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Learn how to make banana wine with this simple and inexpensive recipe. You will need bananas, sugar, water, yeast and some basic equipment.
BANANA WINE (2) [Heavy Bodied] 3-1/2 lb. bananas 1 lb. chopped golden raisins 2 lb. granulated sugar 1-1/4 tsp. acid blend 1 tsp. pectic enzyme 1/4 tsp. grape tannin 1 gallon water wine yeast and nutrient Slice bananas into thin discs, leaving skins on fruit. Put into grain-bag, tie top, and place in 6 pints water.
Made my first banana wine and I used the peels as well. We brought everything to a boil, dropped in the mashed Banana and simmered about 30 minutes. This was a poor mans style, no reading taken but we used about 2 1/4 lbs of white granulated sugar and fermented with Fleischmann's bread yeast.
A couple of days before you plan on brewing: Make your starter. Mix water and table sugar to gravity of 1.020 to a volume of 1 gallon.
Welches makes several 100% fruit juice frozen concentrates. They have a white grape and peach that would go nicely with your wine. Not sure if they have a strawberry one. Fyi. 4 cans of welches frozen juice per gal of wine makes a very nicly flavored wine with no added suger. Fewer cans per gal needs suger to bring up the sg.
Secondly, we want the wine to have cleared, with the yeast sedimented to the bottom. If the wine is still hazy the yeast may be in suspension still so trying to stabilise the wine at this point would not work effectively. To stabilise a wine you’ll need an additive called potassium sorbate as well as sodium metabisulphite (Campden Tablets).
I have made banana wine only once and I used about 4 lbs to the gallon. I think the more fruit you use the richer the banana flavor will be so 6 lbs should be OK. I chose not to use skins as I have seen many comments disparaging banana wine because of its overpowering banana flavor when the skins were added.
I just made an apple-banana wine with some extra ingredients. 4 gallons made with 6 lbs of peeled bananas, 2 lbs. of fuji apple cores, 2 whole lemons, a pound of regular grapes, 3 lbs of dehydrated cane syrup (raw sugar) and a couple pounds of corn-off-the-cobb that was just chillin in the freezer. Everything but the corn was organic.
Fruit Wine recipes form the majority of the wine making that I do but also we have looked at wine making kits from grape juice and making wines from fruit juices like grape juice. This list serves as a place to keep all the wine recipes we have made and shared here on Home Brew Answers as well as covering the basics of wine making and putting ...
Do some research into that method, I think Yooper made the Banana wine thread. c) Another option to consider would be to use a "Hefeweizen" beer yeast. Hefeweizen is a style of wheat beer that is known for having banana esters and clove phenols, so that might be either a replacement of or a complement to the banana in your recipe.