LARRY JANKE:
Hello and welcome. I'm   Larry Janke, fruit winemaker and a friend 
of Northern Brewer and Midwest Supplies.   They've asked me back to help with a 
video on how to make wine from fruit.   Today we're going to be introducing the Master 
Vintner Fresh Harvest Fruit Wine Making Kit.   Just as an overview we're going to go through 
everything that is included in the kit everything   that you need to make a one-gallon batch from 
fruit, either fresh fruit concentrate or from   fresh fruit from your yard. And it's important 
that you know how these wines taste. So, at the   end of the video we'll crack into a bottle of a 
raspberry and a very special elderberry I have so   we can show you the differences and also how easy 
it is to make wine from different types of fruits. Before we dig in, we're going to take a quick look 
at what's included in the kit. First off, when you   first unpack the box, you'll find a two-gallon 
fermenter. This is where the all the action and   fermentation happen. It's a very nice bucket and 
it also has graduations on the back, so you know   exactly where you're at. It comes with a nice seal 
to keep it airtight and an airlock to keep any   contaminants out. It also includes a one-gallon 
carboy with a cap and another airlock which is   what you'll use to transfer your must into the 
carboy when you are working on clearing the wine. Also included in the kit is everything you need 
for the ingredients. There's Campden tablets to   keep it sanitized. There's acid blend to 
add a little bit of a snap to your wine.   There's potassium sorbate that you'll be using at 
the tail end in case you're sweetening it back.   Do not put this in the beginning 
of your winemaking process.   There's yeast nutrient that keeps these happy 
while it's fermenting. There's a no-rinse cleaner.   One of the most important things in winemaking 
is make sure everything is sanitary; if you're   cooking around the kitchen, you're not going to 
use a dirty pot, so you want to keep everything   nice and clean. Also included is wine tannin. 
You won't be using this on all different types of   fruit wines, but you will be using this to give 
a little bit of a dryness to your throat, add   a little bit more taste. Also included is pectic 
enzyme. This is very important. For the people out   there making jelly, you know that all you have to 
do is just heat up your fruit and it's instantly   going to solidify into jelly. The pectic enzyme 
will help clear it and it'll keep it from gelling.  Also included in the kit is yeast. This is 
the most important part of the process. In   order to get it to ferment the yeast eats the 
sugar and creates the alcohol for your wine.   To get started we're using the premier Cotes 
de Blanc, which is kind of an overall yeast.   Later on, once you are a little bit more in 
tune with your winemaking, you can use different   types of yeast. But, to get you started we 
want to make sure that you're successful. Also included is a hydrometer. A hydrometer is 
what measures the sugar content of your wine.   That's also going to give you a great idea of 
what your alcohol content will be at the tail end.   It's very important that you 
get it right at the outset.   We'll show you how to use that a little bit later. Included is a racking cane and tubing, and 
that's how you get your wine must from the bucket   into the carboy. Tt=hat way you keep the 
oxygen off of it, so that you don't turn   your wine brown and oxidize it. Otherwise, 
you'll have a really nice port [laughs]. Also included is a bottle filler. 
This would be – we’ll be showing   you how to use this at the tail end, and 
that's in order to get your cleared wine   once it's finished from the 
carboy into your bottles. As mentioned before, you can make fruit wine 
from fresh fruit, from frozen fruit, or from   fruit puree. What we're going to be doing today 
is we're going to start with the fruit puree,   and we'll show you how to make that a little 
bit later from the fresh fruits and the   frozen fruits. The nice thing about the purees 
is that those are available all year long.   This is the raspberry that we're going to be 
using today. Northern Brewer has a variety of   these available. There's like a dozen different 
types of fruit that you can get in puree form. The other thing that you're going 
to need is your sugar. You can use   various types of recipes. I'm going to be going 
through a recipe that I've used for many years.   There's a recipe book that's included in the kit. 
