Banana wine 1&2

[Janulka098]

First time making banana wine! What a revelation. This lockdown has definitely got some hobbies developed :)
Tasted first one - very slight banana undertone but tastes more like full bodied white wine. Boiling bananas in sugar with raisins for 45 minutes and then leaving them to cool, pitching yeast, pectolase and strong brew. And forgetting about it for three weeks... racking on campden. Well it is looking good!
Banana number two still fermenting although strained it a bit earlier and added some tinned peaches.. will see what’s the difference between these two

 

[Nev166]

What recipe did you use?
Interested to see how they turn out!

 

[GerritT]

RECIPES!! RECIPES!! RECIPES!!

 

[Janulka098]

Hello. Used basic recipe
Used 1.5-2kg bananas Or there abouts
250raisins
900g sugar
Three bag brew
Citric acid
Pectolase
Yeast and nutrient

Chopped bananas (Half with skins), put in a big pot with raisins and sugar and 2l water. Brought to simmer and simmered for 45 minutes. Left to cool and strained into a fermenter squeezing it through strain bag. Put couple of scoops of goo in (mainly raisins) to ferment together. Topped up with water to 5l. Took hydrometer reading adjusted to 1090. Pectolase, yeast, three bag brew, citric acid.
Loosely put lid on and left in corner of room for three weeks - stirring daily for first week to stop Krausen drying out.
Strained to demijohn (it smells like sick at this point!!!! And did not have high hopes) onto a campden and topped up with apple juice what was lost. Left for two weeks and it threw lots of sediment and started clearing. Probably should have left it longer but did not like the funk on the bottom so racked off again (no campden this time as doing every other racking - and it stopped smelling like sick and started to smell like something you might actually drink) - this time topped up with boiled cooled water, and it’s now put away under air lock for a few months to condition and clear some more before final racking onto campden and bottling.
Thought it would take longer but I think the warm weather last month helped it to go faster.
Had a sneaky taste and tastes boozy with very very slight hint of bananas but more like full bodied white. It needs to be left for at least half a year so might try bottle at Christmas and Easter to see the difference.
The other done the same but had some frozen tinned peach halves from another wine batch and threw them in the pot to cook together with bananas.

 

[GerritT]

three bag brew

That's 2 pints of water and 3 bags of black tea?

 

[Janulka098]

That's 2 pints of water and 3 bags of black tea?

Hello. Just used big half a litre cup with three bags of tea and left for 10 min to brew

 

[Janulka098]

The one without peaches tastes better in my opinion... don’t know but the peaches sort of gave the other one like a slight rotting aroma - but it’s still too early to be honest and might end up brilliant.