banana beer

[Beerbuddha]

Has anyone any advice on adding banana into secondary.

I have peeled,chopped,rinsed with star san and frozen 3 kgs banana and beer is now ready for secondary.

Thing is that is allot mass.... so if i blend it with vodka to help steralize im still not sure if all bugs will be dead so can i boil the mixture for few minutes before cooling and adding to secondary any taughts ? Not sure if it will affect banana good or bad.

[Pheeel]

If you use wheat beer yeast you could get all the bananas you want from it

AFAIK the reco is to freeze and boil fruit but that's normally for raspberries etc. I guess a quick boil wouldn't hurt

[Beerbuddha]

I wanted to try the non yeast route but i do love banana tasting weiss beer over clove.

Banana is suppose to give good body to the beer also its just experimentation as much as anything else.

i'm guessing putting 3kgs in fast fermenter will be a bad idea also.

[molc]

With fruit, generally boiling will blast off all the aromatics and interesting flavours. Also you could probably get away with just bringing it to pasturisation temperature, though personally, I'd just chuck it in and see what happens

[Beerbuddha]

If it aint broke dont fix it i guess. I shall bung it in and if there is an issue boil next time. The freezing and alcohol in beer should help kill things

[Beerbuddha]

3kgs starsan washed banana after week in freezer.

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[Beerbuddha]

Clean blender with pbw and then boil water to sterilize

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[Beerbuddha]

Add vanilla pods and vodka and hope the frozen bananas don't destroy wife's blender

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[Beerbuddha]

Adds more vodka and blender sounded like blending bricks

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[Beerbuddha]

I now know how to make banana ice-cream.

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[Beerbuddha]

Gonna take time needs to melt it ain't going into any fermentation carboy like this

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[Beerbuddha]

So it flowed nicely after I heated it up to fermentation temp. Might have saved time doing this first.

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[Beerbuddha]

Purged oxygen out

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[Beerbuddha]

Transferred beer from primary

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[Beerbuddha]

Job done

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