Elderflower Wine Continued

It's been a funny few days of showers and sunshine but today it started bright and dry and stayed that way, so today we had the weather on our side and picked our Elderflowers

This is our favourite tree and always gives us plenty of great smelling flowers (you can't even tell we've picked from it!), tho there are many others very near by. Just to the right is the river.

 The flowers were put straight into these bags, pollen falling from them as they were picked. Then the bags were tied up and they'll stay this way until tomorrow when they'll get shaken about and hopefully all fall from their stems. The fermenting bin underneath has the 4 gallons of base brew in it. There's more than enough flowers here for 4 gallons, so I'll top up the base brew to 5 gallons. The story continues here.

We'll go picking again soon get the remaining flowers to make a further few gallons. Which will be following my original recipe and method.