Just put on a gallon of my banana wine from lidl banana nectar juice and i may have created some fall down stuff this time. Its basically 4 litres of Lidl banana nectar juice plus 1kg table sugar and i use a wine yeast. Last time it came out like a banana liquer, bloody lovely but sweet and strong.
FYI because its basically pulped banana juice you will loose AT LEAST 30-40% of volume between primary and bottling due to settling of suspended solids.
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This one requires a lot of patience and numerous different decanting days. ::)
Expect it to be at least 2 months before you can start supping this ???
Also if you do this place your demijohn in a bucket as it WILL blow out and keep blowing out for a while. Also you will only get 25% yield maximum on this so don't expect much :D
Yeah, it's banana pulp, so you'll lose a lot of it to semi-solids.
Quote from: LordEoin on October 06, 2013, 08:59:41 PM
Yeah, it's banana pulp, so you'll lose a lot of it to semi-solids.
Maximum and i do mean maximum 25% volume yield of finished product on this but i tell ya what, in my opinion it is so worth it,in a twist off bottle it will keep for ages in the fridge, on the rocks it is smashing ;D
sounds tasty Greg I might try this, what sort of abv are you getting?
Sounds good, Greg - but would you consider fermenting it for a few days in a bucket, and then straining off the puree into a demijohn? It might be less wasteful and, dare I say it, even more vertically challenging?
Quote from: Damofto on October 06, 2013, 09:15:49 PM
sounds tasty Greg I might try this, what sort of abv are you getting?
If i remember rightly the last batch was 16% abv or 18% maybe, made no notes on that one.
Quote from: Col on October 07, 2013, 12:45:29 AM
Sounds good, Greg - but would you consider fermenting it for a few days in a bucket, and then straining off the puree into a demijohn? It might be less wasteful and, dare I say it, even more vertically challenging?
Actually Col now that you mention it i think i did that the last time. I may do that tomorrow when i get home.
16-18% what yeast did you use? Must have been a champagne variety.
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Quote from: Eoin on October 07, 2013, 08:43:32 AM
16-18% what yeast did you use? Must have been a champagne variety.
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Last time it was lavin ec-1118, this time I used sn-9 wine yeast from vintners harvest.
Is the banana pulp standard in Lidl?
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Quote from: Eoin on October 07, 2013, 10:16:08 AM
Is the banana pulp standard in Lidl?
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No it is very hit and miss so i will be making a bigger buy this week if there is any left.