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A few years agi while visiting a friends farm, he asked me what I was up to I said that I was collecting wild grapes.
"We have some wild grapes over by the abandoned staionhouse across the tracks" he told me. I have been harvesting them since.
I went to find the wild grapes. They were not wild grapes at all but Concord grapes both white and purple. I got 8 pounds of white grapes and 12 pounds of purple. I canned the juice of the purple grape.
I used the white grape to make the drink from a book Ancient Brews, Patrick E. McGovern
I crushed the grapes and let them sit in a closed pail with an air lock for a couple of days. ( When I returned to the station house to get the grapes this year I found a bee yard there, this is what started me on this brew:>)
I used one pound of light DME and 1 pound of honey
5 spruce tips, 2 dryed yarrow blossom and about 1/2 oz. of hops (1/4 oz at 45 min and the rest at) 5 cardamom seeds crushed.and a a pinch of spanish saffron from my daughter who lives in Spain
I boiled the DME eor 35 min. in the last 10 min. I added 1/4 lb. of buckwheat honey and 3/4 lb. of wild flower honey.
I cooled in a with an ice bath and added it to the must in the pail. I used my brew bag and strained it into a primary fermentor
I used ec 1118 yeast.
I will let you know how it turns out.
"We have some wild grapes over by the abandoned staionhouse across the tracks" he told me. I have been harvesting them since.
I went to find the wild grapes. They were not wild grapes at all but Concord grapes both white and purple. I got 8 pounds of white grapes and 12 pounds of purple. I canned the juice of the purple grape.
I used the white grape to make the drink from a book Ancient Brews, Patrick E. McGovern
I crushed the grapes and let them sit in a closed pail with an air lock for a couple of days. ( When I returned to the station house to get the grapes this year I found a bee yard there, this is what started me on this brew:>)
I used one pound of light DME and 1 pound of honey
5 spruce tips, 2 dryed yarrow blossom and about 1/2 oz. of hops (1/4 oz at 45 min and the rest at) 5 cardamom seeds crushed.and a a pinch of spanish saffron from my daughter who lives in Spain
I boiled the DME eor 35 min. in the last 10 min. I added 1/4 lb. of buckwheat honey and 3/4 lb. of wild flower honey.
I cooled in a with an ice bath and added it to the must in the pail. I used my brew bag and strained it into a primary fermentor
I used ec 1118 yeast.
I will let you know how it turns out.
