Recipe for elderberry wine?

Question

How do i make elderberry wine? Where I walk the dogs there is a glut of the things and while everyone is picking the blackberries they ignore the elderberries. It seems such a waste.

Answer 1

Ingredients for every Gallon
2 pound Elderberries

2 oranges

1 ripe banana and must be frozen before use.

3 pound brown sugar

2 Camden tablets

1 teaspoon yeastnutrients

1/2 teaspoon pectic enzyme

3 liter (12 cups) water

1 package wine yeast

Crush elderberries and place in primary fermentor, then defrost banana and place them in fermentor as well. Add the rind and the juice from the oranges to the must, then add the rest of the ingredients with the exemption of the yeast, water and the sugar.

Dissolve sugar in hot water then add to must. measure specific gravity of the must. It should be 1.090 add water or sugar water to get there.

When the musts temperature is between 70 to 80 degree F or 21 to 27 C add the yeast.

Stir daily.

let ferment until the specific gravity reaches 1.030 the press and air lock the wine. Rack in 10 days and again every 3 months.

The first winter cold stabilize wine put in garage or shed for a few cold weeks.

Drink in a year.

Answer 2

Elderberry Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from brewed elderberries

Elder or Elderberry (Sambucus) is a genus of between 5-30 species of fast-growing shrubs or small trees (two species herbaceous), formerly treated in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae, but now shown by genetic evidence to be correctly classified in the moschatel family Adoxaceae. The genus is mainly native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with two species in the Southern Hemisphere.

The leaves are opposite, pinnate, with 5-9 leaflets (rarely 3 or 11), each leaf 5-30 cm long, the leaflets with a serrated margin. They bear large clusters of small white or cream coloured flowers in the late spring, that are followed by clusters of small red, bluish or black (rarely yellow or white) berries. The berries are a very valuable food resource for many birds. Elders are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Brown-tail, Buff Ermine, Dot Moth, Emperor Moth, The Engrailed, Swallow-tailed Moth and The V-pug. The crushed foliage and immature fruit have a strong foetid smell.
Species groups

* The common elder complex is variously treated as a single species Sambucus nigra found in the warmer parts of Europe and North America with several regional varieties or subspecies, or else as a group of several similar species. The flowers are in flat umbels, and the berries are black to glaucous blue; they are larger shrubs, reaching 5-8 m tall, occasionally small trees up to 15 m tall and with a stem diameter of up to 30-60 cm.
o Sambucus caerulea (syn. S. glauca; Blueberry Elder; western North America; with blue berries)
o Sambucus canadensis (American Elder; eastern North America; with blue-black berries)
o Sambucus mexicana (Mexican Elder; Mexico and Central America; with blue-black berries)
o Sambucus nigra (Black Elder; Europe and western Asia; with black berries)
o Sambucus simpsonii (Florida Elder; southeastern United States; with blue-black berries)
o Sambucus peruviana (Andean Elder; northern South America; with blue-black berries)
o Sambucus velutina (Velvet Elder; southwestern North America; with blue-black berries)

* The Blackberry Elder Sambucus melanocarpa of western North America is intermediate between the preceding and next groups. The flowers are in rounded panicles, but the berries are black; it is a small shrub, rarely exceeding 3-4 m tall. Some botanists include it in the red-berried elder group, as Sambucus racemosa subsp. melanocarpa.

* The red-berried elder complex is variously treated as a single species Sambucus racemosa found throughout the colder parts of the Northern Hemisphere with several regional varieties or subspecies, or else as a group of several similar species. The flowers are in rounded panicles, and the berries are bright red; they are smaller shrubs, rarely exceeding 3-4 m tall.
o Sambucus callicarpa (Pacific Coast Red Elder; west coast of North America)
o Sambucus chinensis (Chinese Red Elder; eastern Asia, in mountains)
o Sambucus microbotrys (Mountain Red Elder; southwest North America, in mountains)
o Sambucus pubens (American Red Elder; northern North America)
o Sambucus racemosa (European Red Elder or Red-berried Elder; northern Europe, northwest Asia)
o Sambucus sieboldiana (Japanese Red Elder; Japan and Korea)
o Sambucus tigranii (Caucasus Red Elder; southwest Asia, in mountains)
o Sambucus williamsii (North China Red Elder; northeast Asia)

* The Australian elder group comprises two species from Australasia, the only Southern Hemisphere occurrence of the genus. The flowers are in rounded panicles, and the berries white or yellow; they are shrubs growing to 3 m high.
o Sambucus australasica (Yellow Elder; New Guinea, eastern Australia)
o Sambucus gaudichaudiana (Australian Elder or White Elder; shady areas of south eastern Australia)

* The dwarf elders are by contrast to the other species herbaceous plants, producing new stems each year from a perennial root system; they grow to 1.5-2 m tall, each stem terminating in a large flat umbel which matures into a dense cluster of glossy berries.
o Sambucus adnata (Asian Dwarf Elder; Himalaya and eastern Asia; berries red)
o Sambucus ebulus (European Dwarf Elder; central and southern