They're also available online. They'll give you   basic understanding of how much sugar, how much 
acid blend, how much tannin that you'll need   to make a successful batch of fruit wine, 
depending on what type of fruit that you're using.   And the sugar, I use cane sugar, and like I said, 
the jury's still out on which one's the best.   I avoid brown sugar because it's got molasses in 
it. Just anything that'll make the yeast happy. So, what I've done ahead of time is I've got 
everything pre-measured. I've got my water,   my sugar, the fruit, and my fermentation bucket. 
Along with the kit you'll find a bag. It's a fruit   straining bag. And you notice it's a little bit 
damp. everything's been sanitized and ready to go.   Any kind of bacteria that you'd have in your 
ferment or any utensils that you use are not   going to be your friend, so you want to 
make sure that that's nice and sanitary. So, we're going to set this aside just 
for a moment and show you how to do this.   The other thing that you'll need is a good spoon. 
We also have a stainless-steel spoon that's been   sanitized as well, and that's nice for stirring 
in especially when you're stirring in your sugar. So, let's dig in! First thing you want to do 
open the can of puree, don't forget that part.   You just take this and simply pour it into this 
bag. Probably do a better job than I just did.   What you're doing is you're trying to catch as 
much pulp that might be in the pure as possible   and get as much juice into the 
fermentation bucket as possible.   I know a lot of people will use the can for 
measuring their water as well which is a pretty   good idea because even when you're making soup 
you want to clean out the inside of the can. So, now that you've got the 
fruit in here, you'll notice that   it's kind of like a tea bag, all of your 
juices are running down to the bottom.   Like I mentioned before the bucket actually is 
graduated so you've got the half-gallon, the one   gallon, and the one gallon and a half measurement 
right on it. At this point what you want to do is   you want to add water to it up to the one-gallon 
mark. And even though it's pure water I even   sanitize the gallon jug to make sure that there 
aren’t any contaminants going into my ferment. At this point you just simply pour the water into   the one-gallon mark and as I mentioned before 
a lot of times, I'll even rinse out the can.   You know the inside of the can of 
sanitary as well. This way you get all the   all the fruit pulp possible to 
give your wine a full flavor.   Then you fill it up to the one-gallon mark,   stir it in, and then we'll be adding our 
sugar and our other ingredients to it as well.   And now you've got a really nice 
batch. Like I said, it's like a tea   bag and all of your fruit flavors are 
coming now through the straining bag. So, at this point I'm just going to add 
the granulated sugar and stir it in,   and after this is fully dissolved what we're 
going to do is we're actually going to test   the sugar content. Most recipes 
are very close. You want to get to   1.095 which is a specific gravity, and I'll show 
you where that is on the hydrometer scale as well. If you're using fresh fruit this is 
going to take a little bit longer because   you're going to want to strain out as much 
of the fruit as possible. The ferment bag   is actually going to be in the fermentation 
for the first week anyway. So, you don't have   to get all of it out, but you want to extract 
as much of the color in the juices as you can   and then we'll add the other ingredients. Once the sugar is completely dissolved into your 
must you want to take a hydrometer reading to find   out if the sugar content is where you want 
it. As I mentioned the hydrometer is a very   good tool for that. Having a test jar is even 
easier because in this situation the hydrometer   won't go down into the must far enough in 
order to measure your specific gravity.  This is very handy. So, how do 
you get it from there to here?   The easiest way is to use a wine thief. We also 
have a three-piece wine thief available, it's very   easy to keep sanitized. It comes in three pieces.
