Racked batch one today by siphoning it from the car boy to the fermentation bucket, cleaning and sanitizing the carboy, then siphoning back. Smelled like dirty socks, but the taste on siphoning wasn’t bad at all – very light. Added about 1 cup of water.
I began a new must today. A 6 gallon batch with a mix of berries from here on Barber Pond as well as the Schenkar patch. It’s a bit light on the juice. I had too much for another gallon but only, maybe 10 or 12 pounds of berries. Either the wind or critters took [...]
Transferred first batch from fermenter to carboy. Used mouth and length of hose only to discover how auto siphon worked after. Had nearly a pint of extra fluid. Put some in quart jar in refrigerator to use to top off during future transfers. Specific gravity around 1.0 but had trouble reading meter as it kept [...]
Smashed berry bag a bit, stirred liquid. SG – 1.105 (before addition of yeast) Added a packet of Red Star Montrashet yeast to batch one today.
It took me two days to pick the 6lbs of blackberries. Using my one gallon kit and the recipe from the Midwest Homebrew company written by Raymond Massaccesi in 1976, I started my first batch of blackberry wine. 6 lbs fresh blackberries 7 pts water (from my Pownal spring) 2ΒΌ lb sugar (a mix of [...]