I got some Muscadines free.

[myakkagldwngr]

A friend of my daughters sent me directions to a house in town that had muscadines growing on a fence going to the birds.
They said they would rather someone use them and not have them fall on the ground like last year.
I ended up with 37 pounds and they taste pretty sweet. If I had taken a ladder with me, I could have gotten another 20 pounds from parts of the vine that had climbed up an orange tree. Hard to haul a ladder on a motorcycle though.
I've searched the posts and as a general rule of thumb see that with muscadines I should use 5 to 6 pounds per gallon.
What suggestions do you have for my first batch of real grape?

 

[myakkagldwngr]

After washing them up and then crushing them in two pulp bags and the SG was 1.061. Sure is a lot higher than the 1.02 my black berries averaged.
So they are in a plastic primary with some campden tablets.
After you crush the grapes, what color is the juice in the beginning? I have to say this is a little on the greenish side, but the berries were dark purple and ripe to the point some would fall off the vines easily when you touched them.

 

[Sacalait]

The finished product will be a rose'.