Banana Wine, Part Two: How is it so Far?
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Banana Wine, Part Two: How is it so Far? We started a banana wine a while back and it's time to check it out again. See how it did. Does it need adjustments? Additions? Let's find out.
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Banana Wine Racking: • Banana Wine Racking
Banana Wine - Time to Rack and Bottle?: • Banana Wine - Time to ...
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I made a banana wine recently, it was pretty darn good after finishing in 6 days. That was a week ago, and I'm waiting another week to see if the fruit flavors have come out more. I boiled the banana and skins for an hour, strained it, added yeast, then minced pineapple 3 days later.
How this show hasn't been put on PBS yet I just don't know. Thanks for the peek into the brew guys. Really appreciate all of your content ❤!
PBS? Nah, they'd censor us, lol.
Y'all should try doing an intro in the PBS voice. LOL
I bet you guys could pull off a Bob Ross or This Old House parody intro for the channel. 👍
One theory about artificial banana flavor is that is developed based on the Gros Michel variety, which were virtually wiped out by a fungal blight and is no longer commercially viable. Currently, Cavendish are the type that you usually find in stores. The Gros Michel tastes much more like artificial banana.
Bananas as wine. Yummy! Love the look on Brian's face when he says that he has to wash his hands
The look on Derica's face "Ohh Banana what have we done to you" . Classic Shakespear
That imitation banana flavor is actually Isoamyl acetate. The yeast you used is known to produce a lot of it, when in non banana type things. Using it with bananas I imagine really produces a ton of it. I'm going to be trying this one out soon, with some D47.
The best banana is the banana you like to eat, the way you like to eat it.
How do you banana?
I greatly appreciate both of you! Thank you for such great information!
You are welcome!
5:39 Brian is getting very good at his silent Muffliato charm
"Brew like a Viking not a Chemist"
I love the shirt 😍
Can we get a tour video of whats under the desk of fermentation?
I 2nd this idea
Dericas face on tasting 😂
Banana wine has certainly been a confusing yet intriguing one to look into. Confusing as in “why?” Haha.
It's really good actually.
Good morning Brian and Derica. With the use of brown sugar, are you expecting a "rum" like flavoring? Also, what are the S.G. amounts for a pound of white sugar, brown sugar, molasses, maple syrup, and honey to a gallon of water?
Thanks so much guys it's done came out at 16.41 abv witch is just fine tast great shared with a friends and they liked it too thanks again cheers you both are inspiring stay healthy 🍻
Beginners trial run ageing as we type. Managed to buy a demijohn *n* two brewing buckets with a few airlocks. Friend just gifted me a case containing a thermometer *n* 3 Hydrometers. A wild garden with Apple trees *n*amongst thorns are many beautiful blackberries has come to my attention, lol. Hoping by xmas for a dry, red delight *n* a house still standing, ha ha ha. Many Thanks for your encouraging vids, love *n* light from England. Which wine do you both favour? Is mixing different sugar ok, caster *n* brown demerrera?
You just answered my sugar mixing question, you both do that an awful lot, lol, answering my thoughtful queries. Bless you both, catch this hug, xx
So do you continue to swirl or stir the banana wine at this point and if so how many days do you do this? Because you said that you were going to let it sit for another 4 weeks 😊
I just finished my second batch of banana wine. It tastes just like Guinness or barley wine! At .986 sp. gr., it's about 10 percent ABV! Outta sight! Can't wait to see what my next one is like!
Is there a delay in posting? Video said its March 25. Understand if there is. Got a hydrometer on order thanks to your advice so thanks for always mentioning it.
Yes, we have a ton of videos to publish!
For me banana wine is way up there with the whites. You could add a bit of tea in it during the ferment. It usually clarifies to a crystal clear white.
Ah. So much waiting. I guess you need batches running all the time. I love bananas and in on the edge of my seat in this one
Love you guys! Have you thought about doing another star fruit wine or perhaps a mango wine. I want to make one since I have some trees in my back yard
We got rid of the star fruit tree... and... mango... erm... not a fan!
When you back sweeten does it start to ferment again with the introduction of new sugar? And if so, does it get dry again?
Yeast beasties love bananas. I would also suggest to make one batch with honey and one with sugar then compare the color of the finished wine :).
"Oh look! A hairless ape!"
