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How to Make Blackberry Wine in 2 Weeks.

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I was told I had to empty the freezer, so out came all the fruit of which was a lot of blackberries.

So I thought I would make a quick version of one of our most popular wine recipes - Blackberry Wine

This method will help you make 6 bottles (that’s 1 gallon or 4.5 litres) of amazing blackberry wine fast. From adding your defrosted or fresh blackberries into your fermenting bucket, to putting the corks in the bottles takes just 2 weeks.

Blackberry wine tastes amazing. Lots of rich dark fruit flavours, smooth, yet slightly dry and nicely balanced with a little sweetness. The yeast adds a light spiciness too.

You will need some basic brewing equipment:

2 fermenting buckets
Long spoon (not wood)
Mashing & Sparging Bag
Hydrometer
Trial jar
Thermometer
Syphon
Jug
Kettle
Wine bottles
Corks
Corker

Ingredients to make 6 bottles (4.5 litres / 1 gallon)
Steriliser

1.36kg (3lb) Blackberries
1.13kg (2 1/2lb) Sugar
Red Wine Yeast - Mangrove Jacks R56
2 pints Boiling water
4 pints cold tap water
1 tsp pectolase
1/2 tsp fermentation stopper
1 campden tablet - crushed
Finings - Clear It

If you want to make a larger quantity just simply scale it up.

If you need any of the equipment or ingredients, you can buy them on our Brewbitz Homebrew website http://www.brewbitz.com

Cheers & Happy Brewing.

11 Comments

@leighmonty13 2 years ago

Looks nice

@darrenwilkinson4348 2 years ago

By the way I had left my fruit to steep for week so to try and exstract as much flavour as I could

@Vidzy445 2 years ago (edited)

Can anyone tell me if I can be using champagne/cava/presecco bottles for my home brew wine? I know screw tops are out but also conscious that the bubblies have screw corks and cages and the neck seems a little narrower to my eye. Will they be ok for normal corking?

@Redfan30 1 month ago

can you do the same method
with plum wine?

@OliverLongfield-Reeve 1 year ago

would it make a difference if you blended the fruit at the beginning?

@darrenwilkinson4348 2 years ago

Clear the freezer lol… been there… trying to do that now..I’ve actually made this… I’d say not as much flavour as I’d like but still ok…I used the fineings and found after a week I opened up and had a vinegar smell…everything was sterilised well so not that …I thought might be the chemical reaction from the fineings..I’ve backsweeted it and been left for 2 weeks and the smell has virtually gone…I’m going to back flavour but never done it…couldn’t find a blackberry cordial so found a blueberry/ blackcurrant one from Belvoir… wish me luck

@yortsemloh1156 5 months ago

My blueberry and muscadine wines both bubbled for at least a week. The blackberry barely bubbled for four days and doesn't smell very good. Hope it isnt ruined.

@juliusseizure3039 2 years ago

Im American, our blackberries ripen at a totally different time than yourn.

I've accumulated enough blackberries for three gallons of wine and I've almost finished the batch.

Meanwhile, I've been collecting more blackberries and I have enough to make 6 gallons. I've bought extra bottles for this upcoming recipe.

The only real difference is the fining agent I use: it's bentonite clay. I don't really know how well it works in comparison to other varieties, perhaps you can advise me on that. Thanks

May your fructose be yeasty.

@Doug-e6g 2 years ago

7.00pm
Can you tell me how much boiling water and cold water I need for the recipe that you are using (5.2lbs of blackberries)
Thank you
Doug

@AmandaMorris-f2h 2 years ago

Hi Can this wine be drunk any earlier? Say after 3months? Thanks

@AmandaMorris-f2h 2 years ago

How does this differ from wine made using a demijohn. I’ve watched both your videos and this one is much easier but wondering how the end result differs. At the moment I just have crazy amounts of blackberries and have never made wine before so the quicker way appeals to me but also wanting to see if wine could be done now (august) and ready for Xmas?