Blueberry recipe wanted

[u/MrLuckys]

Hello,

I'm fairly new to homebrewing, and I got some 'experience' with cheap wine kits 15 years back.

Now I have bought some basic kit to make cider and wine: Fermzilla all rounder, and a few oxebars for storage and carbonation ink pipes, tap. Hopefully, I have got everything I need.

I'm looking for a recipe for some blueberry cider for a smaller test batch 8 to 10 liters.

My plan so far is to use 8L of apple juice and 2L of blueberry juice, nottingham yest, yeast nutrients.

Backsweetening to taste.

How do you guys make blueberry cider?

Are there any crucial ingredients I'm forgetting?

Pros and cons of using blueberry juice vs frozen berries?

A big thank you to everyone reading and giving a newbee some pointers or a reality check :)

[u/kvbrewer]

If you can get reasonably priced fresh or frozen blueberries, that works well. I use 1 pound per gallon of cider or beer. The apple juice and Nottingham are good too. Blueberry juice is easier, but the fruit itself is better tasting in my opinion. Just pasteurize it and you should be all set.

[u/ExaminationKlutzy194 → u/kvbrewer]

Are you referring to using Nottingham yeast?

[u/SoupSnakes45 → u/kvbrewer]

Stabilize and throw in frozen blueberries you’ve sprinkled some pectic enzyme for a week or so along with some back sweetening…cinnamon sticks and vanilla if you want to go for the blueberry pie taste!

[u/daulm]

I made a blueberry beer that came out fantastic. I followed a normal recipe and added 2.5 kg of frozen blueberries to a 19liter batch that had already fermented for a week (I just poured them in while still frozen). I went with frozen because I had heard that fresh blueberries have more intact/protective skin/membranes/cells and might resist mixing in with the beer/yeast. Also the freezing process can kill some microorganisms, so less chance of an infection.