{"id":27,"date":"2013-10-21T10:44:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T10:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2013-10-22T13:53:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T13:53:37","slug":"elderberry-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/elderberry-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderberry Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"2013-09-22<\/a>
Picking sloes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The wine making all started up again because of two things.<\/p>\n

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  1. A friend telling us about her bumper grape harvest and “we should make wine from them”<\/li>\n
  2. an idle conversation whilst having a delightful autumn berry picking walk\u00a0 with the kids.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Huge bunches of elderberries were hanging from the bushes that day but we were out for sloes and blackberries.\u00a0 The elderberries did look inviting so I went back a couple of days later and collected what I thought was enough for a demijohn of wine.\u00a0 I had no idea what I was doing of course.\u00a0 We also dug out the old home brew kit.\u00a0 The yeast was disgusting looking.\u00a0 I couldn’t imagine that it had survived 15 years in the pot.<\/p>\n

    I did a lot of looking around for a recipe and in the end came up with my own version based on the Wine Making Guides web site<\/a>.\u00a0 This is the method I used, but from memory because I was really making it up as I went along.<\/p>\n

    Ingredients<\/h3>\n