Howard the Duck
Theory craft: making the banana wine as you have. But use brown sugar only. After racking and whatnot add a half ounce or a full ounce of rum soaked oak "shaving" (you using it in a couple of videos ago that someone gave you guys)
For a hint of that rum flavor and after it ages a bit. I think the flavor profile would be more akin to Bannanas Foster.
This is a really good idea....
So with you on the brews all over the house lol. Sure has made this darn pandemic easier
I was expecting Derica to say "because yeast can't read!". If you were doing this again in 2022, would you step feed and pasteurize at 12%?
We haven’t really thought about it. If we revisit it we might have to take that into consideration.
I had forgotten about the banana wine. Have you considered or have you done a watermelon mead?
Do you clean/re use the brew bag? If so, how do you do it? Leave in the sanitiser? Wash in washing machine?
Absolutely. We wash it with soap and water and soak in sanitizer.
@@CitySteadingBrews Thanks guys! I just started a banana mead after watching yours and was interested whether I could clean the brewing sock or not, your answer is very helpful!
Of course! They are reusable.
I wouldn't complain about being stuck in a house full of beautiful wines and meads 😂
Not complaining at all.
You could potentially do batches of sugar in the food processor and store it for later as "CS Superfine Brewing Sugar"
Or just stir for an extra minute, lol.
I really should get to making some of this
i like the shirt you are waring saying "brey like a viking not like a chemist"... i am a chemist wanting to brew some wine...
Due to quarantine i can't get brewing yeast
Cant i try this with baking yeast
What alcohol percentage can i expect
Yes you can, and bread yeasts vary. Fleischmann's seems to be pretty consistent at about 12%.
Order through Amazon my friend. It took 3 days for me
Have you ever tried to plant the seed from your must...bananas have seed in the center of the fruit...was just wondering if you have ever tried to get the seed to begin to grow or does the heating kill them?
Pretty sure the heat kills them.
Get co2 tire inflator and you can purge the air from the vessel using tire valves
Hmm?
How did this one turn out?
What made you decide to use brown/white sugar instead of honey for this brew? Had you decided to use honey, would you have used the same amount of honey in pounds as you used sugar?
Just a flavor choice. No, you use about 25% more honey.
Great video! Didn't you guy start brewing a maple mead? How is it going?
Acerglyn, yep, still going.
So I want to start this wine this weekend. Can I add the extra sugar at the beginning?
Yes. Just be careful of adding too much or you could stall the ferment.
Can you add the bananas in the bag from the wine to a mash I’m making for banana brandy?
No idea. We don't distill but I don't see why not.
I think because I opened mine it went bad, I dumped it today. Next time I won't open lid after giving it a shake.
I doubt it went bad... never dump unless you are absolutely sure it’s bad. Opening the lid will not make it go bad.
Hi guys, was there a part 3 to this tutorial?
Good day, can i ask what is the antimicrobial agents present in a banana wine?
Honestly I couldn't tell you....
I mean, there's ethanol for one. Are you looking out for something in particular?
My abv after primary fermentation went from 1 to 1.3 (from 1.5 ltrs & 3/4 brown sugar). 😬😬😬 I’m a newbie and I hope it ferments further and is going to be ok!
I suggest a couple of our videos.... I think you might be reading things a little incorrectly:
ua-cam.com/video/pN368g-reE8/v-deo.html&ab_channel=CitySteadingBrews
ua-cam.com/video/NpBZctKaPis/v-deo.html&ab_channel=CitySteadingBrews
Try using baker's ultrafine sugar, it'll dissolve REALLY fast
Do a video of your collection of brews so far. Maybe one for the bottles and another video on current brews(an every bottle has a story kinda way). I think this may spike someone interest in a new flavor.
We do tastings every Tuesday. We've made about 80 brews in videos so, doing a video on all at once might be a little long! lol
@@CitySteadingBrews I think I hear a series in the future.
We already do tastings of everything. I guess I don’t understand what you’re after. :)
Is great that you show us the how to videos, but how bout some end reviews videos with the results??
It’s not done yet! We do show those too. Check our library, well over 150 videos.
How do you know it's done? If it went all the way down to .990, couldn't fermentation start up again? Would you sweeten it again if it Does ferment?
We use hydrometer readings. Could it? Yes. Will I sweeten it again? Yes.
