StillSmart

Merry Xmas, all!

I still consider myself an erratic beginner. This means any faults I have are quickly explained away....

An example in point refers to my most recent ferm'ing. I considered that my latest batch of banana wine was way too sweet - it really does peel the enamel off your teeth. So I decided to distill it.

Lo and behold! I'm getting twice as much neat alcohol off the banana wine than I do from the packets of Alcotec48.

For once - and maybe only once - I'm going to rigorously write down my processes for both Alcotec48 and banana and see this is a repeatable event. If so, it's goodbye to Alcotec as I can get banana's at 10p per kilo as opposed to £3.50 for Alcotec.

This will then pave the way for using other foods as I have seen here. (Rice, potatoes, lentils, etc).

Catch you all in the New Year and a massive thanks to all the stalwarts here.

Did you add sugar to the bananas? Get confused and add it twice? Or did you use enzymes to convert their starch to sugar?

Voddy wrote:Merry Xmas, all!

I still consider myself an erratic beginner. This means any faults I have are quickly explained away....

An example in point refers to my most recent ferm'ing. I considered that my latest batch of banana wine was way too sweet - it really does peel the enamel off your teeth. So I decided to distill it.

Lo and behold! I'm getting twice as much neat alcohol off the banana wine than I do from the packets of Alcotec48.

For once - and maybe only once - I'm going to rigorously write down my processes for both Alcotec48 and banana and see this is a repeatable event. If so, it's goodbye to Alcotec as I can get banana's at 10p per kilo as opposed to £3.50 for Alcotec.

This will then pave the way for using other foods as I have seen here. (Rice, potatoes, lentils, etc).

Catch you all in the New Year and a massive thanks to all the stalwarts here.

And a Merry one to you also.
Writing it down is good,it sometimes helps me see what I am doing right!
And as I mostly make it up as I go along,is welcome.

Robert.

Merry Christmas.

Writing down is good, and I think another reason for the discrepancy will be along soon.

That'll be the sugar in the banana wine.........

Was it too sweet because a stuck ferment ? Or too much back sweetening ?

In any case, if you can make a cheap base ferment because of cheap ingredients, then WTF, go for it if you like the results........