Black currants be poppin' on this bush 
Haul from the whole patch 
I'm gonna make a quart of black currant wild melomel (fruit mead), and see how it turns out.
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I am absolutely obsessed with blackcurrants πππ
They're funky. I don't know anything like them
oh man that looks good. do you make anything with them. can you eat them plain like that
They're pretty good plain if you like musky and sour things. The few that dried on the bush taste like a better version of a raisin. I'm making a quart of mead with them, and another quart with elderflower. They'll be my first batches of mead, so I have no idea how they will turn out.
bro i love mead and both of these flavours are some of my favourites
I've had mead twice. The first time was a very sour blueberry mead that tasted like over-fermented kombucha. The second was a black cherry mead with whisky barrel chunks thrown in and I think some vanilla. It was literally the best alcoholic drink I have ever had. Hands down. Bar none. The absolute best thing I ever drank.
The raw black currant mead tastes like really good cranberry sauce. 
Let me know how the currant melomel turns out! Iβm planning on doing one with foraged mulberries
I wanted to do Mulberry wine this year, but it got hot and they dried up
They are just ripening here in Michigan
I'm down in Ohio, the ones along my road looked like they were about to have a second round, but the rain stopped 2 weeks ago and we've been over 90 for the better part of the last two weeks. I think the whites will ripen later. Might have to go cruising to find some.