I am a noob, so please be gentle.
While hunting last week, I found a patch of blue elderberries and brought home enough to make two gallons of juice. I added corn syrup until I got a brix of 20-21 and added the juice of one lemon.
I put it up into two one gallon jugs, added Champagne yeast that was proofed in warm water and honey.
It has been 5 days now and the bottles have died down after a furious 3 days and then a gradual slow down to almost nothing now.
I tasted it and it tastes like a very dry red wine. I do not know my red wines very well, but I do know that it is a one note song.
What should I do now? Do I just bottle it and age it or do I put oak into my jugs and let it sit for a while before I bottle it?
While hunting last week, I found a patch of blue elderberries and brought home enough to make two gallons of juice. I added corn syrup until I got a brix of 20-21 and added the juice of one lemon.
I put it up into two one gallon jugs, added Champagne yeast that was proofed in warm water and honey.
It has been 5 days now and the bottles have died down after a furious 3 days and then a gradual slow down to almost nothing now.
I tasted it and it tastes like a very dry red wine. I do not know my red wines very well, but I do know that it is a one note song.
What should I do now? Do I just bottle it and age it or do I put oak into my jugs and let it sit for a while before I bottle it?