This is the best possible timing for this video. Yesterday I picked four pounds of wild red and black raspberries to make wine, they’re in the fridge and tonight will be my first attempt.

My little brother will enjoy seeing this, he's been home brewing for years now. He's usually stuck by various types of mead and beer for most of his projects, but he has done some wines in the past.

I'm from the Appalachian mountains and my grandma used to make something like this every year. She would use white shine instead of wine but my favorite was the pulp. She would sit it aside, dry it out, and we would sprinkle it over our oats in the morning.

My grandparents had an abundance of black raspberry bushes on their property. I remember helping myself to them every summer, along with the other grandchildren. Black raspberries will always have a special place in my heart.

9:20 - we ferment blackberries over a picking season by putting a layer of bruised berries down in a carboy - when there's an inch or so, put in a layer of brown sugar, and so on. It stops bubbling after a while, so gently decant in November-ish into another carboy and rest a few days, decant again into bottles, and start drinking it.

Later in the season, apples make an excellent German type wine. Elderberry makes a really good red providing you don't use too many and ferment with grape juice.

I love the fact that Jon's hands and the utensils are stained that lovely shade of purple. How would someone in the 18th century deal with removing the stain?

The color of that final wine is gorgeous! I will try this.

I see you've chosen the Alto Wine for this recipe, 15 stamina, 30 stamina regen, very nice.

Your videos are a moment of peace for me. This atmosphere of calm and friendly storytelling is what we all lack these days I think. Thank you for what you are doing! Greetings from Ukraine.

Thank you for a different approach. Every year I try to make 5 gallons of black raspberry wine by fermenting them with a little added sugar. It is always a very good wine. I’m currently down to 4 bottles but I have 15lbs for another 5 gallons.

Jon sips the wine. Then he goes crazy like the guy in Reefer Madness and chugs the entire bottle. Starts howling like a wolf.

Rumor has it John is still washing his hands.

It’s great to come in after work and sit down with the family over tea or coffee and watch your videos. We enjoy all your guests and recipes. Keep up the good work and thanks for all the years of great content!

I really enjoy these seasonal type episodes. I get so excited to try these at home and remind me of the simpler pleasures before the we move on to the next season.

I can see why there's a difference of 3 days versus 4 or 5. With the sugar added right away, the yeast will be more active right away. Without any extra sugar, the yeast will have to rely upon the natural sugars from the berry juices alone, and will be slower-starting, requiring more time to achieve the same level of fermentation. For both, I'd definitely give them a week, loosely capped, for further fermentation, before corking tightly.

LOVE the stoneware funnel!

i love the comparisons between cookbooks to see how methodologies were refined and changed over the years !

This reminds me of making cordials. Very similar techniques. Main difference is not straining off the fruit solids until after it's sat with the alcohol for a few weeks.

Of all the wine I’ve made, Fig beats them all . Choke cherry the biggest disappointment, until forgotten about for a year it when it became intensely smooth and rich .

I’m so thankful for this channel.

Amazing timing! I just finished an experimental batch of mead using wineberries I foraged in the woods near my house.

I've been fermenting, gallon and a half batches of fruit juices, for about a year. Experimenting with different kinds and mixes. Seems like white grape, concord grape, apple and cranberry are ones you can never go wrong with. I've been using SafCider AB-1 yeast for it all. I bottle it in 1 liter Grolsch bottles, they're reusable and don't need to mess with bottle caps.

Can't wait to try this out!

This spring I played around with the Raspberry Wine recipe from The Housekeepers Instructor (Schnebbelie 1805) but I wanted to use strawberries. I did what you wanted to do and fermented the strawberries with the sugar (since strawberries are a bit more difficult to juice I think than raspberries and I got more out of macerating them). I let that wine sit for over a month and it is fantastic. It basically tastes a bit like a slightly alcoholic strawberry jam. It really did capture the essence of those early spring berries. But I do want to try it with raspberries as well.

I will say if you can get like a high strength hard cider it will go good with berries too. Needs to be like 15% abv to start with to last any amount of time. And to those who don't do alcohol. Sweetened and flavored vinegars are good to and make a really good syrup to flavor water.

The fact that there are black raspberries growing in our backyard makes me excited to try this recipe out! Wonderful video!

The stained hands have always been my favorite thing about berry picking 😊🍀💚

That was fun! Thanks, Jon!

As someone who has lived overseas for a long time, I really miss berry season so much. Thanks for this video, it reminded me of home.

i'm so glad i found this channel, i can't believe i just learned about its existence a few weeks ago, every video is just fascinating

Thank you for these wonderful videos

any time you're using a cloth to filter juice from pulp, you can gather up the loose ends around a stick and use that to twist the bundle and squeeze out the juice. It increases your leverage greatly and really saves your hands if you're doing it a few times.

