I decided the first brews without a kit would be considered the Rich’s IDK what I’m doing brews. This is the second batch I did of this series of IDK. The first was a beer which turned out more like gravy, I’ll be taking that for a round two on Sunday. I picked up the berries at a local farm market Horrocks.

Ingredients;

• 7 6oz Berried Treasure mures premium black berries
• 1 lemon
• Lalvin EC-1118 yeast
• 3lbs of sugar

Brewed 2/21/2014;

I brought 160oz of water to a boil. While the water was heating up I put the berries into a pot and mashed them. I sliced the lemon and added it on top of the mashed blackberries. I stirred in the boiling water, and put a dish cloth over the pot and stored it downstairs. Stirring daily in the morning for 1 week.

Update; 2/25/2014;

Removed the lemon slices from the batch.

After the 1 week I’m planning on adding the sugar. Stirring daily for 1 more week. Then fermenting with the yeast for two months.

Update; 2/28/2014;

Added 3lb’s of Sugar, stirred. Did this for one more week.

Update; 3/7/14

At long last it’s fermenting time! Added yeast nutrient to the jug, activated yeast in warm 100ml of water. Strained wine into jug, pitched yeast.

Bottled; 3/29/14

Looks like the fermenting is done on this batch of wine. Filtered it through a coffee filter and bottled. Used rubber mallet to knock the corks in. Didn’t take much to get them in, recessed them with 1/4″ nut driver. Racked. I’m excited to see how it turns out in a month. I tasted it when I bottled it, kind of tasted a bit like a wine cooler, I feel it’s a little light on the flavor side of things. That seems to be my brewing theme so far, light on flavor, lol.