The way this works, you put it together, and   there's a hole in the top of the thief so all you 
have to do is just dip it down into your must,   put your thumb over the top of it, and you'll be 
able to draw out some of the must. You put that   into the test jar until the hydrometer starts to 
float and then you can take a reading. Best way   to take a reading with this is at eye level, so 
you want to find where the specific gravity is.   The easiest way to know is that's 
the gauge that's got the one on it,   so you're looking for a one point something. As 
you can see the hydrometer reading is about 1.092.   We want it to be somewhere between 1.085 
and 1.095, and we're right in between there. So, we've got that handled. At this point 
we can add the rest of our ingredients into   the must. The additives that we're going to 
be using today for our red raspberry wine,   we're going to be using yeast nutrient to keep 
the yeast energized, we'll be using acid blend   to just kind of snap it up a little bit, and 
then we're going to be using pectic enzyme.   The pectic enzyme will break up the pectin, 
give you a nice clear wine at the tail end. The recipe that I'm following calls for just 
these three ingredients. I know that some   will actually have you add wine tannin to the 
raspberries. I will typically do that at the   final step to see if it needs it or not. Depends 
on how much of the tannin is drawn from the seed   when you put the fermentation bag into the 
wine. Depends on how much of that is extracted.   You can taste test that at the tail end when 
you're finishing off the raspberry wine. On the pectic enzyme it calls for a 
half a teaspoon, so it's two of these.  Make sure that this is nice 
and sterilized, nice and clean.  Just sprinkle it in on the top. Sometimes I   feel like the French chef, where it's some 
of this, some of that. It's a lot of fun! As far as the acid blend goes, the acid 
blend calls for three quarters of a teaspoon,   so that would be three of these. One. Two. Three. And yeast nutrient calls for one full teaspoon, 
so that would be four of these. One. Two. Three.   Four. They dissolve very quickly in the wine, 
and like I said, that keeps yeast nice and happy. Stir this in. You've already taken your specific 
gravity, so you know that that's correct. This is all stirred in. You notice the 
fruit is in a fruit bag off to the side;   it's a lot easier to stir the ingredients 
in with the fruit bag out of there.  So, now it's time to pitch the yeast. The yeast 
that's included with your kit is the prepared   Cotes du Blanc yeast, which is very good for 
fruit wines. At this point just open up the   package and you just simply dump it in. The yeast 
knows what to do, you don't even have to stir it.   Then all you have to do is add the fruit bag to 
it, that'll help to stir up the yeast as well,   and get everything started. Put a nice knot in 
your fruit bag make sure that all the pulp doesn't   disappear, and then you're actually including the 
fruit bag right into your fermentation bucket.   This will extract all the nice colors 
and the sugars that are left in the pulp.  When you've got a final wine, you want to make 
sure that it's nice, bright and red, and it looks   like the fruit you made it from. Strawberries 
can be kind of a reddish-orange, peach should   be light and almost clear, appears almost clear; 
choke cherry, black. Depends on what fruit that   you have, so at the tail end you want your wine to 
smell and look like the fruit that it came from. And then you pop the lid back on, make sure it's 
nice and airtight, and then attach your airlock.   Now, for the airlock what you want to do is you 
want to make sure that it has water, sanitation   solution, or some people even use vodka. What 
you want to make sure is that this airlock won't   dry out and you also want to make sure that if 
you have a reverse barometric pressure that it   doesn't suck something back into your wine.