Made this with Blueberries, as they're ripe around this time of year. Was really good, and better than waiting for the entire berry-to-wine process.

my biggest concern, as a brewer, is that the mixture will referment. be careful not to cork it too tight or you'll have a bottle bomb,.

In modern parlance, those recipes are more cordials than wine. I usually make several fruit cordials every year, using vodka as the infusing liquid. Black raspberries make what is essentially Chambord. All and all, an excellent way to preserve the fruity goodness.

The first coming video I can think of I've actually been intrigued about!

Looks great! Will try for sure!

I’m making my first batch of apple cider, and I learned that adding the sugar before fermentation feeds the yeast that is on the fruit which can increase the alcohol content during fermentation. Depending how hardy the yeast is, it could get to a point where the alcohol is too much for the colony. Love the channel guys!

I made mullberry jam this year! I left out a bird feeder and they graciously shared the mullberries with us this year (except the orioles, they ate the mullberries and the oranges I left for them) I think wine will be for next season!

I love this videos. You learn a lot.

Looking forward to seeing the followup in the Tavern!

Ah, a cliffhanger. Love it.. Can't wait for the garden party and tasting the raspberry wine in its full glory.

As a homebrewer, love to see the kind of content!

your videos make me happy

This takes me back to the early days of the pandemic. An old friend and I tried making wine. It was undrinkable 😂 I’ll have to try your way! Update: you are all very kind but this wasn’t bad like “cheap wine” this was bad like “unfit for human consumption” bad. This was “an abomination unto Bacchus” bad 😂

I can only speak to beer brewing but in that the bulk of the fermentation is generally done in three days, for ales at least, and the rest of the time before bottling or kegging is usually used to let any solids settle on the bottom of the fermenter. Seems like Hannah Glass knew how to get the most bang for her buck out of those berries!

We're in the middle of blueberry season here in northern MN, but they're actually bilberries. Raspberries are coming soon though.

Blackberries are in season in Ohio too! My favorite planting. They are so easy to grow and snacking in the yard is so rewarding.

Great timing. Just harvested some berries. We sadly didn't get any apples this year to make our ciders. But this will do. Thank you for sharing this recipe.

One can always find a kindred spirit herein with The Townsend's...

Sir. You touch on all of the awesomeness of our history. I love your show!

Your ginger beer video got me into winemaking during coronoavirus. Now I have about 40 gallons working on the porch and around the house, and 400 bottles in the cellar.

Never heard of making wine using already existing wine. Awesome video. Looking forward to that livestream for the final result.

Ohh, I love that stoneware jar! 🤩

I've been picking black raspberries hard to find recipes thank you!

I love your purple hands! This look really fun to make!

Yes! Good idea to add the sugar when you did. I bet it will turn out delish!

I used to work at a winery in Amish country here in PA. Whenever the boss and I got bored, we’d look up these old recipes!

Great technique!

I remember in the mysterious isle by Jules Verne, how often it was explaining how various plants in the isle could make an agreeable wine

Dad and myself would Crack a lid and let it sour for a month or longer. It tasted great and when sealed, lasted over 40yr years and counting

I sailed the Pacific in the 1970's on a US Navy vessel. We made jungle juice on the boat. Things were different back then. Vietnam ammo ship.AE-26. we used pillow cases for straining. We stole the officers case of grapes. Then raisens. Used a big steel milk jug. Yeast and sugar. 30 days and perfect. We peeled potatoes and made wine for movie night on Thursday. Children of the Corn seemed to always run. As long as man lives we ferment berries. Love your shows.

Digby's sounds amazing, triple extraction, then barrel aging, but fermentation adds that good funk.

The thumbnail is magnificent for reasons obvious

you guys are about to break the 2 million subscriber mark! congratulations! 😊

the 1670s method of using alcohol and berries infused is literally how you make a number of liqueurs at home using high grain alcohol and then the fruit and or spices/herbs you wish. Typically you freeze the berries (this replaces the hand bruising) and opens the berries, you then add them to a jar it can be as little as half a pound of berries and you only need to cover them with the high grain alcohol. You then leave it as this for a week shaking the contents in the jar (one with a clip top) so it's sealed. After the week you strain the liquid from the berries and then you just cut the liquid by adding water and sugar (best to use syrup which is boiled water and sugar) you do this by mixing them to get the abv you want. Instead of water and sugar you can also use fruit juice the abv wont be exact because of this but you can get it pretty close.

