Bananas for body? Questions and comments invited....

[Boozehag]

I cant stand bananas either. The smell and texture makes me feel quite ill so wouldnt use them anyway. I have visions of them gonig disgusting too but thats my imagination at work anyay!

I use golden sultanas (Raisins) in a lot of my wines but in saying that, my apple wine that I have just bottled seems to lack in body and I used them in that. It tasted divine otherwise which for a new wine Im pleased as it should be really nice when its matured.

This glycerol, where would you buy it from?

 

[Wade E]

how many lbs of sultanas did you use per gallon?

 

[smurfe]

Thanks for thatTom.

Steve? out of interest, the wines you said you could taste the banana in.. were they grape kits or fruit wines?

Allie

It was this Steve. I used bananas in a couple Wine Expert Vintners Reserve red kits and could taste it in both of them. A Cab and a Burgundy.

 

[cpfan]

It was this Steve.

Sorry Smurfe, didn't know that Steve was your name.

Steve/cpfan

 

[Winot]

I added bananas to my Plum wine. An experiment, as they weren't in the recipe. I added 3 whole bananas with 10 lbs of black plums to make a 3 gallon batch. It seems most people here boil the bananas and add the water, whereas I simply blended the bananas together with the plums in a blender and then fermented them all !

I think they went OK, the fermentation went well, no strange floating mashed banana clumps, as I guess they were well and truly blended with much greater quantities of plum.

After about 3 months, I can't taste any hint of banana in the wine at all.

 

[BettyJ]

Bananas are locally produced and inexpensive for me (verses raisons). I have been using bananas on all of my fruit wines - I rinse them in K Meta, slice with skins on (1/2 of the bananas) and freeze them. I understand that the skins add tannin. Banana residue will leak through the bag, but I have observed that they will all get dissolved as the wine is clearing. I have also added them to SunCal grape juice concentrates (reds) and can't really tell any difference....

I am planning to do a banana wine in the very near future and will add a SunCal white concentrate (riesling maybe) to the mix.

I don't see any reason here NOT to use them