Making Pokeberry Ink

[Marker]

I am working on making some Pokeweed ink.

Have any of you ever done this?

I get the juice out of all of the berries. The next step is to ferment the ink.
I will be making at least there different types;

one with adding just vinegar, one with adding yeast, and one by adding some type of Alcohol.

I am not too sure which batch will work the best...

Right now I have over three quarts of the juice.

This was a messy job..

 

[Donnie Kennedy]

Add a little sugar and you'll have wine... seriously though, I'm interested in what you'll come up with.

 

[firewhatfire]

can I get some in cartridges?

 

[Marker]

can I get some in cartridges?

What type of Cartridges, Can I somehow seal these in some type of Fountain pen Cartridge?

I will most likely be picking a lot more berry in the next two weeks....as most of the berries are still green, and I expect them to be ripe soon.


Right now I am thinking of just freezing the juice until I get the recipe perfected.

 

[firewhatfire]

just messing with ya. I would think you would get more on you than you had the pic trying to put it in a cartridge.

Phil

 

[glen r]

The color of your hand reminds me of sheep's lips after they are beets that we had thrown into their food trough. Nothing funnier than seeing a bunch of sheep with lipstick on. Would the color of beet juice be close to the color you have now?

 

[ShallowJam]

Refilling fountain pen cartridges with a syringe is pretty common. You wouldnt be able to seal it, but just use a bottle of your ink and load it up. You don't need a converter to use whatever ink you want.

 

[Dan Hintz]

Nothing funnier than seeing a bunch of sheep with lipstick on.

None gettin' their heads stuck in fences, now, are they, Glen? :wink: :tongue:

 

[Charlie_W]

When I was a kid, I squeezed a little poke berry juice and sucked it up in an old bladder fountain pen. It worked enough for me to have fun.