So, you want to make sure that that is nice   and sanitary as well. As the yeast consumes the 
sugar it releases carbon dioxide. The carbon   dioxide will not only help to protect the wine 
from oxidation, but the airlock will allow that   CO2 to come out of the fermentation bucket so that 
it doesn't wind up bloating or blowing up on you. You want to keep this in a 65-to-70-degree 
area for the first week for a good fermentation   process. If you're doing a dark red fruit, you 
might want to do it a little bit warmer 72 to 74.   But, typically in a basement or a 
basement bathroom if you've got one;   typically, it's dark and it's nice and cool. The 
reason you want to slow down the fermentation   process is because if the fermentation process 
goes way fast then you're actually stressing   out your yeast and you'll get some off flavors 
you don't want those either. You want a pure   raspberry -- in this case -- a pure raspberry 
flavor at the tail end of it. You don't want   it tasting yeasty, so you want to keep these 
nice and happy, nice and cool, nice and dark. So, now that we've shown you how to make   fruit wine from a can, from a puree, 
from all sorts of different flavors,   a lot of you are probably wondering, 
well what happens if I grow my own fruit?   Well, there's a couple of different ways that you 
can still find fruit: you can get it in the store,   you can get it in the frozen food section, or 
from fresh. It’s basically the same process. Put it into the freezer, 
and then when it thaws out,   it's going to look like this. This is more - 
this is raspberries that I had in my backyard,   and same thing, I pick them every day, put them 
into a Ziploc bag to keep the oxygen off of them,   put them in the freezer. When I've collected 
three or four pounds with the raspberries,   then I can thaw them out and make my wine. The 
other thing nice about that is that they'll keep   fresh in the freezer for a few months, so 
if you're not ready to make the wine right   away they'll still be available to you. If you're 
picking raspberries or black raspberries or your   fruits, and like strawberries in June and July, 
you can put them in the freezer and then you can   have them available to make your wine during 
the fall. If you're working with apples, that   sort of thing's going to come in later on in the 
fall, same type of thing. So, you freeze those. And a lot of people ask too, 
that's a good question is,   why can't I just take them and put them into a 
blender and blend it all up and puree it myself?   Problem is that you cut into the seeds, and 
the seeds is where all the bitterness happens.   It's a lot of tannins, a lot of bitterness in 
the seeds. So, the easiest way is to freeze   them -- that breaks down the cell structure of the 
fruit -- then once they thaw out a lot of times   all you have to do is just cut a hole in the bag 
let the juice drain out. We use the fruit bag to   contain all of the pulp because that's essential 
in the color and the flavor for your wine as well. So, the reason that I freeze all of my fruit is 
not only to keep it fresh in the freezer, but   it also breaks down the cell structure, and you 
can do that with any type of fruit. An alternate   method, instead of freezing it, if you're 
going to be using whole fruit -- raspberries   or strawberries -- another way to do it from the 
fresh fruit is to chop it up into small pieces.   You can put it into the fermentation bucket, but 
then you add about three-quarters of a gallon of   very hot water -- not boiling because you don't 
want to cook the fruit -- but very hot water   and what that'll do is also break down the cell 
structure. The difficulty with that is now you've   got it all in a fermenter bucket. If I was to 
do it that way, just to be safe I would pour it   back into a straining bag just to contain all of 
the seeds. That way you don't have to play with a   sieve, worry about chopping up any of the seeds. 
That way you have it all contained. The ferment   process, the yeast is still going to be able to 
get at the color, and it's all going to extract   right from the fruit. You can do it either 
way, whichever way works best. What I found   is that freezing the fruit, breaking it down, 
and fermenting it that way works a lot faster. Okay, so now we're going to show you how to 
make wine from fresh fruit that's frozen,   that you receive right from the grocery store. 
You get it in the frozen food section, you take   it home and you can either put it in the freezer 
-- or if you're going to be fermenting right away,   take it out of the freezer and wait at least 
24 hours for it to come up to room temperature.   A really cold batch of wine isn't going 
to ferment, the yeast doesn't like it. So,   you want to make sure that you're up to about 
70 degrees or about in room temperature.   So, at this point, here we've got about 
-- with raspberries you want to have   about three to four pounds. And, a lot 
of times they're not packaged in pounds,   so you're going to have to do the math. These 
are in 12-ounce bags, so I'll do the math. We'll get started. First thing 
you want to do is tear these open.   Like I said, these have been thawed, and just 
dump them right into your fermentation bag.   This is where it gets fun, you might make a mess.   You want to preserve as much juice as 
you possibly can. The reason for the bag,   especially when you're using frozen fruit, is that 
you're able to maintain all of the flavor from the   raspberries, or if you've got black raspberries 
or whatever fruit that you're using,   and the color is going to be very important 
at the end. There we go, last one. The other hint that I have for you too, is that 
if you've got frozen fruit -- even if they're   in Ziploc bags that keeps the air out -- you'll 
still wind up with a little bit of fruit juice   that's in the bottom of your container. 
