HOW TO MAKE ELDERFLOWER CHAMPAGNE AT HOME - HOMEBREW

[@idontusetwitter]

Best recipe on KZbin for this I've found

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

Wow, thank you!

[@DC-gh1ds]

just a testimonial - this is indeed good stuff. on the third batch now and its very tasty. easy recipe too!

[@andersjonsson3292]

Living in the philipines, having liqor ban, I did mango wine, around 6-8 kilo of mango, 2 kilo of sugar, regular dry yeast, cause, the only yeast available, add water up to 20 liters, let it work a couple ow weeks, pass to another jug, rest 2 weeks, then bottle, taste awesome, just trying Mango pure, looking and smelling good too.

[@danjonesguitarist]

Thank you for a brilliant video! I have 2 elderflower trees here in France and will be making this soon!

[@lewisraj]

Nice one now I just need that goblet you made to drink it in Dustin....

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

Haha, no chance mate!

[@lewisraj]

What about the bowl?

[@SRN-24uk]

Thank you for the upload!!! Been wondering how you make that ever since I saw you and Mike have a bottle! Can't wait to give it a crack myself! Love the videos! And thanks for every video you put out man!

[@MrWineowine]

I need to try this! My wife loves Eldelflower!

[@Shaden0040]

I seee lots of wild mustard growing below the tree too! Spade shaped leaf, with toothed edges, and small white flowers with two paired petals with on stamen and 4 pistals. It can have a hot garlicky flavor.

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

Well spotted

[@BraxxJuventa]

Very cool! Thanks Dustin! 👍😁

[@stevemcdermott6199]

Fantastic buddy I'm going to do this tomorrow

[@alexanderbertallo1995]

Thank you for the tutorial...

[@AshOutdoorsUK]

Mate, I’ve been wanting to do this for years! Going to have to do it now!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻👌🏼 🥂

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

Give it a try, it's dead easy and super tasty!

[@AshOutdoorsUK]

BUSHCRAFT TOOLS I sure will 👌🏼 already got the home brew kit 👍🏼👍🏼

[@bodgecrafterchris8946]

Awesome video might have to try and make some

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

It's super tasty!

[@janeysue6487]

Very interesting video. Thanks. Watched it twice.

[@ArielleViking]

Awesome recipe, I wish these flowers grew here in the wild. Shared on my personal FB page, cooking group page and Twitter account. ❤

[@MarifilMathersinScotland]

Brialliant! Finally found this video. Very helpful.

[@laytonosullivan158]

Thanks Dustin for the great, simple little video. Just one question, did you use caster sugar (I think I recognise those packets) or ordinary granulated sugar in your recipe and does it really matter what type of sugar you use? I'm assuming it's a matter of caster sugar being easier to dissolve? Thanks again.

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

Thanks Layton. I use caster sugar

[@ollepearce3116]

U will love to come to Newton popple ford it's near Exeter but it's a little village with loads of green land they have a public common they have a public river with loads of vegetables u can take they have lots of wild garlic and a river witch no one goes to because it's in a tiny village and it's got massive fish loads of sticks to make a hut/den it is perfect and the odd 1 or 2 go there

[@rachaelwyatt754]

Dustin I need your help or input please. I have a fire making bow drill set and also a carbon steel thing for flint and steel. I need a way to send you pictures of what I have in the hope that you can advise and or help me. Rachael *one of your mods*

[@MsCaleb79]

Champagne bottles! Pop! Pop! Pop!

[@LatelyOggy]

Nice video! I have just tried this recepie. My third year in a row doing it but this year i have decided to follow yours and use yeast. When i removed the elderflower heads and everything else there were quite a few black floating specs at the surface, i removed quite a few of them. Im now wondering if that was a mistake, as ive not seen any major bubbles in the bubbler? Was it maybe yeast?

[@WestCountryAngler]

Now this is a good video!! 👍

[@althiel01]

Hmmm,Vojta likes this very much :D

[@nicolemurphy2629]

WOW very clever ❤

[@Teast55]

Going to try this in a few weeks - any tips on preventing the glass bottles from exploding?

[@Paulus4345]

Use champagne bottles

[@karengoodard9466]

Denis from Canada says cheers bro

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

Cheers Denis

[@Co-nun-drum]

Hey Dustin. When you leave it for 14 days does it have to be in a dark cold room?

[@ollepearce3116]

I still can't get over I won like I never win u are so nice

[@marcheasman4557]

I followed your recipe and have bottled it today I really hope it turns out fizzy after the 14 days

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

Let me know how it is

[@madnotbad44]

Great recipe and well explained. Anyone making elderflower wine or champagne try to get the flowers from the taller tree type elder as the smaller hedge type elder has a funny smell and can give a bad taste. Give them a sniff and if they smell like cat piss go on to another tree 😊

[@NeilGoater]

Hey Dustin. How did you get the wine so clear? I'm just about to bottle it and it is very murky. Did you use finings? Thanks for the great video.

[@BH-re4nu]

Great vid, thanks for sharing! 24 hours for the infusion doesn't seem very long ... have you tried longer and what's the thinking behind the timings you've settled on?

[@bigbark4627]

Great question. Just stumbled across this vid in 2023. Shame he didn't bother replying, did you find any answers?

[@guitarnotator]

So is there not enough natural yeast in the flowers without the adition to produce alcohol?

[@Mehmetcann]

Mate, thanks for the video I've been looking for it 💯 but I really wonder that what I might use instead elderwood flower,really hard to find here 😅

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

No problem 👍

[@hope4lifewalker739]

Dig it!! Love the cut!!

