Homegrown Wines

[HawleyFarms]

This is my first year making wine, but somehow I ended up with the following:

5g chokecherry
3g zucchini
2g highbush cranberry
6g blackberry
8g hard cider from our trees
2g barberry
2g crabapple
1g pumpkin
1.5g white grape from naturalized vines

I think I lost control.

How did the barberry turn out for you? Found a massive barberry bush growing wild today and thought of picking a bucket full for wine. Not finding a lot of info on using them for much more than jelly.

 

[AkTom]

I grow crabapples, grapes, blackberries, rhubarb, elderberries, and so on.

I pick chokecherries, strawberries, blueberries, apples, etc- whatever I can find.

Those are some of my favorite wines.

Isn't that a song???

 

[Agate]

How did the barberry turn out for you? Found a massive barberry bush growing wild today and thought of picking a bucket full for wine. Not finding a lot of info on using them for much more than jelly.

Hard to say... It's sitting semi-forgotten and unloved in the basement waiting to be bottled after two years. I really should get around to doing something with it. Got a big crop again from a bush I'm trying to eradicate - probably will add them to a sour beer this time though.

 

[Mismost]

Man...I feel like a slacker now! All I have done is plum and prickly pear wine and they are young, jury is still out on those.

 

[jonereb]

I'm making 2 gallons of muscadine wine from two homegrown vines in my backyard. I planted a 3rd vine in late September and will add a 4th vine in November in order to increase my production in the coming years. I also made several pints of muscadine jelly which is out of this world.