What fruit in your freezer

[jake47]

Just wondered what frozen fruit youve got in your freezer ready for winemaking?
ive got blackberries 18 pound
sloes 2 pound(bloody things ....sore thumb and all)
Elderberies 11 pound
bilberries 2 pound (hard to pick )
Damsons 10 pound.
On the go 5 gallon of damson and 5 gallon of damson and greengage.(very lively).
All the above picked for free, got to get some more elderberries as the trees are loaded with ripe berries and will be for some weeks to come .Not sure if its because of all the rain we have had over the last few months but there seems to be much more free fruit around.

[lockwood1956]

Just removed the 15lbs of kiwi fruit and started it fermenting, but I have 18lbs elderberries and 35 lbs Damsons in there at the moment

[Rich]

Not sure of the weights, but I have 2 massive bags of Strawberries, small bag of Raspberries, several bags of rhubarb.

Not sure if they are going to be for wine or pies yet

Rich

[Duffbeer]

10lb Elderburries, 12lb rhubarb, 10lb damsons, 12lb grengage plums (thanks mother-in-law ) 9lb blackburries and 1 gal of eaters/crab apple mix (pressed juice).

[lockwood1956]

Not sure if they are going to be for wine or pies yet

Rich

*Gasp*.......Pies?

[Rich]

Yup, Pies! or even crumble.. or rhubarb with flapjack topping..

Need something to eat whilst drinking

I'll get one or 2 made for the next get together hopefully.

http://www.piesathomeforgreedygits.co.uk/

Rich

[StockeyDAW]

20+ pounds mulberries, 20+ pounds of blackberries, 20+ pounds of strawberries, 20+ pounds of tropical fruit - these are all for Mead. Also have 20 pounds of blueberries for my Heavy bodied blueberry wine, 10 pounds of raspberries, 5 pounds of cherries and 5 pounds of valiant grapes for use in other wines or when I need a citric or malic addition. Fermentation will start soon. DAW

[Mamgiowl]

8oz - yes, ounces - of elderberries is all I got from the only tree I know of. Apparently, there used to be hundreds around the area but they're all gone now. Ditto sloes, and it seems ditto blackberries too. I am not a happy bunny.

[Duffbeer]

Hmm know the feeling, three crab apple trees which I got a bout 20lb off a couple of weeks ago, now logs why, I have no idea grrrrr.

[medpretzel]

12 pounds of apples, and quite a bit of "this and that".... Not enough to make anything.... big....

[jake47]

8oz - yes, ounces - of elderberries is all I got from the only tree I know of. Apparently, there used to be hundreds around the area but they're all gone now. not a

Thats a bugger you cant swing a cat for hitting an elderberry tree around here ,there all over the place.

[Hippie]

Sorry to report, I have no fruit put away for winemaking this year.

[el wino]

I have what looks to be 3 to 4 lbs. of frozen elderberries.hand picked from several bushes I discovered while on my job working.Natural gas industry.I will go one more time to see if there is anymore to pick.

[lockwood1956]

hi el_wino

welcome aboard the forum

happy frst post!

regards
Bob

[NorthernWiner]

I have a hard, little moldy bit of something in my freezer. Might be cheese. Hard to tell, though.

Think I need to make a grocery run.