Posts Tagged ‘huckleberry wine’

How to Harvest Huckleberries | Garden Guides

How to Harvest Huckleberries. If you love fresh huckleberries, prepare yourself to work for them. In rare instances you may discover some in your grocer’s …

Life on the Outer Coast–Huckleberry Wine

By Natural History of Sitka Sound

Back to the wine; I used 4 lbs of frozen red huckleberries (Vaccinium parvifolium) and blueberries (V. ovalifolium [honest, it was a single species]). I didn’t keep track of the ratio of berry types, but it was mostly red hucks. …

READ FULL STORY

CRUSH 3 quarts (about 4 lbs or slightly less) of wild huckleberries in large container

ADD 1 to 1.5 gallons water

Cover loosely, store in cool, dark place for two weeks
(STIR DEEPLY 2 – 3 TIMES DAILY!)

When solutions gets VERY purple (about 2 weeks):

* Strain out berries
* Add 1 to 2 pounds of sugar (about 2 to 4.5 cups) to solution
* Transfer into jar/water trap
* Ferment for 3 to 6 months
* (Make sure water does not evaporate out!)

TIPS:

* More sugar for sweeter wine
* Less sugar for dryer wine
* Ferment at cooler temps, takes longer, but better flavor
* Ferment at wamer temps, quicker to drinking stage, but lower quality

Enjoy!