Blackberry Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus, a collective name for the European bramble complex) is a scrambling deciduous shrub of the rose family, Rosaceae, native to hedgerows, woodland edges, and waste ground throughout Europe and introduced to North America and Australia. Its biennial canes, angled and armed with hooked prickles, arch 2 to 3 meters and root at the tips; the leaves have three to five toothed, dark green leaflets, often grey-felted beneath. White or pink flowers open in early summer and ripen into the familiar fruit of glossy black drupelets. The leaves are rich in tannin, and fermented they taste much like black tea. We extract the dried leaf.