How To Make Homemade Blueberry Wine! 

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I didn’t realise it was such a long process! I just enjoyed getting some when I was allowed 🤣

Hey man....I made one batch a cherry wine a couple years ago...it came out tasting like cough medicine hahaha...never gave it another go but its on my list! Oh man...those yeast love to eat that sugar...when fermentation is done though...there's none left so no sweetness at all. Like Eli said...sugar in....ETOH and CO2 out hahaha! Have a great day!

They look amazing bottled up brother. Great job 👍

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lol...why wait for the weekend??? Thanks for stopping by mam :-)

Howdy! Nah...I haven't tinkered with mead yet...sugar is SO much cheaper than honey haha! Yea...she's gonna blow right over me here in bout 24 hours...just part of the coast life :-) Thanks for visiting!

@@CruzesLouisianaOutdoors stay safe my friend - living in Florida i know what you are fixing to go through.

@@OutdoorAdventureswithShawn Thanks buddy...all buckled in :-)

@@CruzesLouisianaOutdoors the storm has gotten worse, please please get to safety - prayers for you and your family

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Praying for their family!

Thank you! I got on here to make sure they were ok. Prayers for him and his family! 🙏

@@migratorygame7400 I'm hoping they are okay also

Howdy y'all....hope all is well and thanks for the kind words! All good over in my area....lots of damage but nothing we can't rebuild :-) An extended camping trip for sure! They saying 8 weeks on electricity...and no running water yet but hopefully they'll get that worked out soon! Y'all take care!

@@CruzesLouisianaOutdoors glad to hear your all ok!!!!!

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Hey Mr. Paul...appreciate you coming by! Well....not sure about all that lol...but I do like to tinker :-) Yessir we bout to get a pretty decent blow here in Lake Charles in the next few hours! Take care

Cruze's Louisiana Outdoors Oh my! Y’all be safe down there. We have friends in Churchpoint also. Got all of y’all in our prayers. Blessings to you

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hahaha...I have a bottle or 10 with your name on em buddy :-)

Cruze's Louisiana Outdoors don’t let Laura have em!!!😂

Ooooooo I’ll pour em all down my gullet bf she gets a single drop 😂

Hey Dan....thanks for stopping by buddy! We love our homemade wine for sure :-)

Why did ya get out of it? It is kinda a pain...especially when you can go to the store and get a bottle for under $5 haha!

Cruze's Louisiana Outdoors it was easy to buy cases of grapes back east. Not so much here in Alberta, so I just got out of it. 🍷

Hey brother...its pretty darn easy....the yeast just do their thing :-) Oh yea...actually there is enough natural yeast on the blueberry or fruit skins to start fermentation and they would reproduce rapidly...the question would be how much alcohol tolerance do they have...maybe they would just ferment to like 4% alcohol and then die? Its a variable to consider. The beauty of 'bought' yeast are that they are reproduced for very specific alcohol % tolerances so can withstand a higher concentration.....whew I rattled on there for a bit haha

@@CruzesLouisianaOutdoors Thank you I was wondering because I knew people made it before you could buy the yeast .

Hey brother...thanks for stopping by and the kind words! We are on an extended camping trip down in my area for sure....but I just so happen to like camping (no electricity, water, etc.) so I'm good :-) Have a great day!

@@CruzesLouisianaOutdoors Great to hear you are well. It is unfortunate not to have electricity or water and it will take some time I guess. Every good wish and looking forward to seeing you back posting again. Keep well. Would you believe it, we are going to get the tail-end of that storm here. However it will be heavy rain only not wind thankfully.

Howdy! Hmmmmm....11% alcohol seems to be the sweet spot where neither the drinkers nor the wine snobs yell at me haha....I try to get a strong batch and a weak batch at any one time :-) We have no shortage of wine that's for sure! Thanks for dropping by...have a great day!

@@CruzesLouisianaOutdoors Yeah I'm pretty sure 11% is good. Wine snobs LOL. I do feel like I fall in the middle. I don't necessarily want to be drop dead drunk, but I don't swirl the wine in the glass either. I'm a sweet wine drinker. That can sometimes raise eyebrows. But I don't care. I like what I like.

@@HappyPlaceCamping Pffffft I know for sure you are a wine swirling, cork sniffing, bottle wafting wine snob!!!! hahahaha

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lol...I wish I could make a 10lb bass bite my hook :-) Thanks for stopping by brother...have a great day!

Hey man thanks for checking in! Ooooo....the big swing has some serious issues that's for sure....not sure if I'll fix her or not...maybe :-) Have a great day!

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Yummy good :-) Have a great day!

Good deal man...I enjoy it! Have a good one!

Howdy...thanks for visiting! You sure can make wine from bottled juice...just make sure its as 'natural' as possible as the preservatives and chemicals they put in most of those bottled drinks with ruin the taste of the wine. Thanks for visiting hope we helped :-)

@@CruzesLouisianaOutdoors Do I use the same format of the products you used in the bottle juice, forgot to ask you and sorry to bother you!

@@spitfirered Howdy....hmmmmmm...my guess is the recipe if probably way different using bottle juice...just because the sugar content will be different....maybe acid levels...etc. You should be able to find a recipe for that on-line though! Good luck :-)

Thanks buddy :-)

Gonna be good here in a few months for sure :-) Have a great day!

