How to Make Easy Banana Beer

Beer Kit
Easy tutorial on how to make banana beer.

You will need:
12 just ripe bananas
1 x Belgian Pale Ale beer kit
About 40 x 500ml plastic bottles
2 x 30L Fermentation Buckets with lids and bubble airlocks
Pectolase
Large plastic spoon/paddle
Steriliser
No rinse steriliser for the bottles
syphon hose
Straining bag

Step 1; Peel and cut 12 ripe bananas. Put into a saucepan and simmer for 30minutes with 1L water.

Step 2; Mash the bananas and put into a sterilised fermentation bucket. Follow instructions from beer making kit and add to bananas.

Step 3; Top up with cold bottled water to 23L mark. Add Pectolase and yeast and stir.

Step 4; place on lid with air lock. Leave for 5 days.

Step 5; After 5 days add yeast pellets if these came with your kit. Put lid back on and leave for another 2 days until the airlock stops bubbling.

Step 6; transfer all the liquid to another clean bucket but use the straining bag to prevent lumps and sediment being transferred.

Step 7; Leave for 2 days to clear. You can use finings at this point too.

Step 8; Transfer to a clean bucket leaving sediment behind. Add priming sugar and mix.

Step 9; Sterilise about 40 bottles and lids with no rinse cleaner.

Step10; Fill all the bottles and put on the lids. Leave for 2 weeks to clear and carbonate.

leave for about 3 months for a better tasting beer.

Somehow I deleted step 4 and the video went missing. My spelling is also terrible.

Any questions just ask in the comments box.

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