Submitted 1 month ago by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
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I already don’t know what’s in it, few varieties of currants, apricots, now I added red and white grapes and some other things added during last two months I don’t remember.
It got this overpowering red colour (probably from the currants) that stains everything so that’s the colour it will have at the end, the smell is mostly fruity, little bit too much of a mix of everything.
So half of the jar is done another half is waiting for the fall season fruits.
Almost all this stuff gives red. Grapes skins remaining in fluid is the way they make red wine, the color of grapes does not even matter much.
This must be quite tasty. Filling jars with berries myself now, although I sort them. Mostly weizen berry beer this year for me.
Yes but I am still bit surprised that even the oranges we throw there just for fun got red.
And single berries macerates are good too, I did few years back something with currants and this year cherries in rum (simpler than canning them).
I didn’t look that much at the Belgian beers but I thought that they go in fresh. Maybe I can try some Belgian style with cherries (in rum).
Is this all stuff you've been able to forage/harvest yourself?
My garden, granddad’s garden, what neighbors gave us…
When you have a tree or berry bush you get lots of fruit to deal with it. So it is the stuff that we got tired to make jams from or the harvest was so small that it didn’t make much sense to use it otherwise.
That sounds delightful! I know what you mean about the jams, I get a steady supply of it just because my brother's friend makes it and has so much that he has no idea what to do with it. Maybe I should get him some yeast
pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Sorry for the newb question, but is this infusing alcohol or some other process? I’ve got about 20 plum trees and a prolific peach tree that I want to try to do some brewing with.
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Make melomels!
plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Yes, it is just lots of different kind of fruit thrown in 80% ethanol.
It is fun to do it on small scale, like one jar is enough, you will probably need to process it differently on that scale.
Here most people with that amount of trees just distill it to make “slivovice” but I heard that people try different things.