How To Make Homemade Raspberry Wine: Time-Tested Recipe!

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[erikjohnsen]

This is the best possible timing for this video. Yesterday I picked four pounds of wild red and black raspberries to make wine, they’re in the fridge and tonight will be my first attempt.

[jacobanderson]

My little brother will enjoy seeing this, he's been home brewing for years now. He's usually stuck by various types of mead and beer for most of his projects, but he has done some wines in the past.

[B-Reel]

I'm from the Appalachian mountains and my grandma used to make something like this every year. She would use white shine instead of wine but my favorite was the pulp. She would sit it aside, dry it out, and we would sprinkle it over our oats in the morning.

[jasonbagley]

My grandparents had an abundance of black raspberry bushes on their property. I remember helping myself to them every summer, along with the other grandchildren. Black raspberries will always have a special place in my heart.

[bgmaple]

I love the fact that Jon's hands and the utensils are stained that lovely shade of purple. How would someone in the 18th century deal with removing the stain?

[HLBear]

The color of that final wine is gorgeous! I will try this.

[bmolitor]

9:20 - we ferment blackberries over a picking season by putting a layer of bruised berries down in a carboy - when there's an inch or so, put in a layer of brown sugar, and so on. It stops bubbling after a while, so gently decant in November-ish into another carboy and rest a few days, decant again into bottles, and start drinking it.

[boblobster]

Later in the season, apples make an excellent German type wine. Elderberry makes a really good red providing you don't use too many and ferment with grape juice.

[bobjohnson]

The thumbnail is magnificent for reasons obvious

[HrafnirKrumr]

Your videos are a moment of peace for me. This atmosphere of calm and friendly storytelling is what we all lack these days I think.
Thank you for what you are doing! Greetings from Ukraine.

[stonetooth]

Rumor has it John is still washing his hands.

[JonathonPickett]

Thank you for a different approach. Every year I try to make 5 gallons of black raspberry wine by fermenting them with a little added sugar. It is always a very good wine. I’m currently down to 4 bottles but I have 15lbs for another 5 gallons.

[Edminster]

i love the comparisons between cookbooks to see how methodologies were refined and changed over the years !

[TheJollyLlama]

I can only speak to beer brewing but in that the bulk of the fermentation is generally done in three days, for ales at least, and the rest of the time before bottling or kegging is usually used to let any solids settle on the bottom of the fermenter. Seems like Hannah Glass knew how to get the most bang for her buck out of those berries!

[chamberswagner]

This spring I played around with the Raspberry Wine recipe from The Housekeepers Instructor (Schnebbelie 1805) but I wanted to use strawberries. I did what you wanted to do and fermented the strawberries with the sugar (since strawberries are a bit more difficult to juice I think than raspberries and I got more out of macerating them). I let that wine sit for over a month and it is fantastic. It basically tastes a bit like a slightly alcoholic strawberry jam. It really did capture the essence of those early spring berries. But I do want to try it with raspberries as well.

[Angela-hnmb]

This reminds me of making cordials. Very similar techniques. Main difference is not straining off the fruit solids until after it's sat with the alcohol for a few weeks.

[carm]

I've been fermenting, gallon and a half batches of fruit juices, for about a year. Experimenting with different kinds and mixes. Seems like white grape, concord grape, apple and cranberry are ones you can never go wrong with. I've been using SafCider AB-1 yeast for it all. I bottle it in 1 liter Grolsch bottles, they're reusable and don't need to mess with bottle caps.

[subject]

"How to make wine. First get you berrys." Yep got it.

"Then take your wine" my what now?

[seamus]

I will say if you can get like a high strength hard cider it will go good with berries too. Needs to be like 15% abv to start with to last any amount of time.

And to those who don't do alcohol. Sweetened and flavored vinegars are good to and make a really good syrup to flavor water.

[stacilee]

I've been picking black raspberries hard to find recipes thank you!