Break down the blackberries in the secured straining bag to release the juices. Take the prepared blackberries and put them in the straining bag, inside the sanitised fermenting bucket.
2 tsp Acid Blend (use just prior to bottling according to taste).
What You’ll Need To Make Blackberry Wine – Makes 1 gallon / 4.5 litres When you are ready to make the wine you simply need to defrost the blackberries in your fermenting bucket. A strainer can be used to scoop out the bad blackberries and the remainder can be drained and picked through by hand.Īs blackberries are a soft skinned fruit they will be ready to make wine with straight away, however, you may freeze them if you are foraging so that you don’t have to collect all the fruit at once. The majority of the bad fruit or insect damaged berries will float on the surface whilst the good blackberries will sink to the bottom. A simple trick to hasten this process is to place them in a bowl of cold water. If you are foraging blackberries then picking through the bad form the food is imperative. Of course, fresh fruit will be fine but supermarkets often have them early before they are fully ripe to give them a longer shelf life. If you are using shop bought blackberries then I would suggest frozen blackberries as the first choice as they are likely to be riper and have a higher sugar content. These variations mean it is generally a good idea to pick your blackberries from multiple different bushes or locations so you end up with a good blend of sweet, tart and juice levels. The tastes will also be slightly different with some more tart and sour others slightly sweeter. Blackberries on one bush may be large and plump, another bush they may be small and tightly packed. If you are foraging for blackberries to make this wine you will probably notice that different bushes contain slightly different fruit. Blackberries also have a fairly high level of tannin which lifts the flavour and gives the finished wine a robustness. They can range from tart to sweet and a blend is preferable but the flavour of the wine can be easily tweaked with acid blend.
What You’ll Need To Make Blackberry Wine – Makes 1 gallon / 4.5 litresīlackberries are great for winemaking, they grow freely in the wild and are full of flavourful juice and sugar.
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