Free Fruit!!

[jog666]

A neighbor brought down a few blue & rasp berries today. I asked if he had more & sure as shit he did & brought it all down.

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3# Raspberry
1# 6oz fresh blueberry
16# frozen blueberry

I thumbed through HD along with a few wine sites while the smoker was going. All of the wine sites say add a bunch of sugar & other shit to make wine. I didnt really want to add any sugar or other crap. At the most, water to get the volume up.

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Blended the hell out of it all. Since the frozen berries were still half froze, I set the pot on the fire box & would give it a stir every so often to keep it from burning or sticking.

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Ended up with just under 2.5g. Added enough water to hit 4g

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I pulled a sample out to filter so I could check the starting gravity. 1.030
Not that great but it was free.

Thinking about adding some sugar to it but not sure. One thought was to let it finish, rack it into another bucket with some sugar water to get the volume & gravity up then run that. Or run as is, use the backset to melt the sugar & dump onto the solids then run that when done. Thoughts?