In home brewing rationally use products, which we get for free or at the lowest price. Most often it is apples, potato, beet, crops. But in the vastness of our homeland is sold (and sometimes grows) such an exotic fruit, like a banana, which is imported to us from friendly continents with absolutely low cost. Why not try making moonshine from bananas, once you can get them almost for free? After all, experimenting with different ingredients is one of the joys of home distilling.
What a fruit?
In the banana republics, where the incomes of the majority of the population tend to zero, bananas are used almost everywhere. They prepare ordinary food and desserts, from a trunk of a tree make mats, furniture, clothing. AND, Of course, sugary fruits ferment and make alcoholic beverages - wine and ersatz beer. So this gift of nature is quite applicable for home brewing.
Interesting banana tree "is a giant herb, and the fruits themselves are berries. So banana moonshine is berry alcohol.
Overripe banana fruit
In ripe fruit (pulp) contained in 25% sugars, and they are all simple - sucrose, fructose, glucose. And this is a great food for yeast crops, which produce ethyl alcohol. In grapes - the main wine and distillery - the sugar content is often much lower.
However, do not rely too much on data, provided by dietary organizations, studying the "perfect" fruits and berries. The lion's share of bananas, coming to our country, come here immature. So the sugar in them is close 12%-17%. But it is also very good and quite suitable for alcohol production.
Table of sugars in fruits and berries
Information: According to the Institute of Nutrition "RF banana - a tropical fruit and it contains 2% starch and 21% carbohydrates, that is, sugars.
The process of making braga
The main problem with bananas is the high fiber content of the flesh. That is, they are almost impossible
Braga from bananas
ferment without water, and after fermentation - to separate the pulp from the resulting puree. Similar difficulties exist with pears, pumpkin. Therefore, in general, the instructions will look like this:
- peel bananas;
- crush to obtain a puree;
- add water in quantity 1:1;
- add sugar, that its percentage reached 20% in the wort;
- make yeast and ferment.
Advice: it is better to take soft ones to make banana brew, darkened fruit. Here it is necessary to distinguish blackening because of that, that the fruit is frozen from darkening due to overripeness. In the latter case, our berries will smell slightly of mash.
Before distillation, you should try to separate the solid part - the pulp - from the liquid. But if that doesn't work, then the cube must have a thick bottom, so that the mash masses do not burn and do not give in the final product an excess of methanol.
Recipe
- This is a simple recipe for banana alcohol gives 100% good result. It turns out the original drink with the main smell and taste of moonshine and light banana notes. We will need:
- unpeeled overripe bananas - 5 kg;
- water prepared - 45 liters;
- sugar - 4 kg;
- yeast - 500 city. pressed.
- Peel bananas and mash them into a puree.
- Add warm (+25° C– + 30 ° С) water.
- Yeast is diluted with warm (+30°C) water and a teaspoon of sugar, achieve foaming and add to the wort. You can make a "starter" in advance: to the same recipe add 1 mash the banana and leave to roam for a day, then pour into the wort.
Moonshine from bananas
- You can add yeast fertilizer - we need it, to ferment as quickly as possible, after all, our wort may already contain lactic acid bacteria.
- Put the brew in a container, which will be filled in 2/3 - quite rapid foaming is expected.
- Shake or stir the mash at least 2 times a day, as a "cap" of banana puree will form at the top.
- After fermentation (determine the taste: brew should be bitter, without the taste of sugar) we give raw materials to defend 12 hours.
- Filter, send for fractional distillation. It is not recommended to distill a second time - the banana aroma and taste disappears.
Advice: and during fermentation, and in the distillation of a large amount of foam will be formed. This should be taken into account when choosing containers. If necessary, use purchased defoamers, refined oil or crushed cookies.
To make moonshine from bananas, you can use this recipe as a basis, which can be slightly modified during the experiments.
Bananas forever!
"Banana", as the people call this drink, after carbon filtration and settling is quite good. Add a little vanilla to taste, a little orange peel and you can please your friends with exotic homemade alcohol, prepared "secret recipes of Malaysian tribes".