making beer and wine or enjoying

[key west chick]

My DD's BF was supposed to get me several bottles of muscadine wine but hasn't been able to get a hold of the guy. I'm so bummed.

 

[Damummis]

Love the wine making.

I have made..... Blueberry, Peach, Rhubarb, Elderberry (favorite), Summer mixed berry, Mead, Peach Mead.
This is the second year doing it.
I want to take a mead recipe and try to substitute the honey with Maple syrup from this years harvest. If anyone has done this I would love some pointers.

 

[JCoogle]

I really want to make some mead next spring.

 

[BarkerChickens]

We make Honey Mead and variation of it (Raspberry, Almond, Hazelnut, Apricot, etc) We also brew beer (porters, various ales, Trippel, etc).
We haven't tried grape wines yet though.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

So...

My son tried his hand at a batch of blackberry wine. He doesn't follow instructions too well. Normally when I start a new endeavor I read everything I can find first. I think he read the first few paragraphs of a book on winemaking...

He got everything into the primary, and then for some reason, put an airlock on it. He left it on the kitchen counter for 5 days (probably around 70 degs most of the time) and didn't bother to check it. Nobody really noticed any vigorous fermentation, but then I don't think anybody was paying attention. Last night I told him he should check on it. We tested it with a hydrometer and it pretty much finished in the primary. .990 on the hydrometer and not a hint of sugar in it, it tastes like a dry blackberry wine... We transferred it to a secondary, with an airlock, and are letting it sit. It is continuing a very slight fermentation and settling out...

Any thoughts on this?

 

[Damummis]

Quote:
It can sit with an air-lock for as long as you like. Just let it do its thing. I noticed with the woodstove making it nice and toasty that one of my wines started to bubble again. Lasted about 2 days. I will let it sit anyway. I don't bottle for at least 6 months.
Your doing fine.