You can simply pour that back in here too   because I know all of you listened when I 
said you have to make sure that everything   is clean. So, even the bowl is 
clean when you first get started. So, now you've got all of your frozen fruit in 
the bag, and you can just let the juices drop out,   or you can take a nice tongs and squeeze 
as much of the juice out of it as you can.   What you want to do is extract as much 
of the juice as you can to start with,   but you don't want to squeeze really tight because 
you don't want to break any of the seeds. Remember   I said the seeds are the ones that have got 
all the tannins and all the bitterness to them. And the process after that is pretty 
much the same as the as the fruit   from the puree. Now that we've added our fresh 
fruit what we want to do is top this up with   a gallon of water to the gallon mark, and 
then we'll be adding some ingredients to it.   You want to extract as much of the 
fruit as you can at this point,   squeezing it with the tongs. So, let 
me remove this just for a second so   that we can add our ingredients. What we'll be 
adding today, we'll be adding pectic enzyme,   a half a teaspoon. Also, we want to add our acid 
blend, calls for three quarters of a teaspoon,   that's three of these. We also want to add some 
yeast nutrient and that will keep the yeast happy. When you're using fresh fruit that you've grown 
yourself or if you get it at the store the most   important part is to make sure that you have a 
Campden tablet in it that will kill any wild yeast   that might be on the fruit. The easiest way 
to do that is to take one of these Campden   tablets as pre-measured for one gallon batch and 
crush it between two spoons. You simply take it,   put it between two spoons, crush it 
up so that you've got a nice powder,   put that into about a quarter of a cup of lukewarm 
water so that it has a chance to dissolve. If you   put it directly into your must it might float 
on top and not really do what you want it to do.   Mix it in really nice, get it dissolved, pour that 
into your must, and then you can stir everything   else in. Again, a nice clean spoon that you're 
using to stir that all up. Now you wait 24 hours   for that Campden tablet to do its work. Add the 
fruit back in because that's going to extract   the color from the raspberries into your new wine, 
attach the cover and the airlock, wait 24 hours,   and then you pitch your yeast, and then 
you can move on to the second part. One thing to keep in mind when you're 
shopping for fresh frozen fruit in the store,   make sure that it's fresh-frozen, it 
doesn't have any preservatives in it.   If it has any kind of a sorbate 
or benzoate compound in it   to preserve its flavor, it is not fermentable. 
So, make sure that you've got fresh-frozen   fruit from the store without any preservatives; 
benzoate and sorbate are not your friend. For the purpose of demonstration,   we actually started a separate batch about a week 
ago so that we could show you the racking process,   moving the wine from the primary to the 
secondary. When the ferment process gets to   about 1.004 in your ferment process, it's time to 
rack your wine -- or siphon it -- into the carboy. So, what we've done -- you take the lid 
off, and you remove the fermentation bag   from the must. That's done at this point. Now what 
you want to do is you want to siphon this into   your carboy. What you want to do is you want to 
put that up onto a higher surface, so it makes it   a lot easier and then you've got gravity working 
for you. Now is when you use the siphon tube   and your one-gallon carboy, put it down into your 
fermentation bucket, down into your glass carboy,   and siphon it from your fermentation 
bucket without letting oxygen get on it.  As you notice that the color of the raspberry 
is a lighter colored pink at this point.   As it gets into the carboy it'll darken back up 
again. This stage of the siphoning process is   for the clearing process. What you want to do is 
get it off of all the dead yeast and the sediment   that's on the bottom of the carboy -- of the of 
the fermentation bucket -- at this point, and just   siphon over as clear of wine as you possibly can. 
