Fruit Beers

[peterw20]

Hi all,

has anyone tried brewing fruit beer's?

for some reason i've had a thought of making a banana/wheat beer! and even a stout with banana haha, you's can all point at me and laugh now if you like [biggrin]

any thought's on how much or when to put banana puree in wort?

cheers Peter.

[TonyW]

Plenty of beer recipes using banana although i have never done one i think the germans call it banana weizen. I use alot of different fruits in my ciders fructose being fermentable. I was told i couldnt make a cranberry cider but the one i just bottled has come up a treat, so all you gotta do is have a go.

 

I think i would try it with a wheat beer the same as eventually i am going to try a wheat beer with strawberries.

[Guest]

To do a banana beer properly is time consuming and personally I wouldn't bother (How To Make Banana Beer). However, if you are wanting a banana flavoured beer then I would do a wheat beer and ferment it with Wyeast Weihenstephan Yeast (3068) and ferment it around 25C-28C. If you can't get that yeast then try SafbrewWB 06 which may do as a substitute.

 

[NewtownClown]

+1 for both the yeasts Bill mentions, at the higher temps.

 

I have made both an Ale and a Stout using bananas , I was very disappointed with the stout - the banana was lost in the caramel, coffee, chocolate and the aroma was very, very faint.

Next time I plan to use essence for the stout.

 

The Ale (All Grain) was fantastic.

 

So go ahead, but don't waste $12/Kg in a wheat beer when the aroma and flavour is all about the yeast, as Bill points out

[weggl]

Tony, is that a plastic glass? If it is dont tell Muddy.[pinched]

[Muddy Waters]

I believe it is a DIY fermentor Warren. I'm sure Tony has enough class to drink fro glass though [biggrin]

[TonyW]

Sprung yes thats a big plastic glass DIY fermenter as i needed something to get me back to brewing beer and it was on special last week for $74

I has a vast array of Glass to drink from and all as clean as clean can be [biggrin]and heres a few of the couple of 100 beer glass's i do have, left my coopers ones out of the vid, and have just scored a 1 litre bewty with my Paulader Oktoberfest Litre can that i havent cracked yet but its looking at me saying drink me drink me [love]

 

http://youtu.be/SMANXPI-nF0

[Muddy Waters]

Warren drinks from plastic throw away glasses Tony...but we still like him [biggrin]

[TonyW]

They be the ones you pour the beer in then throw it away?

[Muddy Waters]

Like you'd get at the cricket...beer should never be conumed from plastic. Stored in plastic is fine but when you drink from plastic it smells different which diminishes the taste...[rightful] [rightful] [rightful]

[peterw20]

thanks fella's,

problem i got here is lack of brewing ingredients, got basic coopers and homebrand gear here, but unless i get online and order and list is $100-00 or more it's not worth it,

i put down another Coopers stout+BE2+1.5KG banana's(inc skins)+1 tin cond milk,

i'm pretty impressed with the milk stout from last month has been barely 10 days since bottling and taste's nice[biggrin]

will be in Darwin next month so will stock up on different yeast's and gear and plan my next brews so i'm not short of ingredients.