Home Brewing: Who'd've thought it?

Here we go with the 'Who'd've thought it?' recipe AKA Blackberry wine

Ingredients

• Blackberries 4lb
• Sugar 3lb
  
• Water
  
• Yeast Nutrient
  
• Pectic Enzyme

If you find any maggots remove them. They don't add to the wine very well!

Pop the blackberries into a plastic bucket and mash them up. When that's done pour over boiling water and stir well. Once it's lukewarm add the pectic enzyme.

After a day add the yeast and nutrient. Cover the bucket and stir each day for four to five days

Strain the must through some netting or muslin onto the sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Pour into a fermenting jar, fill to shoulder and fit an air lock. Any spare must can be kept in a small bottle also with air lock or cotton wool plug.

When it's stopped foaming over the top of the jar add the spare must to base of neck

Leave until clear then rack