I only tried cider because it does not need any heat whatsoever. But you planted the seed and i want to try some beers in the future!

I posted it here earlier: https://feddit.de/comment/456063

Yeah, i’ve read about that aswell. Here in germany they are pretty common everywhere.

I’ll try and get a money shot in a clear glass without ice and the sun shining trough tomorrow. It cleared up so well in the refrigerator, i was baffled

Yep, the recipe is kind of a wine. But the last time i only got up to 8%. This time it shot up to 10% in almost under two weeks. My cellar was quite warm this time of the year. But its perfect.

It absolutely is, drinking as i type! I’ve also tried it as cider berry spritz with prosecco, ice and soda. Godly!

I am a beer guy too! But i had so much currant i had to use it. It is red and black currant maybe 50/50 and some josta berries on top but not that much. In total i used about 14kg of berries. Should yield about 60 litres but there is some already missing ???

Looks awesome. What I like most about home brew is the ingredients. U mostly need sugar, some fruit and water, maybe yeast. (And some other secondary stuff)

But it’s pretty basic and yields such phenomenal results. Maybe I love cider and beer too much…

Thanks! I’ll try… How does crossposting work in the fediverse? Is there a function or do I just post the link to here?

I’ll try ddg!

Comer over! I have to regularly measure sugar and of course I need to do a taste test

They are! I planned to only use the big one, but was afraid the fermentation would rise too much and split it between the barrels.

Ingredients (for about 10 L) 2-3 kg red currants 1,5 kg sugar 4,4 g yeast nutrient salt 15 mL antigel demineralized water 0.5 liters of apple juice (for the fermentation starter) Pure yeast “Port” (alternatively “Bordeaux”), preferably dry yeast sugar for post-fermentation (later) Ascorbic acid (later) Potassium disulfite (later)

Preparation

The currants are washed and then destemmed, that is, freed from all the stems. For this purpose, a fork is suitable, with which one strips the berries. Now the berries are mashed with a potato masher, the sugar and the yeast nutrient salt are dissolved in about 6 liters of water and added to the fruit together with the antigel. The rehydrated yeast or starter culture is added and the mash fermentation is started. It may be necessary to add sugar during this time.

After about two weeks, the mash is pressed off and the wine is diluted until an acidity of about 7.5-8 g/L is reached (shake out the carbonic acid before measuring!). Continue fermentation until about 13% alcohol is reached. Alternatively, fermentation can be continued to the end.

Once fermentation is complete, sulfur is added with 1 g of potassium disulfite per 10 L and the wine is kept as cool and still as possible. After one or two weeks, it can now be drawn off from the yeast into a new balloon. Now either the residual sugar content can be adjusted directly and filtered, or the wine can still be aged accordingly. If the “pithy” taste is missing, it can be improved by aging on oak chips (French oak, “medium toast”). The wine has a very good self-clarification, so that one can filter directly EK. Before that, the residual sweetness is adjusted and 1g of potassium pyrosulfite and 1g of ascorbic acid per 10 L are added to the wine again.

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http://met-und-fruchtwein.de/rezepte.html#johannisbeerwein

This is the Recipe I use. I’ll paste it in DeepL, one Second!

They are. Sometimes we are chilling in the garden and suddenly there are a bunch of calves zooming by.