10# blackberry. What to do

[kk1224kelley]

So at the beginning of this summer I picked 10 pounds of fresh blackberry. I have never made wine from fresh fruit. I have only made welches wine witch turned out very well I might add
Any suggestions. I read that I should invest in a ph meter being the blackberry is not ideal ph

 

[Deezil]

10 pounds is really only enough for about a gallon of wine

I'd invest in a quart / 3lbs of honey, and make it a melomel

Freeze the berries
Thaw the berries
Mash the berries

Dissolve honey in 1/3 gallon of hot (not boiling) water
Pour hot honey-water mixture over thawing berries
Add pectic enzyme, wait 12 hours
Measure SG/TA/pH
Adjust if needed

Ferment with a mouthfeel or estery based yeast - D-47, 1116, 1122, are nice
Use nutrients appropriate for the yeast strain you choose

Ferment to 1.000 - 1.010 & rack to carboy
Rack off gross lees
Rack off sur lees
Degas & clear
Age
Bottle
Age

Drink