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I've never made elderberry wine, but people who do that kind of thing have told me that the flowers make a better wine than the berries.
I don't think there is enough sugar in the elederberries to compensate for the acidity of the sloes.
For the same reason, I don't think you can make wine from sloes. They are far too sour. I have made sloe gin. You pick your sloes, prick them all over, and put them in a bottle with gin and sugar, and leave them (if you do it about now) until Christmas when you have a delcious, purple drink for cold evenings.
And elderberries too...
ReplyDeletei did wonder if it might be possible to make wine using both, or if they would have to be blended after fermentation ...
ReplyDeleteI've never made elderberry wine, but people who do that kind of thing have told me that the flowers make a better wine than the berries.
ReplyDeleteI don't think there is enough sugar in the elederberries to compensate for the acidity of the sloes.
For the same reason, I don't think you can make wine from sloes. They are far too sour. I have made sloe gin. You pick your sloes, prick them all over, and put them in a bottle with gin and sugar, and leave them (if you do it about now) until Christmas when you have a delcious, purple drink for cold evenings.
... and then there's the question of which girl yo drink it with ...
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