Banana wine

[Issy]

Has anyone else tried making this?? Bought 4 pounds of bananas yesterday for 80p and this afternoon made Banana wine - this is the second time I have made this - it really is delicious! hello

[Paulie]

Has anyone else tried making this?? Bought 4 pounds of bananas yesterday for 80p and this afternoon made Banana wine - this is the second time I have made this - it really is delicious! hello

No, but I might try. Can you share the recipe please?

[Issy]

Ok here goes:
4 pounds of bananas
1/2 banana skins
100 ml grape concentrate
1 lemon
1 0range
3 pounds sugar
1 gallon water
Yeast
Amylase

Put the peeled bananas with the skins and fruit peel into a cotton bag - tie the bag and bring to the boil with the water for 1/2 hour. Pour the hot liquor over the sugar and fruit juice. When bag has cooled squeeze to extract as much liquor as possible. When this has cooled add the Amylozyme and 24 hours later the yeast. Leave for a week stirring every day. Pour into a Demi John with an airlock - you will need to siphon it off after 4 months to clear the sediment. Add the grape concentrate - leave for six months.

[the big lebowski]

sounds great issy , bananas have always been somthing ive always thought about using hope it works out for you ,cheers

[Issy]

Give it a go! I made it last year - one of the easiest wines to make - you will love it!!!

[4Shoes]

Amylase
Going to have to look through my Alchemy box and ask Mr Googles to see what it is...

Okay ... Nearly as good as google, but from local wine store site... Amylase:-
"used when making wine from vegetables like beetroot or carrots. It converts the large complex starches into fermentable sugars"

so has other potential uses as well as bananas

Think Issy may need to revisit "Easiest" Definition...
9 months to a year for 6 bottles of wine to me needs to be special case
Does using black bananas work?

Interesting. One to think about after the move and man cave conversion complete.

One think I do have is Demijohns. Collected my wine making kit from family and ended up with a boot load of them

[Issy]

Recipe came from "first steps in winemaking". Every kind of wine you can think of - very good book.

[the big lebowski]

well i have made mine but ive put a twist on it and used honey too
2 kg of bananas
1.2 kg og honey
500 grms of sugar
yeast
ill see how it gets on hows the racking coming along issy ?

[Issy]

Hello! At last the banana sediment is moving down the Demi John - as soon as it has reached the bottom will recant into another bottle - will post a pic when that is done!

[the big lebowski]

i racked my banana mead today from a 10 liter fv into a 1 gallon demijon ,its abit cloudy but looks,tastes and smells good ,ill leave it 2 weeks and see if it needs another racking then ,cheers

[Issy]

The sediment seems to be moving - it was right down the bottom of the Demi john the other day and now it's moved up again- I really should have racked it but so busy did not get round to it - Tuber what did you think of the taste??? Hello

[Issy]

I racked mine yesterday so now left with about half a gallon of banana wine - its as clear as a bell and tastes really good !

[Issy]

Just bottled some banana wine last night and just for interest used the hydrometer to see the strength - it was saying fifteen per cent - this must be a fluke but it tasted really good!!