Hello! I used your recipe for this exact wine, only i used different yeast, also 14%max though. One of my bottles (only one that i tasted, still in fermentation) is extremely sour, have i made a vinegar? Theres no other signs of the wine going bad and when i added a lot of sugar it didnt taste bad. But would sweetened banana vinegar taste bad with enough sugar? Is there a way to possibly tell if its gone bad? Is there a possibility for fruit wines to taste super tart when dry? At this point my fermentation has slowed down a lot, its about two weeks since i started fermentation. Thank you im advance!:)
If you made vinegar you would know it. :). Dry wines taste sour-ish.
When you day one of your bottles still in fermentation... did you bottle early or what do you mean?
@@CitySteadingBrews No, I just misscalculated the volume of bananas and sugar and my must didnt fit into my fermentation jar so I ended up having to split it and I only had a big bottle on me at that time so i used that + fermentation cap, haha. But alright I suppose leaving it for now and aging it for a bit doesnt cost me anything even if it was vinegar. Thank you!
Any update on this one, been a couple months
Updates are posted as they are ready.
have you guys ever considered using mango for something like a mead or wine? would that be possible? because if it is i might go crazy for that
I got mango'd out several years ago, but we're considering trying it again.
@@CitySteadingBrews did the mango flavor come through strong like a nectar or was it more of a subtle taste? ive been making the simple cyser for a little over a year now and every single time it's fantastic, so thank you for that video as well and i hope you do give mango another shot you're both awesome.
I just went blueberry picking 7lbs and purchased 1/2gal of honey from the farm in Inverness, fl how much water/ honey/ blueberries should I use I have a 5gal fermenter
10-15 lbs honey and 15 lbs fruit is a good start.
I tasted my brew after taking out the bananas, it tastes very sour and dry. Is it normal?? Or it has gone bad?
If you used a different yeast, it may have gone dry.
So i might have added to much banana to my banana mead i used like 4.5 lbs of extremely ripe bananas 3lbs Argentina wild flower honey and was only able to put a cup of water in my 1gal fermenter due to not any more room after a week i managed to get the bananas out squeezed and the juice was added back i added another 3 cups of water to top off with another half pound of honey, now the question was i wrong for over filling my fermenter with bananas or is this a too each there own kinda thing?
You weren't wrong... it's probably fine, but you didn't need more honey. Have you taken a gravity reading at all?
@@CitySteadingBrews not when i first did it not going to lie i should have but it was. More mush and i didn't think it would be a good/ accurate reading but when i added more honey and water (2 weeks after start, when i noticed that the liquid was separated) it was at 1.100 and that was about 3-4 weeks ago i need to start recording my brews better for better and more accurate information
And i will post pics of it on the fb group after its done my only problem is idk what the final abv is but as long as it tastes good i dont really care 😆
Is there a part 3 that I missed?
This was a little crazy....
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I've meant to mention that the sweetness of beet sugar and that of cane sugar has always seemed to make a noticeable difference in fermentation. What are your thoughts?
The sweetness of those two is really the same. Not sure there would be much difference really.
How do you clean the fruit bag ?
I just turn the bag inside out, dump it in the compost. Rinse with the garden hose then hand wash in the sink in hot water
That.
Have you ever brewed a coffee beer/stout? Thing about experimenting with it
Yup. Several times.
phew! so far mine is on par with this. It has this smell of moonshine. it has a very watery slight banana taste. It is a giant waiting game now.
I don't understand; why didn't fermentation start back up? The yeast is still young (only 3 weeks in primary fermentation)
If there’s no more sugar it has nothing to ferment.
@@CitySteadingBrews no I mean when you added the extra sugar to backsweeten it, why wouldn't fermentation just restart?
It’s an old video, but if I remember correctly it went past the yeast tolerance?
@@CitySteadingBrews ah ok, thanks for the reply :)
By the degasing stage I never get all the gas/bubbles out, is that normal?
Yeah, normally I let thin sit so they degas naturally
Ok I removed the bag of goop(bananas) today after 3 weeks and a few swirls but didn’t remove the lid until today and the og was 1.100 and my midway through gravity was almost the same as yours at .992 and wow at the alcohol smell but when I taste tested it all I got was alcohol and couldn’t taste any banana flavor at all??? So I backsweetened it and I’m going to let it sit and see what happens 😊😊😊
I think your OG was higher than 1.010...
