Raspberry Wine!
Jul 13, 2013 17:41:52 #
Jul 13, 2013 17:53:56 #
I had 2 identical beer kits a couple of months back so the spare had a whole kilo of raspberry's added to it came out quite nice.
Skeezit wrote:
There is nothing like it for color and flavor
Jul 13, 2013 18:03:58 #
I have been adding chocolate flavoring to mine. Boy- is that good stuff!!
Jul 13, 2013 18:43:43 #
Great image! Taken before or after sampling? :) I love the saturated colors, strong light and the reflections on the bottle.
Jul 13, 2013 18:44:55 #
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Jul 14, 2013 11:25:21 #
I have made beer, wine and mead for over 50 years. I love raspberry in all of them. But, my favorite is black-raspberry mead. I have to have the black-raspberrys deep frozen when shipped from Oregon. Ends us about $50 a pound and then after a gallon on good honey, the cost is about $150 to make 5 gallons. And it is worth it.
Jul 14, 2013 13:26:31 #
I have never tried mead. I had a little comercial mead once, and didn't care for it. I will have to study up on this and try to find a good recipe. Thanks for the suggestion.
Jul 14, 2013 15:54:24 #
Linda,
You read that to make good mead is expensive. So, if I had made the black raspberry mead commercial to sell, I would have to charge something like $35 a bottle. Well, people just don't walk into a liquor store, see a bottle of mead for the first time. If it sells for $14, they may try it. But never would they try something at $35 a bottle. So to get it down to $14 a bottle, the meadery will only use half of the fruit they should use, that drops the alcohol. The result is a 9% alc. and little fruit and honey flavor. I wish you could taste a bottle of the real McCoy. Cheers.
Tony p.s. I attached a snapshot of the mead a couple of years ago. Five gallons each of black raspberry, red raspberry, and marion berry. The marion berry is truly superb.
You read that to make good mead is expensive. So, if I had made the black raspberry mead commercial to sell, I would have to charge something like $35 a bottle. Well, people just don't walk into a liquor store, see a bottle of mead for the first time. If it sells for $14, they may try it. But never would they try something at $35 a bottle. So to get it down to $14 a bottle, the meadery will only use half of the fruit they should use, that drops the alcohol. The result is a 9% alc. and little fruit and honey flavor. I wish you could taste a bottle of the real McCoy. Cheers.
Tony p.s. I attached a snapshot of the mead a couple of years ago. Five gallons each of black raspberry, red raspberry, and marion berry. The marion berry is truly superb.
Jul 14, 2013 16:51:08 #
Oooooh. And I grow marrionberries!!! I will have to check I to this!!!
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