Has anybody done banana wine?

[roaduck]

I fancy going to the market this weekend and getting some bananas and coconuts and bunging in some indian Jaggery.

Obviously I`m gonna use nearly dead black bananas that are really ripe to get the maximum natural sugars like the fructose, maltose and sucrose.I`m just gonna blag the guy on the stall and get `em for nowt probably especially if I buy some fresh veg for Sunday dinner from him.

If I do a standard 5 gallon/40 pint brew - I`ll try say 10 lbs of bananas, 5 lbs of coconuts including milk and say 10 lbs of jaggery which I`ll grate like cheese over a warm must with some champagne yeast.

I want it to come out like the creature from the ivy shed wine (ie: deadly) but tasty and smooth.If it turns out drinkable I might get my mate to breathe on it so it ends up like a rum effort.

[Kev888]

I made (plain) bana wine many, many years ago - from cheapo bananas being sold off at the end of market day. To be honest I can't remember much about it - all I recall is that it was a clear golden colour and tasted nice enough as a sweetish desert wine (retained some decent bananaryness) but gave me really bad hangovers for some reason.

Cheers
kev

[roaduck]

Thanks for the advice kev888 I don`t mind a hangover if it tastes okay.

[Kevin]

This sounds really tasty!!!

[second2none]

I like the sound of Indian Jaggery!!
Thank you for bringing this to my attention
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggery)

I have wanted to use coconut in my brews but have been worried that the milk will curdle or go sour if not refridgerated,
are you just throwing things together or is this a tried and tested method?

[Rookie]

I like the sound of Indian Jaggery!!
Thank you for bringing this to my attention
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggery)

I have wanted to use coconut in my brews but have been worried that the milk will curdle or go sour if not refridgerated,
are you just throwing things together or is this a tried and tested method?

Every so often I brew a coconut wheat ale. I only use dried unsweetened coconut and none of the milk. Wheat and coconut go good together.
I'm not sure about the going sour issue, but I never see coconuts in the cooler at the store. On the other hand it is fruit juice and once exposed to the air it could go off.

[Manx Guy]

Hi,

I did a banana wine a while back and i turned out quite drinkable....

See topic:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=24262&p=307032&hil ... ne#p307032

Your idea sounds interesting... Let us know how you get on!



Guy

[jason123]

I'm not sure about the going sour issue, but I never see coconuts in the cooler at the store. On the other hand it is fruit juice and once exposed to the air it could go off.

I often put fruit juice into a beer kit to make something different. Once it gets into the fermenter the usual rules of keeping stuff in the fridge disappear. I'd hazard a guess that the volume of CO2 displacing any air in the head space of the fermenter and the yeasties consuming air in the liquid remove the oxygen present so helps keep everything fresh.

[shazza]

hi guys.mate of mine used to make ban.wine 20 odd years ago but he only used the skins,not the pulp(fruit);seems that the pulp produces pectin-like hazes that are immune to pectolase and thus he could not achieve a clear wine (despite filtering).I remember he also used raisins in the process.The end product was quite drinkable and several small restaurants/bistros in Dublin used to sell it as their "house white".He made it in a huge wooden barrel in his garage.I do recall it mixed quite favourably with a bellyful of Guinness and produced few ill-effects.

[Kevin]

Every so often I brew a coconut wheat ale. I only use dried unsweetened coconut and none of the milk. Wheat and coconut go good together.
I'm not sure about the going sour issue, but I never see coconuts in the cooler at the store. On the other hand it is fruit juice and once exposed to the air it could go off.

I LOVE the sound of this!

So do you use desiccated coconut, Rookie?

I'd love to give coconut wheat beer a try but I only do kit brewing... Any idea what I can do to this coopers wheat beer kit I've got here to make it coconut?

Cheers,

Kevin