Food & Wine Ground >> First Fruit Wine (pics)

I realized I didn't take enough pics but here are a few.

First I bought a crap ton of blackberries.


Next I really clean out the food grade plastic primary fermenter. I have a jumbo nylon straining bag and place it inside the bucket. While doing this I've started 2 gallons of water to boil while allowing another 2 to rest.


Next, start putting the blackberries in the nylon straining bag one container at a time and start hand smashing them as well as possible. This takes some time. I ended up with about 1.5 gallons of blackberry goop.


Now I take the boiling water and add crap ton of sugar. Once it's dissolved you add that to the bucket. The bag has been closed and tied off. This will make it easy to remove the fruit when the time comes. This will set the color etc. I add a total of 3 more gallons of water for a total of 5 gal water and about a gallon of blackberry juice/stuff.

As soon as that is done I add the acid blend, tannin, and yeast. I put an airlock on top and allow the mixture to come down in temperature. Then I will add the campden and pectic enzyme and allow it to sit for a week or so stirring once a day.