Yes it was 1.100 and I apologize for mistyping it and I edited my comment to correct it and once again I apologize for that
@@CitySteadingBrews so do you think it will eventually become a good tasting wine?
There is no way for me to know. There are so many factors at play here including personal bias that I couldn't possibly tell you if this will be good or not. If you think it needs it, you could backsweeten, but then you have to pasteurize it too or risk more fermentation. There are so many ways to backsweeten, to include sugar, honey, fruit, etc.... I'm sorry this might not be the most helpful reply, but I won't lie to you, I'd rather you understand than just have me say, "Yeah, it'll be great.". Sometimes you have to make alterations to suit your tastes or the differences from one brew to another.
@@CitySteadingBrews ok ty for the honest answer and yes I did backsweeten it and it has begun to bloop bloop again 😂 so I’m doing this brew exactly as your video says too and so far every result is the same or close to it so I’m gonna let it sit as Mrs. Derica would say and we will go from there and I will get back to you in a month….thanks so much for responding to my question 😊
There’s a mixer people are really fond of here. It’s called Pisang Ambon and it’s a clear, luridly green and very sweet drink. Most people mix it with orange juice. I’m thinking that once this is done, this will be WAY better and no need to mix it with anything... unless you want to. Added plus: that weird green colour won’t be there. Food coloring isn’t my thing anyways. Unless it’s natural. I highly doubt the company making that mixer use nantural colorants.
can you dissolve the sugar in warm water maybe
Adding more liquid would dilute the wine though.
Banana wine part 3?
Coming.
How about...now? Do it for Andy Candy!!
So, what are the chances of this turning to banana vinegar?
Slim to none.
@@CitySteadingBrews why do you say that, the alcohol volume or the nature of bananas? I've never had it happen to my brews, but I've heard vinegarization is a problem to keep in mind.
Due to good methods and a clean environment. And, only like two of my brews turning to vinegar. Only a problem if you do things wrong.
"may the schwartz be with you" lol
Wait you don't drink more than a gallon of wine a week
Nope. Do you?
@@CitySteadingBrews well not now
Banana wine..... the whole thing just scares me lol
Why? It's awesome.
@@CitySteadingBrews Banana fermentation... spooky. I love bananas but banana flavoured/banana added stuff.... Iiiiiiiiii dunno. Don't get me wrong, I'd try it, but it scares me!
It's begging for food poisoning to me 😂🤣🤣😂
I have banana 🍌 wine 🍷 going, actually my first "so so to now amazing banana 🍌 odor , I didn't add brown sugar and so far my apv is 15% just went into a secondary vessel., have bananas coming again today will make another 3 gallons. Last year my friends loved the banana 🍌 Alto it was drier than I like it.
Ferment process change taste and flavour of anything .. !
Yeah?
By adding more sugar to this are you betting the yeast had reached its tolerance? Seems likely as it was at 15 percent!
Yes!
mabey a banan cider och banana sparkeling wine some time i futers
I'll take some ;)
Hey have you guys bottled, checked, or tasted this again? Would like to know what is going on! :)
Coming soon.
I followed this process but then back sweetened it with a pint and half of honey.
Ours is still in conditioning.
@@CitySteadingBrews I started mine arround a week after seeing your first vid it was arround the same readings as yours I then added the honey dont know how to work out the gravity for back sweetening but I have a sweet tooth so all is good it's at 1.050 grav now and still bubbling slowly off gassing I presume or slight re fermentation? No expert very new to all this
Why don’t you worry about ocidization when it’s gassy? 5:55
Co2 is geavier than oxygen making oxidizing less likely.
Probably a stupid question - how much is a gallon, 3.7 litres or 4.5 l? I think my maths has been wrong for a while…
A US gallon is 3.785 liters.
No need to post the same question on different videos. We see all the posts.
Did something happen to the guy who always gets on your site to give you the one thumbs down! 😱😉
It's Saturday, he's probably busy with other sites to thumbs down.
Love the Monkey Comment LOL we are the Smart Ones but we still don't know how to open bananas as good as they do
Oh banana what have done to you? So cute!
isn't the imitation banana imitating the previous sort of banana we used to cultivate? it mostly got dead cause all of the trees were clones so when a disease hit it it just got wiped.
