Redbud wine (and other floral wines)

[Aaron C. Rider]

Howdy

Anyone ever made wine from redbud flowers? Asking for a friend. Here in central Pennsylvania, the flowers are abundant, especially this spring.

My winemaking experience is very basic: I've made hard cider before, and am making dandelion wine for the first time now. My friend has a bunch of what he's calling "redbud extract" or "redbud tea." You get the idea. Just boiled water poured over the flowers. He made much of it into jelly, but doesn't have time in the next few days to make more. We figured maybe we could still try making wine out of it. If not, I'll make the jelly myself, even though I strongly prefer fruit jams. But I digress.

Even if you don't have a specific recipe for redbud wine, does anyone have some kind of generic flower wine recipe that I could try to adapt?

 

[jtratcliff]

Jack Keller was the wine GURU for making wine out of anything... check the Wayback copy of his site: winemaking: Making Wines from Wild Plants

plenty of flower wine recipes there...

 

[Lampy]

Resurrecting this thread:
I was scrolling Facebook and saw a recommended post about making redbud jelly. This got me to thinking about redbud wine! So I adapted my wineberry wine recipe and made up a small (~½gal) batch with 0.94lb flowers, 0.75lb honey, 0.2lb sugar, ½tsp yeast nutrient, a black tea bag, and one lemon's juice.
The color of the flowers is great, but once steeped the resulting must is fairly muted. I took some leftover must and diluted it with additional water and lemon juice, which made it look slightly more pink.

Edit:
I think that the color is pH dependent. I took some of the pink leftover must (right) and added a bit of baking soda. This turned it yellow-green (left).