"Paul E. Lehmann" wrote in message
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Pavel314 wrote:


"Luc Volders" wrote in
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Last year I wrote a web-log entry about
elderberries which drew a lot of attention.

The method I use is as follows:

Pick the berries and pour then into a bucket
with water. The ripe ones will have sugar and
therefore submerge. The unripe ones are lighter
and will float.

Look for photos on my web-log:

http://wijnmaker.blogspot.com/2007/0...on-ik-had.html

There was a lot of contravery about me saying
to boil the berries.
Elderberries have sambunigrin which may cause a
lot of trouble so I will always boil them.

Me port-style recipe is also on the same
web-log page.

Besides all this:
I make about 20 to 30 batches every year from
differet fruit and ederberry wine is still the
best.

luc


Luc,

Very nice website, thanks for the reference. I
see you make rose wine; I make mead flavored
with rose petals, about one quart of fresh
petals per gallon of must.

Paul

I have some rose petals in the freezer from last
year. Have you ever made mead with rose petals
stored in this manner?

Yes. Most of my berries and petals end up in the freezer until ready to use.
Nature doesn't obey my schedules, unfortunately, so I use the freezer to
coordinate things.

I have a batch from last year which combines Concord grapes, elderberries
and blackberries, all of which ripened at different times. I suppose I could
have made three separate batches and blended them after secondary
fermentation, but it seemed much easier to freeze the first two until the
final fruit was ripe.

Paul