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dz130 · 07-12-2009, 07:33 PM

A friend of mine has a shit-ton of wild raspberries growing on his property. I'd like to try and make some wine using my beer brewing equipment.

Anybody have anything?

BigJohn · 07-13-2009, 06:22 AM

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Originally Posted by dz130

A friend of mine has a shit-ton of wild raspberries growing on his property. I'd like to try and make some wine using my beer brewing equipment.

Anybody have anything?

You could make a raspberry mead, or a raspberry apple cider....

I'm going to assume that you have a hydrometer or refractometer...

How much JUICE in a shit ton?
The simplest recipe would be to get 5 gallons of juice, with as little of the pulp and seeds as possible, into a sanitized 5 gallon carboy, and pitch a good healthy starter of a dry wine yeast.

If you're going to make a mead, probably a good standard mead recipe - adding a pound or 2 of crushed fruit to an already partially fermented mead. You'd want the mead to be pretty far along in the fermentation so that you don't loose all the fruit aroma.

grtrx · 07-13-2009, 07:51 AM

couldn't you do a lambic and add macerated raspberry on the second fermentation?

BigJohn · 07-13-2009, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Apothecary Puff

couldn't you do a lambic and add macerated raspberry on the second fermentation?

You could indeed. Lambic is, however, an acquired taste... you'd typically not do more than just wash the raspberries then, and some would say just toss them in.

Coach · 07-13-2009, 12:38 PM

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Briandg · 07-13-2009, 03:07 PM

Red, or black? if they are black, there will not be enough acidity to make anything like a balanced wine or beer, IMO. Whatever you do, unless you cut them about 1/2 or even more with blackberries, or some other tart base, you will wind up with something cloying and nauseating, like a mogen david concord wine. I don't recall having seen black raspberries used more than a few times in beers and lambics, and never in wine. You can find Framboise liquers.

If I had a shitload of black raspberries available, I would can a shitload of preserves, and maybe bottle some pancake syrup. Black raspberries are a treasure around here, but they can be found in the wild in small, small, quantities. One of the fondest memories I have of being with my daughter was sitting in a utility easement that went through woods near our home, and feeding black raspberries to a box turtle that was traveling past.

Red raspberries don't seem to grow wild here.

I personally think that I prefer the purple domestic varieties above the other types.

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