Different Unique Wines.
One day at the kitchen table Dr. Wetbrain and Harold were sampling a bottle of home-made wine that the Doctor made.
“That was the best wine I have ever tried!”, Harold wide-eyed said.
“Birch Sap Wine and I held back on the sugar. Mind you tapping Birch trees is like tapping Maple trees for sap there is a little bit of a chore involved. Especially in the cold winter months of February and March.” Dr. Wetbrain declared.
Ingredients of the Birch Sap Wine is –
4.5 liters of birch tree sap
250 ml of white grape concentrate
1.25 kg. of sugar
2 tbs. of citric acid
Pack of wine yeast
Directions to make this great Birch Sap Wine.
In a very large pot bring birch sap, grape concentrate and sugar to a boil. Remove pot from the heat, add citric acid, stir until sugar is dissolved. Cool then apply the pack of wine yeast.
Cover the cooled pot loosely with a cheese cloth or towel. Don’t touch it for 10 days.
Siphon into a large wine fermentation jar. I think they are all large! Allow to ferment for 3 months. Drink and be merry with the greatest wine ever.
Homemade Elderberry Wine
Elderberries are way too bitter to eat raw, also will make you sick from their toxins. Diarrhea and vomiting, neat things like this. But Elderberries make awesome wine.
The first time I made Elderberry wine was in the 80’s with my buddy Dennis and his 70-year-old dad who was our wine making mentor. We made a 10-gallon batch!
Driving up a logging road and around one of corners we came across bushy tree all by itself. Filled with ripe Elderberries. Dennis and I filled any container like empty beer cases that we could find. We took all these berries to his dad’s basement and made wine.
Unfortunately, we put a tad more sugar then requested. OK a lot more. Never mind the 6-month fermentation period. We were sampling at 3 months, and a 20-ounce glass would get you pissed drunk. Yeah, too much sugar, but great tasting. Like drinking juice.
Dandelion Wine
This homemade wine is pretty good. You must harvest the Dandelion flowers at full spring bloom. Only 2 quarts of flowers for 1 gallon of wine. Best part is the fermentation duration is only 1 week.
Homemade wine can be made from any natural product such as fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, rhubarb, flowers, watermelons and tomatoes. All are a hit and miss. Sometimes a wine experiment turns out great, and sometimes not so much. Trial and error.
Few other unique homemade wines.
Jalapeno wine – Never tried, might be hot.
Honeysuckle wine – The flower pods do hold a lot of juice.
Tomato wine
Chocolate wine – Too sweet.
Crab wine – What?! Must be a Newfoundland thing.
“Let’s try my safe cranberry wine Harold”, Dr. Wetbrain asked.