This is where it will finish its ferment process   and then you can either use it for the clearing 
process or if you're going to be sweetening back,   doing any kind of back-sweetening, 
then you would do that at this point. Once it gets close to the end of the 
siphoning process you want to tip   the bucket up in the air a little bit but 
also you don't want to pick up any of the   sediment that's in the bottom of 
the bucket you leave that behind.  Now at this point, you want to put the airlock 
back on it. You can use the same airlock that   you had on the bucket before, but now in addition 
you want to make sure that no air can get in here.   You've got these handy little caps that exactly 
fits this three-piece airlock; screw this on,   put this in here, make sure 
you've got a nice level in here,   and it will continue to ferment. You can 
see the bubbles here; it's still fermenting.  When the airlock ceases to bubble,   you're pretty much done with your fermentation. 
Take another specific gravity reading and it   should be at about 0.099, or less than 1.000, 
and then you know your ferment is complete. Then we'll finish it off at that point. 
So, here we are we've gotten to the end,   missed a couple of steps; I’m 
gonna back up a second for you.   We showed you how to rack it from 
the primary into the secondary   and to let it finish fermenting. There's a 
couple more steps in there that you need to do   because you might have to rack it one or two more 
times to get it this clear because you're still   going to have some fallout, some sediment from 
the yeast, and the particulate that's in the wine.   So, after about the first week or two, after 
it's finished completion of its ferment process,   you'll need to rack it into another carboy. If you 
only have one of these jugs you could simply rack   it back into the bucket that was provided, 
clean the carboy out, and rack it back in.   Or you can invest in a second one of these, makes 
a lot easier. One-gallon jugs like this, cider   comes in, a lot of things come in them, so you 
could use one of those as long as it's sanitized So, the other thing, once it's completely clear 
from it you don't want to just immediately bottle   it. I'm going to taste test it first. We use 
what we call a bench trial where you'll take out   using your three-piece. Thief out a little bit 
of it and put it into three different glasses   taste it see what you think if it doesn't taste 
sweet enough for your taste then that's what we   call back-sweetening. At that point, in the kit 
you'll find some potassium sorbate; that's what   I told you not to use at the beginning. You use 
that at the end to prevent anything from further   fermentation. You’d add the potassium sorbate 
into this jug and then add a little bit of sugar,   stir it up really good, let it sit for about 
a day, and retest it. If it tastes good,   be ready for bottling. If it still needs 
a little bit of flavoring, you can add a   little bit more sugar. In some wines you might 
even have to add a little bit of a tannin to it.   If it doesn't taste sharp enough you can take 
some of the acid blend again that comes in the kit   and put a little bit in there, just 
to your taste. It's all up to you. Once you've got it completely stable and you 
like the way it tastes you're ready for bottling.   All you need to do at that point is to remove the 
cover and the airlock, and get out your racking   cane and your siphon. In this case you're going 
to be using the bottle filler. What I've done at   this point is I filled the whole thing with water 
after I sanitized it, and that's going to make it   a lot easier to get the siphon started -- a little 
trick that I learned. So, this is how this works.   You take this end -- it's got the tip on it -- 
put it in there you notice everything still has   water in it because you're completely no oxygen. 
At this point, put it into a glass jar off onto   the side someplace until you see the wine coming 
through. Once the wine gets to the bottom of the   bottle filler, then you're ready to bottle. Make 
sure your bottles are nice and clean as well.   I use a lot of brand-new bottles, but 
you can reuse bottles at that point;   just make sure that they're rinsed 
out really good, take the labels off,   and use a metabisulfite or your cleaning 
solution that you got in the kit. Then you simply need to just drop this 
down, that's got a spring tip on it   so that it doesn't leak all over the 
place. Simply put it down into the bottom   and start your fill. I've already got 
the siphon started, keep it down below   and away she goes.  It's a very pretty color too. 
