What should I do?

[Jogeephus]

Picked about 30 lbs of scuppernongs and was considering the altermatives.

 

[1982vett]

Well Jogee.... Ifn I knos you like I thinks I dos.....that aint a hard one to figure once you know what a Scuppernog is.

http://southernfood.about.com/od/bevera ... 80919e.htm

 

[Anonymous]

What exactly is a scuppernong?

 

[chippie]

I voted for wine. My husband has 10 gallons or so of Mustang grape wine working in an air conditioned storage building. The best wine that he made was a mix of mulberry and wild grapes.

 

[pdfangus]

I VOTED FOR OPTION 2 JUST TO SEE IF YOU COULD PULL IT OFF.....LOL

 

[Jogeephus]

What exactly is a scuppernong?

Its similar to a muscadine but it comes from the carolinas and they are light green balls of sugar.

Pdfangus, that was my first choice but after I got that look I figured I best just make some wine. Got about six gallons on now and its just started to ferment.

Chippie, I've heard good reviews on the Mustang grapes. We don't have them here but I think they would be similar to our wild muscadines. There was some grapes crossed in Texas that are very similar to those in France but they would take our southern heat. Seems like someone at Texas A&M came up with them. I was supposed to get some this spring but I forgot.

 

[CottageFarm]

Yep, I voted for the wine. I figure if you're going go to all the trouble of juicing them, might as well do what grapes do best!

 

[cow pollinater]

I didn't see an option for running them through a power juicer and using the juice for wine and the scraps for livestock feed and then having my wife....nevermind...
Juicing first is a quick way to make some pretty good wine. I ran some half frozen persimmons through a juicer today and dumped the juice into a batch of mead. You get all the taste but not the haze and you're left with free chicken feed.

 

[cow pollinater]

What exactly is a scuppernong?

DUH... It's the thingy in the picture. :dunce:

 

[Jogeephus]

Just racked some blueberry wine and kept a small glass for test purposes. Apparantly 2012 was a good year for berries because this is showing some real promise.

 

[James T]

Well Jogee.... Ifn I knos you like I thinks I dos.....that aint a hard one to figure once you know what a Scuppernog is.

http://southernfood.about.com/od/bevera ... 80919e.htm

Thank you , Vett! I was scratching my butt wondering what the heck he was talking about. Cheers Jogee! Option #2, no question.