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Homemade Blueberry Wine
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Homemade Blueberry Wine

Blueberry wine is fantastic, and is easy to make at home - whether a gallon or five gallons at a time! ⁠
Prep Time2 hours
Cook Time20 minutes
Resting time365 days
Total Time365 days 2 hours 20 minutes
Course: Beverage
Cuisine: French
Servings: 1 Gallon
Calories: 4286kcal
Author: Marie Porter

Equipment

  • Large pot
  • 2 gallon fermenter bucket and lid
  • 1 - 2 1 gallon glass carboys
  • 1 air lock and stopper
  • Siphon, siphon tubing.

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Rinse and pick through blueberries, removing any that are moldy, etc.
    Place in a large pot, along with the sugar. Using a potato masher or VERY clean hands, stir and mash blueberries. Allow to sit for an hour or so, if you'd like.
  • Add water, stir well. Heat to ALMOST boiling, then simmer gently for 30 minutes. Stir in acid blend, enzyme, nutrient, and tannin.
  • Pour mixture into a freshly sanitized fermenting bucket. Cover with sanitized lid and air lock, allow to cool to room temperature (overnight).
  • The next morning, give the mixture a quick stir with a long, sanitized spoon, and – using sanitized equipment – take a gravity reading of the liquid (strain out any blueberries). Keep track of the number! (This is an optional step, but will allow you to calculate your final ABV %)
  • Sprinkle yeast into fermenter, cover with sanitized cover and air lock. Within 48 hours, you should notice fermentation activity – bubbles in the airlock, carbonation and /or swirling in the wine must. This means you’re good to go!
  • After a week or so, use your sanitized siphon setup to rack the must into a freshly sanitized carboy. Put the carboy somewhere cool (not cold!), and leave it alone for a month or so.
  • Using sanitized equipment, rack the blueberry wine off the sediment, into a clean, freshly sanitized carboy. Cap with sanitized airlock, leave it alone for another 2-3 months.
  • Rack one more time, leave it for another 3 months or so.
  • When your wine has been racked a few times and shows NO more fermenting activity for a month or so (no bubbles in the airlock, no more sediment being produced, you can move on to bottling.
  • Follow the instructions on your selected type of wine stabilizer to stop fermentation. For potassium sorbate, this needs to be done 2-3 days before bottling.
  • Using sanitized equipment, take a gravity reading, then rack the wine into clean, sanitized bottles. Cork.

Notes

IMPORTANT:
Software generates nutritional information based on the ingredients as they start, and is unable to account for the sugars consumed in the fermentation process. As such, the calories, sugars, and carbs are shown WAY higher than reality.
Additionally, the listed value is for the entire recipe, NOT per serving.
IMPORTANT:
Software generates nutritional information based on the ingredients as they start, and is unable to account for the sugars consumed in the fermentation process. As such, the calories, sugars, and carbs are shown WAY higher than reality.
Additionally, the listed value is for the entire recipe, NOT per serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 4286kcal | Carbohydrates: 1104g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 212mg | Potassium: 1048mg | Fiber: 33g | Sugar: 1041g | Vitamin A: 735IU | Vitamin C: 132mg | Calcium: 195mg | Iron: 4mg