[@gloucesterbootcamp5479]

Do you need to release some gas every now and then from the bottles (burping)? To stop them from exploding? Cheers 👍

[@kmconlon81]

I also wonder this especially with the added yeast packet.

[@marcomcdowell8861]

UK moonshine!

[@sparkysteve3780]

What did you do to carbonate the champagne?

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

The fermentation process will carbonate it for you. The addition of a pinch of sugar added to the bottle prior to filling will ensure fizz!

[@sparkysteve3780]

@@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS I never knew that,i had to use tablets in each bottle when I made larger

[@skydivingcomrade1648]

What's the math to use honey in place of sugar?? Looks perfect.

[@MrSergiu-ih2mj]

Is around 1kg sugar to 1.2 kg honey

[@simoley1]

Do you need to burp the bottles once in a while to release some pressure, just wondering as I’m going to use old champagne bottles with plastic cork and cage?

[@bigbark4627]

This is a great question, wonder why no reply? Did you find an answer to this, how did your batch turn out? I realise it's a few years since you're comment 🍾🥂

[@AnthonyQuade]

What about making mead?

[@Zen_Law]

Keep goin mate I personally enjoy your videos. Cheers 🥂🥂

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

Thanks for watching

[@81dedhed]

I've never seen a brew with vinegar in it?!? What does it add to the brew?

[@MarlinsManFan]

D Payne plz don’t h8 me but there’s a elderflower liquor St. Germaine u can geton

[@Wayne-fe1ed]

Awesome work there. I'm guessing the basic process is the same with any flavourings?

[@jayjay20013455]

Can I use beer yeast instead of champagne yeast? Thanks

[@davidc4983]

You're going to get different flavor characteristics, and depending on your strain you might not have the same alcohol tolerances, which, if this comes out strong, will mean you'll develop off flavors as the beer yeast struggles in the alcohol rich environment.

[@ChrisGem20]

Have you had the isolation hair cut lol

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

Haha. Not yet. This was actually filmed last year

[@ChrisGem20]

I did wonder with the hair haha .. good video by the way 👍🏻

[@virginiacopeland108]

Thumbs up!!! Clark

[@ollepearce3116]

Wow

[@ollepearce3116]

How r u

[@Kalascula]

Where I'm from we call the "bubbler" a water lock :P

[@nobleenchantpbkc8082]

yum

[@simik1231]

Good video for home-brewing. But there is really no sense in sterilising all the equipment except the bottles. Flowers naturally contain lot of bacteria and yeast and also if you leave anything sterilised on fresh air even for the second, microbes will start to grow. I recommend to put just a tiny bit of sulphur dioxide to the mixture of flowers, water and limes which will kill wild microbes but do not have effect on champagne yeast. But you need to be careful with amounts because if you overkill it, all the microbes will die.

[@MrAwawe]

0:44 Pollen is not yeast, yeast is not pollen. Pollen are microscopic multicellular capsules containing a plant's sperm cells; yeast is a unicellular fungal organism which is completely separate from plants. Yeast has nothing to do with pollen. They come from two completely different kingdoms of eukaryotes: plants and fungi.

[@Medietos]

What do you mean by 2/3 lemons, meaning two thirds, or did you want to say 2 to 3 (2-3)? Please tell us and show how you suck without getting germs on to the hose. Is it just by keeping your tongue away and lips agood bit oiff the opening, I suppose? What does the vinegar do? Why no black tea? What's the duifference with boiling the flowers and lemons? What depress Celsius is good for the 3 stages? Is the last brewing not cooler? Or at least the final storage? How long does it keep? And how long should one let it mature before using, please? Alcohol % I got just a tiny bit at 15 y o, maybe 1%. No risk of bottles exploding at 10 % alcohol? - Thank you, lovely.

[@hansolofholmberg2071]

Describe the vacuum-sucking without making bacteria please. Temperatures (in C?) What about risk of explosion, does one HAVE to buy expensive champagne bottles?¨ What do you think of using ordinary baking yeast? Is your chapmagne dry then? In order to get less alc, doesn one just decrease sugar? Thank you if you can ansewr, and be well!

[@kmconlon81]

Baking yeast is different than brewer's or wine or champagne yeast. I wouldn't use it in this recipe.

[@stevanavich]

Surely the lemon and lime flavours dominate when there's that many of them, no?

[@bigbark4627]

Yes, great question and I thought the same. Also, after all the lemon and lime is the vinegar needed?

[@kmconlon81]

@@bigbark4627 Yes because the juice and the peel (really you can just zest and juice them. I wouldn't throw the whole carcass in) add much needed citric acid which helps preserve the beverage as well as feed the yeast. You'll find citrus in pretty much all elderflower champagne recipes.

[@ollepearce3116]

That is sick

[@fulguralces750]

Isnt that hog weed?!?!

[@BlueShedProd]

:)

[@cogybear]

Hope you’re not taking all those flowers from one tree !!

[@antonioj.2147]

I really doubt that it tastes good, there's nothing to give it tanin and body, there's nothing to give it sweetness, there's no nutrient for the yeast so it's possible that there are off flavors. 1 month very little time for it to mellow out and taste good, you haven't done a tasting or a description of the drink. I have some experience with homebrewing and I wouldn't recommend this.

[@downinthemuff]

I’ve made it loads of times, slightly different recipe and it tastes great. I’d recommend maturing in the bottle for a couple of months for a better flavour.

[@jeremy87turbo87]

The thing you call a bubbler is called an airlock...... for those that don't know what it does or is what it does is when the fermentation is taking place it builds up a gas and expands and it releases the gas

[@BUSHCRAFTTOOLS]

Great explanation. Many thanks