When Life Gives You Bananas…

[FlamingoEmporium]

Scored a bunch of bananas after hurricane Milton. One bunch from one of my trees that fell and another large bunch put out by the road and a few other stray bananas from other sources.

Added about a pound of mango from this year and some Welches white.

Yeast getting pitched before bed tonight.

Some were fresh some were frozen for a few days. This is about half of what went in. Happy to hear any tips. My first batch of banana

 

[BigDaveK]

My last banana wine used 12 lbs VERY ripe bananas, frozen for a couple days, for a one gallon batch. Crazy intense banana flavor.
When you back sweeten consider using a little brown sugar, not too much. I think I did 25% brown sugar.
Good luck!

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

When you back sweeten consider using a little brown sugar, not too much. I think I did 25% brown sugar.

Will do. Did you have to adjust ph at all ?

 

[BigDaveK]

Will do. Did you have to adjust ph at all ?

I assume you mean at the beginning rather than at bottling. In that case, oh yeah! Keep in mind bananas can be used to raise the pH of a must that's too acidic. My starting pH was 4.6. With a volume a little over 1.5 gal. I used 8 tsp of acid blend and got the pH to 3.3, a little low, but at bottling it had climbed up to 3.5.