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For every 2 liters volume 1 2 gallon of fresh ripe elderberries add however much wild grapes you wish to add 1 2 cups or so. Mush up all berries after measuring and prior to boiling.
Stir the solution until the sugar has dissolved and the water appears clear.
Dried elderberry wine recipe. This elderberry wine recipe uses either fresh or dried elderberries. Elderberries are often mixed with grapes during the wine making process but elderberry wine can also be made on it s own. This elderberry wine recipe is easy freezing the elderberries helps beforehand.
1 sachet of burgundy yeast or red fruit wine yeast. Bring water to boil with the sugar. Stir the solution until the sugar has dissolved and the water appears clear.
Wash the dried elderberries before putting in a nylon straining bag with several sanitised weights. Tie the bag and put in a fermenting bucket or demi john. After the must has cooled down the next step in this elderberry wine recipe is to add everything but the yeast and campden tablets.
Give the elderberry must a good stir. After doing so crush the campden tablets and stir them into the must. Place the cover on and wait a full 24 hrs before proceeding.
The water is brought to the boil and then the grape concentrate dried elderberries and sugar is stirred in to dissolve the sugar. Once it has cooled citric acid and pectic enzyme is added followed by yeast and yeast nutrient. It should be kept in a warm place and stirred daily for a week and the fruit should be pushed down regularly.
Started 20th may 2012 we have a small packet of dried elderflowers which should make a couple of gallons of a nice white wine. You only need a small quantity of dried elderflowers to make a gallon of wine depending on the recipe anything from 1 2oz to 1oz. Most people like more abv in their wine so shooting for a starting brix of at least 20 is typical.
Also most people prefer to make elderberries into a sweet wine rather than a dry wine. Therefore almost every elderberry wine recipe you find will include large quantities of ingredients that will increase the brix. For every 2 liters volume 1 2 gallon of fresh ripe elderberries add however much wild grapes you wish to add 1 2 cups or so.
Mush up all berries after measuring and prior to boiling. Boil 4 liters 1 gallon of water and set aside 4 cups 1 kilogram of white sugar. Add fresh or frozen fruit to the water and boil for 20 30 minutes.