Comments on: How to Make Homemade Banana Wine http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2011/10/13/how-to-make-homemade-banana-wine/ Fri, 24 May 2013 06:07:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Donovan http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2011/10/13/how-to-make-homemade-banana-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-17821 Donovan Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:11:46 +0000 http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/?p=1977#comment-17821 Great! Cant wait to start this this weekend!

]]> By: Marie Porter http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2011/10/13/how-to-make-homemade-banana-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-17760 Marie Porter Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:55:05 +0000 http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/?p=1977#comment-17760 Hi there! Thanks for your interest in Celebration Generation!

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]]> By: godfrey http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2011/10/13/how-to-make-homemade-banana-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-17759 godfrey Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:43:54 +0000 http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/?p=1977#comment-17759 am happy to read this information am interested to start producing banana wine for business can you give me ratios to produce wine in lager volume

]]> By: Steve http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2011/10/13/how-to-make-homemade-banana-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-16617 Steve Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:53:41 +0000 http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/?p=1977#comment-16617 I like the idea of a banana wine, and am definitely going to ferment a batch up. A friend just told me he started one.

Just have a couple questions:

How ripe is too ripe (or is it, it can only be too green)? In your pics you posted, the bananas skin is just getting spotty.
One poster said she put bananas in freezer, no doubt this turns these suckers black & are then super ripe. Also she peeled the bananas.

Are there no off flavors produced with the skin on?
And some of you run the skins through the food processor or juicer along with the fruit??
Seems like eliminating the peelings would be the correct thing to do to eliminate the bitters of the peel?? Am I missing something here. Or I guess the other half of that question is: Do the peelings impart favorable things to this wine (fermentables, flavor, what)?

Has anybody done this recipe EXCLUDING the golden raisins& if so how does it alter the final products flavor or what? It seems like the only reason for them is to punch up the alcohol content.. is that a correct assumption?

Also for the yeast, I’m leery of the champagne yeast, from my memory that yeast rocks out the fermentation super fast and maybe that’s where your getting your higher alcohols that take so long to age out?

I like the Lalvin & use D-47 for most of my fruit wines & have used Lalvin EC-1118 for an apple butter cyser, due to the higher alcohol content & that yeast handles that quantity of fermentables nicely. EC-1118 processes comfortably to 18% alcohol content, if I kill the raisins, that would probably drop 4 % off the final ABV content & work for this.

I’d really appreciate any and all feedback on these questions, I’m seriously anxious to get a batch of this started!

Steve

]]> By: Gerald J http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2011/10/13/how-to-make-homemade-banana-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-16567 Gerald J Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:15:29 +0000 http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/?p=1977#comment-16567 I am deffenatly going to make the Banana wine useing your recipe I have often wondered if one could make banana wine and how would it tast ! So I am going for it THX FOR THE RECIPY AND DIRECTIONS

]]> By: robert http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2011/10/13/how-to-make-homemade-banana-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-16453 robert Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:12:46 +0000 http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/?p=1977#comment-16453 What the? I’ll try again. accidently doubled the recipe using kg instead of lbs so now I have 13 gallons!

]]> By: robert http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2011/10/13/how-to-make-homemade-banana-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-16452 robert Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:11:39 +0000 http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/?p=1977#comment-16452 Followed the recipe to the letter only thing is, (needing bifocals), I didn’t think to look when I was weighing my bananas and instead of lbs, I had kg on the scale, so my 21 pound batch ended up being 40lbs. The supermarket was singing, “Yes, we have no bananas, because robb can’t follow a recipe today”. Anyhow, since I was using a sankey key to cook in, I just doubled everything else and now I have two fermenters full of banana wine! Christmas presents, yeah, Christmas presents! The sankey keg was great, it was free from a neighbor complete with 12 year old aged beer in it when I cut the top off. 15 gallons of stainless steel with handles. Works better than a turkey pot.

]]> By: Laurie http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2011/10/13/how-to-make-homemade-banana-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-16403 Laurie Sun, 02 Sep 2012 01:05:03 +0000 http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/?p=1977#comment-16403 I was given a case of bananas, so I put the whole thing into the deep freeze for a week, then peeled the bananas and have followed your recipe, it smells good right now!

]]> By: mike http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2011/10/13/how-to-make-homemade-banana-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-16395 mike Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:55:51 +0000 http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/?p=1977#comment-16395 never got to finish above post , a very useful wine for blending to other white wines needing more body,

]]> By: mike http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2011/10/13/how-to-make-homemade-banana-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-16394 mike Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:50:31 +0000 http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/?p=1977#comment-16394 i make this wine frequently i buy up ripe bananas in the super markets its an easy wine to do, good flavor, plenty of body, a very usfull wine

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