There's no way I want to turn that into wine. The Environmental Working Group found 17 different pesticides on a single strawberry sample. If at all possible, get your berries from someone you trust, and ask them what, if anything, they spray.Ĭonventional strawberries are on the Dirty Dozen list. Meanwhile, we're focusing on crops I can't find elsewhere, and/or those that are more expensive, like blueberries, raspberries, gooseberries, aronia berries, bush cherries, seaberries, hardy kiwis and others. We have land, but strawberries are labor intensive, and since I have a source I trust close by, I support their efforts. I've had a number of readers ask why we don't grow our own strawberries. They don't use any herbicides or pesticides, and use holistic farming practices that build the soil instead of mining it like conventional farming.īecky (the owner) and I had a great conversation about some of our favorite soil and permaculture gurus as she helped us fill our strawberry baskets for this wine. Becky and her family spend long hours out in the berry patch, tending everything by hand so I don't have to. The 2016 strawberry season was a bountiful one at our favorite local u-pick farm, Red Grouse Farm. secondary fermentation vessel (gallon jar with airlock).From Jack's description, this looks like a wine that will not improve with much longer storage, so it's okay to enjoy it young. Allow to settle 3-5 days and bottle when clear.Īge for at least 6 months. Store out of direct sunlight for 30 days. (A fermentation cap is an airlock that allows carbon dioxide to escape but keeps oxygen out.) (The berry mix will bubble in the early stages of fermentation and may rise out of a one gallon crock.)Ĭrush fruit with a potato masher or pastry blender. Cover berry/sugar mix with 5 pints boiling water.Īdd sterilized water to top up to one gallon of liquid and seal with a fermentation cap.
2 teaspoons citric acid or wine acid blendįor a single batch, place strawberries, sugar and citric acid in a 2 gallon crock.Use only the sweetest, freshest berries and you'll be rewarded with an exquisite, delicate wine.” Ingredients
Jack says about this wine, “The first is the simplest strawberry wine recipe I know of.
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