I like working with raspberry.   When you're working with strawberry it comes out 
kind of an orange-ish color. When you're working   with apple it kind of comes out a golden color, 
depending on what kind of apples that you use.   Watermelon is tricky; it's a really light pink,   you almost can't even tell 
that it's being bottled. A gallon like this, once it's been fermented, 
will make about four and a half to five bottles of   wine. You can either use the tall 750 mL bottles 
like this. Or you can use what we call splits,   which is a 375 mL; you should be able to get about 
nine bottles out of a one-gallon batch of fruit   wine with these depending on if you're going to 
share or if you're going to drink it right away.   Usually, fruit wines you can drink 
within the first month or two afterwards,   but they taste a lot better 
after about six months to a year.   The heavier the fruit -- dark fruits and that sort 
of thing -- the longer you want to let them sit   in a nice cellar, back to where 
you were fermenting before. Now, in this situation here you notice 
I'm filling it all the way up to the top.   The reason I'm filling it all 
the way up to the top like that   is kind of counterintuitive, because you think, 
oh wait, I need to have enough room for the cork.   The nice thing about these bottle fillers is the 
bottle filler takes up exactly the amount of space   that you need for a cork, makes it simple as 
possible. Then because you've got a spring   tip bottle filler you just simply go back on to 
the next bottle and fill that one. Tip the jug   until you all the way down to the bottom of 
it, and if you don't quite have a full bottle,   you can either drink that one right 
away or you can transfer from there   into a split. If you've got a little bit in here 
got your glass handy – you’re taste testing! Now that we've shown you how to bottle this, 
we'll come back and show you how to get it corked,   stable and cellared. Okay, we're going to bottle 
the rest of the gallon jug in just a second.   First, I want to show you how easy it is to put 
a cork into the bottle. You take your cork, your   sanitized corker. This is a two-piece corker; you 
simply put the cork in the top of this thing, put   it over the top of it, and you just push it into 
the bottle. If you can't get it into the bottle   right off the get, you can hit it with a rubber 
mallet. And you're corked and you're ready to go!   There you go.
Just for comparison, this   is the bottle of wine that we just bottled. It's 
a very nice raspberry. Just for comparison this is   a bottle of raspberry that I bottled a couple of 
years ago and look at the color. That’s beautiful. Now that we've shown you how to make wine from 
fruit -- the fruit's in the labor -- right now   we get a chance to taste it. So, I'm going to try 
this, my raspberry wine from a couple years ago.   First thing you want to do is make sure 
that it smells like raspberry. Remember,   I said if it doesn't look like 
raspberry or smell like raspberry,   something went wrong. This 
one smells like raspberry.   Definitely tastes like raspberry. One of the 
reasons that you use fresh raspberries -- and   enough of the fresh raspberries -- is 
to get a full raspberry flavor to it. The other thing that you'll notice -- I don't 
know if you could see it on the video -- but are   the legs. That shows that you've got the right 
sugar content and the right alcohol content for   a nice balanced wine. The aroma is phenomenal. I 
mean it's a very nice bouquet of raspberry. When   you taste it, it wants to be crisp, you want it 
to taste like putting a raspberry in your mouth.   Except for, now you know that it's wine. But 
it will taste like tasting fresh raspberries.   That's why you have to have the acid, the 
sugar, and the alcohol all balanced in   order for it to be called what we call “full 
mouth.” So, when you take a sip of it and it   stays in your mouth, it's got a long-lasting 
flavor, that's what this has. Very, very nice. The other one of my favorites is elderberry. 
Very, very popular here. In fact, there's   even a category for it all by itself at the 
Minnesota State Fair. If you don't know what   elderberry smells like that's a great way to do 
it, is to go out and get a bottle of elderberry   and smell it first before you even try and make 
the wine. Very rich, very aromatic dark fruit,   very flavorful, tastes like an elderberry. That 
one was a blue-ribbon winner at the state fair --   so was that one -- so you can do it. Well, it's been a real pleasure for me to share 
with you on how I make wine from fruit. It's   been a lot of fun and you can see you can 
enjoy the fruits of your success as well.   Hopefully I've made it easy enough that you 
can make your own wine from fruit either from   the store bought or from your backyard. 
If you have any further questions at all,   please visit us at northernbrewer.com. If 
you've got any questions on any of the equipment   or any of the processes or any of the ingredients,   visit us and we'll be more than happy to answer 
any of your questions. Have a great day. Cheers!