bramble alcohol

scalas

Hi I quite fancy picking some brambles this year and turning them into a nice alcoholic beverage. Has anyone got any recommendations and recipes? Many thanks:rotfl:

Farway

Balckberry wine, mmm, made it years ago, one of the better ones IMO

Sory no recipe to hand, but no doubt others [and Google] have

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Not that I drink (so I'm not probably the best person to answer you) , but I would suggest, unless you're confident with brewing and distilling and all that stuff, just bung the fruits into a load of halfway sensible vodka and leave to macerate (I think that's the word). Or turn into a sweet, sticky syrup and use that as a mixer. Gives you more choice.

brownhandbag

one third berries to one third sugar to one third gin/vodka/brandy will work. All in a bottle and shake daily until sugar is gone. Then this is the hard part....leave until Xmas!

scalas

:rotfl:many thanks for your replys

tripod2000

I'd not risk natural yeasts as the time they take to start up can lead to infection. I'd use some all purpose yeast for a dry wine, bread yeast for a low alcohol (6%) sweeter wine or if Brettano Myceas is really your thing then I'd suggest looking at wyeast lab who produce some "lambic" yeast strains.

Penelope_Penguin

Sorry, but I've had to delete a post as it contravenes this rule:

Take care over copyright. Use excerpts and links rather than copying long text. This site asserts copyright on all comments posted on the board.

Links to recipes here and here.

Penny. x

Smoffi

Sorry I do apologise... I did not read the rules

Rosamundi

Another recipe site to try for wine is:
http://www.brew-magic.co.uk/Wine_recipes/wine.aspx
as you can recalculate the recipe dependant upon how much fruit you have

Lord_Gardener

Personally I'd prefer a nice Blackberry crumble with custard!!