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That's fair, I'm a huge wine fan personally. There's tons of beer varieties you can make with blackberries too, like lambic, or cider if that's close enough. Perhaps up your alley if you really like this blackberry wine but prefer beer, maybe it can be a compromise for something you and your...

nice, I've definitely seen a lot of blackberry lambic going around

A very friendly neighbor graciously let me harvest their grape vine since they weren't using it, which is awesome. However, since they weren't taking care of it, the grapes have some pretty widespread powdery white mildew on them. I washed them with water before freezing them but it's difficult...

Awesome! I'm about to bottle my batch of blackberry wine too. Neat that we're doing it around the same time, makes sense since it's so seasonal.

This was an extraordinarily weird batch. the answer to your question is "no clue", i didn't bother with gravity readings, but it's definitely a lot, and it definitely feels distinctly different from normal alcohol, and also smells unlike even spirits, smells and tastes exactly like descriptions...

This is NOT about distilling. I do not want to distill anything. In my previous batch of blackberry wine, I foolishly didn't add pectic enzyme, and it was also just generally unstable, and it seems that the high pectin content of the blackberries made a bit more methanol than is paletable (yet...

I tried moving my 5 gal batch of blackberry wine to secondary fermentation in 5 separate 1 gal carboys, it's a little over a week later and it looks like one of them has nearly completely stopped fermentation (though it was the runt, only filled it to about two thirds of a gallon), and one of...

I aught to have been clearer, I don't like the taste of hops and I'm very bitter sensitive. I'm in the roughly 25% of people that literally taste more things than the rest, those things usually being specific compounds that make bitterness. I've had low bitterness hopped beers before and while...

Loving all of these responses in general, I now know more about hops. I'll take the advice and look into hefeweizen and grisette. I assumed gruit may be up my ally but based on the responses maybe not, is it bitter after all? I've never had any so I don't know. I've thought about doing this, a...

Just made a few batches of sweet wine from the wild blackberries that literally grow like weeds around here in Washington. Any others that have done the same? If so, would appreciate an exchange of tips / experience. And if not—for shame! Those berries are so yummy and they're being wasted at...

I've only made wine before, wanna try making beer. Any helpful simple guides on beer making for the wine maker? Any nuance that may not be obvious on how the two are different? Also, the reason I want to try beer making is because I hate 90% of the beer out there because I have a very sensitive...