Hi Cindy,

banana ferments like greased lightning, because of all the goodies present
in the "juice". Yeast just loves banana. Other country wines, especially
apple and a few flower wines, love banana too. It highly improves tast and
mouth-feeling and gives your wine a "bite". You will not tast banana
however, unless you cook the peel too. In fact, banana ferments so d....
quickly and producing so much foam, that you must be very careful not to
fill your carboy too much, for else (it happened to me, the first time) the
floor and sometimes even the ceiling will bear the marks of
bananafermentation (aaahhhhh my wife.........)
Ed

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no leaves on the trees,
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> Hi all!
>
> You seem to be having so much fun that I decided to join in! So about
> 8 weeks ago I started making wine. I've got 5 batches (in gallon jugs)
> in different stages of fermentation in my kitchen .
>
> So far, I've been sticking to the recipes on Jack Keller's web site.
>
> I have a question about my latest attempt. I made a spiced banana
> wine, the recipe is here, second from the top:
> http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/recipe2.asp.
>
> I increased the recipe 1 1/2 so I'd have something for topping up
> during racking. The increase also used up the whole can of white
> grape concentrate. I used the Lalvin EC 1118 yeast.
>
> My starting SG on April 3 was 1.097. I stirred daily for 5 days, just
> as the recipe said. Tonight, April 7, I strained out the chunkies and
> racked to the secondary -- one gallon jug and a 1.5 liter jug. I
> measured the SG and it was 0.998.
>
> Is it okay that the fermentation went so quickly? I added another 1/4
> sugar (divided between the two jugs) so that the yeast doesn't stop
> working yet. I didn't think that would hurt. I didn't measure the SG
> again, but I'm estimating that I raised it to around 1.006 or so.
>
> Before I started this batch, I googled this group for info on banana
> wine. You who said this smells like vomit are right! But I haven't
> thrown it out yet. I doubt I taste it for a year or so though.
>
>
>
> TIA!
>
> Cindie
>