Yessir....yummy good :-)

lol....I prefer my wine at bout 17% so that tastes more like vodka hahaha!

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Hey Mr. Huw hope all is well! Shoot you can pretty much make wine out of anything...store bought fruit...even fruit juice! Hell you can make wine out of sugar and water if ya wanted :-) Yeast really aren't too picky about where they get their sugar from haha! Have a great day sir!

We love our wine :-) Thank you for stopping by Steph!

It's pretty darn good Titus! Yea homemade wine is kinda getting lost with the younger generation....guess just too easy to go buy a cheap bottle at the store haha! Hope you have a great day buddy!

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Hey buddy....thanks for visiting! We love our wine :-) lol...yea look me up if you can cross the pond without getting eaten by a Zombie....we'll get ya hooked up! Have a good one!

lol...we like to stay busy :-)

Howdy! Hmmmm...I've never used the kit or juice so really don't know how different it is...sure its still good :-) I have so many fruit trees / bushes making wine is a good way to take care of the surplus when we get sick of eating em ha! Thanks for stopping by!

Not many people know that song these days....darn kids haha!

Yes mam....love that wine :-) Have a great day!

Hey man...thanks for stopping by! Oooooo I'm not a big drinker either...I give away 90% of the inventory but I have SO much fruit I hate to see it go to waste every year :-)

Hey Dave...hope all is well man....woah you make wine?? I didn't know....where's that video??? :-) Have a great day!

Cruze's Louisiana Outdoors I have one It’s one of my older videos I might try to make another wine video We’ll see

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Hey man....thanks for coming by! Yea its a little bit of a process but not too bad :-) Have a great day!

Welllll...then I would have had to look at it at an angle...and not a correct reading :-)

Yessir she smelled really good....will crack open a bottle here round Christmas time :-) Have a great day!

Howdy mam :-) Oooooooo...its highly illegal to sell alcohol without purchasing thousands of dollars of local, state and federal permits....sooooooo...it just get's given away haha!

@@CruzesLouisianaOutdoors yeah, I guess the ATF would be knocking at your door! government always has to get their cut of your hard work!

I like the concentrate deal better too! Thanks for stopping by :-)

Hey man...thanks for stopping by! All good :-) Take care

Thanks for visiting brother...yea its pretty cool to make...but then again I'm a science geek haha! Have a great day!

Howdy sir thanks for stopping by! All good...take more than a little ole Cat 4 to wipe us out :-) Have a great day!

Cruze's Louisiana Outdoors Glad to hear. You too!

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Hey buddy! Hmmmmm...it could be aging...don't think there is any oxidation in there though after bottling! For wine, the purpose of the Potassium Sorbate added before bottling is to prevent any further fermentation in the bottles...otherwise all the corks would blow :-) I've NEVER had that happen before due to missing that step hahaha! Thanks for stopping by brother!

@@CruzesLouisianaOutdoors - If you add enough sugar to go beyond the yeast’s maximum alcohol tolerance (which, for Lalvin’s EC-1118 is around 14%) you’ll be left with a bit of residual sugar (graviry above 1.000) and no chance of fermentation starting up again. That means back-sweetening is safe, no danger of bottle bombs or popping corks and no need to stabilise the wine with chemicals. If you want a lower alcohol content you can use a yeast with a lower alcohol tolerance 10-12%). That might mean you’ll need less sugar. In order to make sure the risk at accidentally making vinegar is as low as possible, best is to shoot for an alcohol content somewhere over 12-15%. For a nice mouth feel close to that of commercial grape wine, either add some wine tannin before fermentation, or replace one cup of the water with some strong black tea... or add tannin-rich, food-safe leaves like one or two oak leaves, a few leaves from an apple tree, or another food safe leaf you like from a bush or tree you have in the garden. Campden tablets are not necessary if you pour boiling water over your berries and let it cool to a temp your yeast will tolerate... AND make sure your yeast colony is strong enough from the beginning by pitching enough yeast. Sanitising your equipment properly is however a necessity. Instead of acid blend you can use a 50-50 mixture of citric acid and cream of tartar... of use plain ol’ lemon juice. For anyone wishing to add yeast nutrient, an alternative is to boil up some baker’s yeast to kill it off, and to add that to the must before adding the live yeast. Boiled lees from a previous brew works too. Add water, boil for 10-15 minutes, allow to cool and settle, use this settled gunk. Works like a dream. To avoid the production of off-flavours and aid in fermentation (and reduce ageing time a bit) it’s worth it to off-gass the brew once or twice a day under airlock by swirling the fermentation container. Keeping in the lower range of the yeast’s temperature requirements can also help flavours. Fermentation will be slower, but less flavours will escape through the airlock together with the CO2. Happy brewing!

Howdy sir...as always thanks for stopping by! Yessir...they need to age for about 12 months before 'optimal'...something about dissolving CO2 or some nonsense I won't bore you with :-) The bottle from three years ago I showed is the LAST one from that batch...I've been holding on to it for something...just don't know what yet haha! Have a good one!

That's awesome buddy...its a pretty easy process w/ the right equipment...you should give her a go one day :-) Have a good one!

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Hey man....thank ya much for stopping by :-) We love making wine...I think I like making it more than drinking it ha! Have a good one!

Hey brother....thank you for stopping by and you are more than welcome to join our apocalypse group hahaha! Yea we may have a little blow later this evening...we shall see :-)

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