Creating a queen annes lace recipe

[Floralfallon]

What in everyones opinions would queen annes lace best resemble, sunflower petals or lavender flowers? Debating on how many quarts per gallon to use of them.

 

[Floralfallon]

So far the recipe is as follows: 1 gallon water
6 cups very tightly packed queen annes lace flowers, trimmed off the center green part(1 grocrie bag full of tops before cleaning off green middles)
6 cups white sugar
1teaspoon nutmeg
1 cinimon stick broken
Boiled water and sugar mixture and poured over my bag holding fresh flowers and spice
Will add
1/4 tsp tannen
1/2 tsp acid blend
1:2 tap pectic enzyme
1t tsp yeast energizer
When cool.

Will pitcg yeast and add to primary tommrrow and squeeze bag.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Make sure you've got Queen Anne's Lace & not hemlock.
Regards, GF.

 

[Floralfallon]

I do! I made a jam earlyer in the week, no deaths. I took a wild foraging class last year. But thank you for looking out for me

 

[Floralfallon]

Today after a noght of cooling i added
1/4tsp liquid tannen
1/2 tsp acid blend
1/2 tsp pectic enzyme
1 tsp yeast energizer
1 crushed campden tablet and stired my heart out for about 2 minutes. "Tonight" at 12am (technically tomrrow) i will hydrate and then add my yeast. Im going to use half a packet of champaigne for this wine as its a light wine and i think champaigne yeast will go well with it!

 

[Floralfallon]

Very frothy today when stired and bag squeezed.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

What do Queen Anne's Lace flowers taste like?
Regards, GF.

 

[WVMJ]

You didnt add any of the root to boost the flavors? WVMJ

 

[Floralfallon]

Raw they taste like a slightly peppery carrot, cooked with sugar they taste like kandied lemon carrots in a sense. Its ynlike anyother flavor. I didnt have access to the roots as i only asked the property owner if i could cut the carrot tops

 

[Floralfallon]

Stired and squeezed today, froth died down abit but fermentation still happining.

 

[Floralfallon]

Squeezed bag and stired. Thinking in 3 days ill remove pulp and transfer to carboy. Will update then

 

[Floralfallon]

I lied, the flowers today looked subpar and when things start looking deteriorated i temove them. Call it hasty call it cautious. I removed flowers and racked to carboy, its a beautifull pink and after only 3 hours the airlock is going crazy. Now to let it sit forever.

 

[Floralfallon]

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[Floralfallon]

Queen annes lace looking good and at .990 sg for past 2 days, will stabalize in about a week

 

[alaskanaturally]

What was the SG when you added the yeast?