Making Wine

[Hippie]

Good luck on your mead, Martina. I have yet to taste one I like.

 

[MedPretzel]

It will be a while before I can start the mead. Sorry. I was hoping earlier too.

 

[Hippie]

Oh, you will get around to it, I have a very long list of wines I want to get around to making.

 

[MedPretzel]

Do tell!!





I hope chrysanthemum is on the list!

 

[Hippie]

Uh, I could never do flower wines as well as you. I wanna do a pear, chardonnay style, for one.

 

[MedPretzel]

I have a feeling you simply would not want to waste a carboy for mum wine. I can understand that, since your wines (muscadine in particular) are so fancy.


I would like to do pear. I can see it now, "A Partridge in a Pear Tree Wine" and have the Partridge family on the label. Wouldn't that be just groovy?


I did peach (btw, turning out to be quite good), and my new obsession is going to be....... MAYBE.... blueberry wine. I hope to go to a U-Pick place this spring. But that's a long ways away. I still have a little stevia (for 1 gallon of stevia wine).... I still have enough mums for a 5 gallon wine... And I think I also have marigolds in the deep freezer somewhere. Yikes, I have to get that out of there soon!

 

[AAASTINKIE]

med, did you ever taste blueberry wine, I haven't but I would like to make some with wild blueberrys, and I might try some strawberry wine end of june is when we pick here, I was thinking of trying to put some banana's in the stawberry, any thoughts on that?

 

[MedPretzel]

Do a search of the forum and you will find I posted it elsewhere. I don't want to abuse the forum for frivolous posts.





But no, I have never tasted blueberry. It is one I hope to do soon.

 

[Hippie]

Yes, Martina, sounds quite groovy indeed. I will also be making blueberry wine sometime this year, so says a friend who has in-laws in Louisiana with blueberry bushes. He gets half my batches when he supplies the fruit such as wild blackberry and peach that he has both of.

 

[MedPretzel]

Do you mash up the blueberries? I'm sorry, I have not looked it up yet in my book, but I imagine that you would have to do so.


Would you make it a heavier wine?

 

[Hippie]

Yes, freeze for about a month, then thaw completely and mash. No, I would not use more than 3 pounds to a gallon (of finished wine desired)because of the acid.

 

[MedPretzel]

Thank you again -- you are a huge help, as always.

 

[Hippie]

Sure, what else would I do all night? My job?

 

[MedPretzel]

That is a thought.

 

[Hippie]

Oh. Ain't you something. I deserved that.

 

[MedPretzel]

I meant it in jest, dear one.

 

[Hippie]

How quaint. So did I. Surely you jest?

 

[MedPretzel]

Well, now I'm getting confused. Am I jesting that I'm jesting?

 

[Hippie]

Well that was easy.

 

[MedPretzel]

Yeah, I know... I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer.