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| Jam and Pickles |
What's available for wine this time of year?Hi all,This (hopefully ) will be my first time foraging. I want to make free wine 
It's Late Oct and I live in the NL, so northern Europe. What will I find out there in the countryside? Thanks for responses! Pickles |
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| Jamanda |
Still plenty of wild plums and sloes on the trees here. Might still be some rowan berries up there too - the birds have had them all here now. | ||
| sean |
Hmm, you're getting a bit late I think. But possibly, sloes/damsons/bullaces, crab apples... | ||
| gil |
Whitebeam, bletted by frosts, hence ready to make wine with.
Sloes, as Jamanda said. Hawthorn berries, though the wine is not that great. |
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| Rob R |
Far better using them as ketchup, I reckon. |
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| mihto |
Aronia? | ||
| dpack |
rowan for a dry white
medlars has anyone tried rose hip wine ? |
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| Rob R |
I definitely think more people should try making SLOE wine though 
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| gil |
Yes, it was OK, but I don't know that I'd bother making it again. Would maybe work better if sweeter. Most of the rosehips have been eaten by birds already. Medlar and pear wine [half and half] is shaping up nicely. All the rowans are gone round here. Birds again. Wild pear wine would be good, if you can find any. |
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| dpack |
eyes open
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| oliveoyl |
Acorns. | ||
| Jamanda |
Can you make wine out of acorns? 
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| sean |
You can make ersatz coffee out of acorns. And I've seen recipes for coffee wine. So presumably... | ||
| Jamanda |
Fairy nuff, but having spent quite some time this morning to work out which were pedunctulate and which were sessile oaks, the flaming squiggles seem to have had all the acorns. | ||
| Rob R |
I can sell you acorns 
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| cab |
I'm seeing whitebeam, apple, pear, sloe, rose hip and quince at the moment. |