10:55 i dont know why, but your absolutely purple hands are hilarious through this segment

I've made homemade wine before I need to try this method out thanks

Black raspberries precious as you said, Jon. Their season is short and they are very difficult to harvest in the wild. Their flavor is absolutely wonderful and totally different from mullberries, blackberries, and red raspberries. Their shelf life is really short too. They smell like perfume to me and they bring back so many memories of gathering and my sister making cobbler with them (to stretch them.) Their delicacy and difficulty of gathering is why I would bet that 99% of people have no idea of what they're missing by not ever having eaten them.

There's a huge difference in fermenting. In order to produce alcohol, it has to be done below 52f, above 52 f it can ferment into vinegar. My dad, the plumber heating cooling guy, did and experiment with me, on fermenting. He stuck a fresh gallon of apple cider at the bottom of our fridge, and one on the pantry shelf. A month later we had apple cider wine and apple cider vinegar on the pantry shelf. Beer makers could not produce beer in the warm months because they needed a cooled place to make it. The first refrigerator cooling system was produced, all because Coors's Beer owned the first patent on refrigeration system. That patent lost out to a gas other then ammonia sulfide, I believe it was. Beer created refrigerators. Beer created the world as we know it, it even created algebra, farming, transportation $ trade, geometry, etc... all because someone collecting grains left a storage pot out in the rain, found a couple days latter, after the grain sprouted and it was carbonated, and they tasted it, and POOF, the first barley soda was founded. It just took off from there over the millennia. True Story, Nettflix: How Beer Saved the world!

Take that berry pulp and spread it around outside for even more berries next year

I've been picking mulberries and wild raspberries the last few weeks, this was great to see

I’m not much of a drinker. That being said, my favorite drink is mead with black raspberry nectar added to it. Redstone Meadery in Boulder, Colorado. So good!

I've got a great old passed down many times recipe for homemade wine but it is one of those that take 4-8 weeks. However It only takes a gallon of fruit for 2.5 gallons finished yield. But the best thing to do when working with Raspberries or something of the sort, is to mix them half and half with Rhubarb. It's alot easier to get a bucket of rhubarb than a bucket of raspberries. Balances all the flavors out really well and if you have a decent rhubarb patch of your own then you know that you have too much rhubarb than you know what to do with. Chokecherries would probably be the one fruit you don't want to mix with anything. But you could mix almost anything with Rhubarb. Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum, Strawberry, almost anything you can think of. If you give this comment a Like I will share it with everyone haha.

I'm excited to see the end result of this one!

Could a start to finish wine making video be in the future? You know with the crushing of grapes, historic sterilizing processes, the fermenting ect? It would be so cool to see! Also thank you for this video!

Never realized you guys were in Indiana, always cool to learn a KZfaq channel I’ve been watching for a while is from my state!

excellent video as always :)

Jon at his finest. Great video. He should be a professor.

What a handy looking funnel!

I have been harvesting blueberries from my blueberry bush since the last week of June. It still has a lot left to ripen. This would be a neat idea to try.

You’re the man!

last year, I used the pulp to flavor some rum. Yum. 😋

My favorite topic!

I live near a brandy distillery in Illinois. I've always wanted raspberry brandy! I know a few ditches by a creek that the black raspberries grow wild. Maybe I can take some plain brandy and do this.

This is the kind of wine-making process for terrible criminals; they'll always be caught red-handed. Seriously, though, this is fantastic. It blends two loves of mine, wine-making and history. Absolutely well made and definitely earned a sub and notification. ^.^

Lol, your title card was perfect 😄

"And Mr. Townsend's hands were stained pink forevermore..."

Yep, adding the sugar before fermentation helps feed the yeast. I'd like to see how it tastes after a few more days.

I had view different method of aging and distillation before and while i doubt that it would have been mentioned in the cook books but with the ceramic jar simply adding water to the area where the lid meets the jar creates a seal that prevents outside contaminants from entering the liquid but allows for the gases from the distilling to escape. Also I read another recipe that said to add the sugar to the squished berries to extract more liquid fron them

"it shall be 3 days, not 4 or 5" Definitely some Monty Python writing 😂.

Thanks for this suggestion! While I don't **brew** per sey, I do make mead, cordials and vodka. Just seeing this started me thinking about maybe some Raspberry mead..My hives are pretty plush right now..

Love you man

I will try this

I love how his hands are stained by the raspberry juice... we used to have blackberry brambles on our land when I was a lad and our handsgot stained like that... brings back happy memories.

Anyone watching this be very very careful storing this for the weeks after. The amount of sugar added will not ferment in the 3 days. So as it sits lots more co2 will be created. Make sure the storage container can let out gas or you will paint your home with raspberries

You can ferment any juice into 10-14% in about ten days. As long as it doesn’t have sulfates. Juice sugar yeast. I used to do it all the time

Wine is fun, easy to pick up and relatively cheap to start.

Whew😅 That thumbnail had me thinking you were wringing out a cow's heart. Good thing you cleared that up.