Featherhat
Knackered old p...head
Sorting out my freezer earlier I came across a small bag of elderberries, the last of this years crop from my garden. Only 192g. Not enough to make even one bottle. So, the plan is: steep them for a day or two in a litre of boiling water with a half tsp of pectolase and half a ct then strain off into 2 litres of rgj. I'm thinking that the elderberries will add colour and tannin to what would otherwise be a fairly light wine. May need to add some acid as well but I'll sample the must before I add the sugar (about 850-875g). This is, very much, an experiment. I have mixed elderberries, in about the same proportion, with blackberries to make a very palatable and easy drinking wine,the last gallon of which is maturing for Christmas, and I've just bottled a brew made from blackberries, elderberries and lidl's cranberry and raspberry juice, the first taste of which was a bit disappointing. Anybody else tried anything similar?