Yes. But most oeople don’t know that so it’s easier to say imitation banana!
The artificial banana flavor is based off an extinct species of banana, known as the Gros Michels, which was the main banana crop up until the 1950's when there was a plague that effectively killed that variety, the banana that we know today was resistant to the fungal plague
Gros Michel bananas are not extinct, it's just that because of the blight it makes no sense to try to grow them commercially. There are 2 or 3 orchards in Florida that still grow them and they are quite common in Southeast Asia.
I actually just bought one and it's growing in my yard here in Florida right now
@@RVukovi I know you probably won’t reply but what’s the fruit like!l?
First comment.. just tried my first home made mead... not for me.. but I’m sure I did something wrong
It should taste like wine, but... honestly there's so much variation you can certainly find one you like.
How long did you let it age? I found I didn’t like my mead at first in the beginning. After letting it age for a few months it tasted really good, having a lightly sweet floral notes to it.
My first home made mead was truly horrible. Keep trying! Many years and brews later, I'm about to rack a hibiscus mead and a butterfly pea flower (with lemon) mead, two of many varieties I make. The rewards are well worth the effort.
Barry Drake if you’ve used butterfly pea flower, does it change colour when you add an acid like lemon juice? Several gins use butterfly pea as a ph indicator...
I know y'all like to experiment. How about instant mashed potato flakes?
How do you mean?
@@CitySteadingBrews I know potatoes are used in vodkas. Wondering how instant mash potato flakes would do.
In case you were wondering about imitation banana flavoring. back in the 1950s that was what actual bananas taste like. they copied it chemically so it tasted exactly the same. at the time we only grew 1 cultivar of bananas. unfortunately a disease killed all of that cultivar causing it to go extinct. so the bananas of today are a different cultivar which is why they taste different than the imitation banana flavoring
Yup. We originally had that recorded in the video but it ran too long so that was cut out.
I think leaving the big bag in there affected the taste. Also the fact you mixed raw skin on bananas and frozen ones together which may have given it diffeeent flavour consistency. I am Indian so I Know my Alcohol.
Otherwise, fermenting with real fruits is the best way to make wine and cider beers. Super good taste and buzzy high feeling 🍺🥃🍷
Not sure what you're trying to say. This is how banana wines come out. I'm a longtime brewer with tons of experience, so I know my alcohol, lol.
@@CitySteadingBrews you were complaining about the taste
It’s young.
@@CitySteadingBrews yup. The extra Brown sugar infused will bringbout better taste as it ages
Imitation banana flavor is based off of an extinct breed of bananas from back when there were more types of bananas
Gros michel, they still exist just not really commercially available
Other people like eating banana's. I drink them.
skip the food processor, use a whisk.
Monkeys aren't "banana experts". Monkeys in the wild almost never come across bananas to eat, because the edible banana is a cultivated, domesticated plant. Monkeys *in captivity* are given bananas as a sweet treat, but that doesn't make them any more banana experts than humans.
Ummm... bananas totally grow wild. I just looked it up.
Also... this was about making banana wine... that’s what you took away from the video?
Have you ever thought about doing giveaways with your excess. Not 100% sure about all the legalities but i know the channel man made mead gives away 1 bottle of each new brew when he makes a video
It's totally illegal to ship alcohol in any way.
@@CitySteadingBrews not sure how he does it but man made mead does giveaways was just a thought if it cant be done legally i understand definitely would want you guy to break the law
@@TheIfrit23 You have to be a licensed winery in order to sell it, and you have to work through someone who is already licensed to do so to ship anything. (I checked, because I wanted to give mine away to distant friends.)
If he ships it, it’s against the law. He may not realize it. Plus, no way to verify if a person is underage or not. Risky!
@@CitySteadingBrews good points like i said im not sure how he does it
For someone that is doing it as a hobby, that only cares about flavor. Is taking gravity reading to know the abv important?
Gravity readings can tell you when it’s safe to bottle too. That’s far more important than abv.
If you do a brew a week, drink a brew a week to prevent clutter, LOL
We are now backlogged with racking and bottlings, so...
the modern banana is a man made thing so we were eating the modern banana before they were
Ehh, bananas have been growing for thousands of years. We cultivated them yes, but they were still bananas.