Blueberry brandy?

[zirtico]

Hey all,

It's blueberry season up here in Canada and I thought I'd give blueberry brandy a shot! Picked up 20 lbs of berries and from what I've read, a full-bodied blueberry wine comes in at approx. 3 lbs berries per gallon and I'm thinking of making 5.5 gallons of which the majority will get distilled for brandy and I'll keep about 1.5 gallons to enjoy as wine.

Planning on using about 17 lbs of blueberries, about 3.5 kg of sugar for 5.5 gallons with an OG of no more than 1.072-1.080. Then I'll run it through the still twice and perhaps distill a portion of the wine only once and add the single-distilled portion to the double-distilled (to preserve flavour).

If anybody has ever tried this or has any useful tips, I would love to hear them before I finally run it!