Mulberry Wine

[Wade E]

I already have a Cream Ale on tap here. Gaudet, that was a weird movie!

 

[gaudet]

Thats the first thing that came to mind when you described what your hickory trees are doing.......

Yes it was a weird movie

 

[fivebk]

I racked my Mulberry wine today.


Here are some pics.

 

[gaudet]

You are making me want to open a bottle of my precious mulberry....

No Must resist

Looking good Bob

 

[fivebk]

I racked my Mulberry wine about a week ago and added medium toast american oak spirals. I will stir and sample it in about 3 weeks

BOB

 

[Brewgrrrl]

YUM! Your wine looks GREAT! I made a tinsy 1gal batch last year using the recipe from "Making Wild Wines and Meads" and I was blown away by how awesome it was. This is a great type of fruit wine.

 

[fivebk]

My first batch of mulberry is still in a carboy waiting to get bottled. It has aged rather nicely. My daughter has started collecting mulberries for this years batch and came out yesterday with 45 lbs of berries. We cleaned, bagged and froze them. IT ONLY TOOK 7 HRS. Am I crazy or what!!!!! Today I picked, cleaned, bagged and froze 42 lbs of montmorency pie cherries.

I think I need to see a therapist

BOB

 

[Wade E]

Yes, collecting these berries is lots of fun. Did you two find lots of little green bugs on the berries. I had so many that I had to float the berries twice before freezing them.

 

[gaudet]

We don't need no stinking therapy...............

We need an intervention. Bob, ship those berries and cherries to Gaudet in New Orleans. I'm here to help.....

Don't mind the fact I juiced 36#'s of blackberries two days ago, I went out and picked almost 40#'s of blueberries today. I still have to juice the mulberries I picked earlier this season. Don't have a tally on those pound wise yet.........

 

[fivebk]

Wade, we did not have many bugs on them at all. A few ants and an occasional spider. We did have alot of twigs and leaves though. We put down tarps and collected them that way.

Guadet, I just wouldn't feel right shipping them and I don't think it would be a good idea to deliver them personally because then there might be drinkin and storytellin and who knows what else

BOB

 

[xanxer82]

Bob and Gaudet inspired me to look up the recipe in my copy of Making Wild Wines and Meades. Last night Me Tristen and Kat spent about 45 minutes collecting mulberries from our single tree in the yard. We ended up with about 2lbs. There are tons more berries still on the tree that just aren't ripe yet. I just tossed them in freezer bags and froze them since we hand picked (purple fingers and all). We hope to get enough to make 3 gallons this year.
So, Bob, how's your mulberry coming along? Was it hard to get fermenting? I think tomorrow I'll test out my refrectometer on any ripe berries out there.

 

[fivebk]

Last year was my first attempt at making mulberry wine. I made it from frozen and then thawed berries. This year I have a steam juicer so I decided to steam juice the berries and then I will be able to compare the difference between the two. I also added oak to my first batch ( which I am still not sure was a good idea ) so this batch will probably go unoaked.

BOB

 

[xanxer82]

Have you opened any with the oak?

 

[gaudet]

Ok Bob, as long as you think you can handle it. Just remember we're here for you(r) fruit

I didn't oak mine last season. I plan on a 6 gallon batch if I have enough fruit. I might split it out into 2 three gallon batches and oak one of them this year, but I really enjoyed it without the oak. But I do think it would add a nice dimension to the flavor of that wine. Perhaps a comparative swap is in order Bob.

 

[fivebk]

Gaudet, Sorry for not responding sooner. I just bottled my Mulberry wine earlier this week. It spent 1 year in a 5 gallon carboy before I decided it should be bottled. I now have 3.75 gallons of mulberry juice canned with several gallon bags awaiting the steam juicer.

I would enjoy doing a comparative swap. Mine needs some time to get over bottle shock and I would not send a bottle untill the weather cools down some. We have had a long stretch of hot, humid days. 95 - 100 with heat indexes of 116 degrees. can't ship anything in that kind of weather ( might be boiling by the time it got there )

Let me know what you think and maybe we can work something out later this year.

BOB

 

[gaudet]

How are you liking that steam juicer Bob?

I agree, we can wait until Oct or Nov and then do a swap. Down here, the heat its almost unbearable.

 

[fivebk]

I love it!!!!!! best investment I have made so far!!

BOB

 

[gaudet]

It's a wonderful thing. Btw I racked and stabilized my mulberry yesterday. Tasted a drop or two and I'm thinking is going to be at least as good as last years batch.

 

[fivebk]

How about some pics????

BOB

 

[xanxer82]

I have my mulberry in a gallon jug. It's just finishing up fermentation.
Going to stabilize it sometime next week.