Making Blueberry Wine

   

Blueberry wine is delicious and contains important nutrients that are only found in blueberries. Blueberry wine is easy to make and guests will love it’s natural fruit flavor.

If you choose, you can use cranberries, bilberries or Saskatoon berries in lieu of blueberries for this recipe.

Ingredients

· 5 cups blueberries.

· 2 teaspoons acid blend.

· 5 cups white sugar.

· ½ teaspoon pectic enzyme.

· 2 campden tablets.

· 1 teaspoon nutrients.

· Spring or purified water.

· 1 package wine yeast.

Note: All ingredients can be purchased at most brew-your-own stores.

Method

· Crush blueberries.

· Add 12 cups spring or purified water.

· Add all ingredients with the exception of the wine yeast.

· Mix well until sugar is dissolved.

· Let stand overnight.

Note: Be certain specific gravity is between 1.090 and 1.095.

· Sprinkle wine yeast over the mixture.

· Stir well.

· Let stand and stir well daily for 5 days.

· Strain and squeeze out the juice.

· Place in a secondary fermentor.

· Add water to the correct volume.

· Attach airlock.

Note: If you wish the wine to be dry, rack in 3 weeks. Continue to rack every three months for a year.

Bottle.

Note: If you wish the wine to be sweet, rack at 3 weeks.

· Add ½ cup white sugar that’s been dissolved in one cup of wine.

· Stir gently.

· Place back into the secondary fermentor.

· Repeat every 6 weeks until fermentation doesn’t occur when sugar is added.

· Rack every 3 months for a year.

· Bottle.

Note: Wine can be stored for up to one full year once it is bottled.