Thursday, October 14, 2021

Homemade Spiced Pear Wine

 I had three very ripe red Anjou pears in my kitchen. In all honesty, they were past the point that they could be eaten. So.....I decided to try to make spiced pear wine out of them! I added local honey, dark brown sugar, cinnamon, cardamom, and a lot of cloves, and some water. 

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Homemade Blackberry Wine

 I started a small new batch of blackberry wine earlier today. I am trying to learn how to make a drier blackberry wine. The reason that I decided to start more today is that I had some fresh blackberries in my refrigerator with a tiny bit of sugar on them, with a blackberry cobbler possibly in mind, but they fermented, and so I decided to use them for wine! 

Making homemade blackberry and blueberry wine

 On September 29th, I began fermenting two very small bottles of wine: one blackberry and one blueberry. Simple ingredients: the fruit, suga...