@@wouterja356 Ultimately, all units are somewhat arbitrary in origin, but the metric system is reasonably less arbitrary. For example, a meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000th of the distance from the Earth's equator to the poles.
Awesome to see you practicing your new language skills my friend. Glad I found Beaver and his channel and so glad you did as well. Hope all is well with you and yours. -- den
Noticing the 2 DIY airlocks in the background, I’d suggest having a longer pipe & the jar of water on the ground, below the level of whatever’s in the fermenter to avoid the possibility of the water siphoning into the fermenter. Sometimes after the fermentation has finished & there’s a change in air pressure because of weather changes (hot/cold), the fermenter can draw in air or water if your airlock is like this. 1:00
The "banana" flavor (and other "funky" flavors) in rum generally comes from esters that develop as a result of the natural fermentation process and the inclusion of the dunder left from the previous batch. Technically you're making some kind of cross between waragi and rum. Naming technicalities aside, I really wish I could try this, because it seems like an awesome recipe that should produce some really tasty spirits and it's a lot more practical than "traditional" rum production that takes several batches before the dunder matures and starts giving those funky notes that make Jamaican style rum so special.
Put a tablespoon of olive oil in the fermentor to break the surface tension and help ease up the crazy bubbling up explosions, works a treat and helps with a few added nutrients
Enjoying your videos my friend. Thank you for doing them for the distilling community, as we all learn from each other. I'm from NH on the East coast of America ( North ) . A long way from Bearded, but really just a keystroke away. Glad he made it over here and found you. He seems like a very cool and genuine guy. Best to you and yours. -- den
Hey B ,great video. This is very close to how I make mine. A slightly different process and dark brown sugar little more molasses and couple extra bananas and 1/3 backset on bakers yeast
@@pierreerasmus7005 bakers, or bread yeast works very well for me. It can be used to make any type of alcohol. It depends on your preferences. It does have its limits as far as alcohol tolerance but my washes are between 8% and 12% and experience good results. I hope this helps.
@@BEAVERDIY Looking forward to your next video. You have a decent looking set up there. I haven’t distilled any for over a year. I already have too much whisky stockpiled to want to make more of that but I am finding more and more people that like to drink it. It’s always interesting to try something new.
It doesn't really matter how much yeast you add because the yeast will multiply like crazy and will all die off when it's done. You just need to add at least enough to get it started, so a tablespoon is enough, but more won't hurt. It looks like he added a half a cup, which is a lot more than I normally add to 5 gallons of grapes.
I assume you will distill the fermented wash once it's done? Also, given that you've added bananas to it would I be right in saying that technically this is not rum but a rum-brandy mixture of some sort?
I did that receipe, all that fun peeling bananas, pulping them into goo, really cool, yet in rum itself i had no 🍌 flavor, maybe i did distilled it too high ABV, ???, Dont know. But i also think that mr.B has access to fruits from garden. I am based in Poland where tropical fruits are imported. Anyway final product was good , booz is booz 😄 made a great drink at wifey Bday party with it, .... Thanks 👍
great recipe, looking forward to the next part. Two questions: 1. Is there any danger due to boiling the molasses for 20 minutes, some of the fermentable sugars to be converted to unfermentable? 2. the molasses look very watery by the time you put it inside the pot with the sugar. Did you heat the molasses previously or maybe dissolve the molasses in hot water?
For a quickie, gently fry halved lengthwise ripe or overripe bananas in butter at low temp. When browned tip into a bowl and pour already made rum or brandy on top. Enjoy. Yum.
Looks great Boet! Hope both ferment out equally. What molasses did you use? Looks very thin. We always used the Molatek feed grade as they do not have any nasty's in. Enjoy your channel! And will be advocating subscribers everywhere I go! Have a lekke day!
The couple that makes mead, rum, moonshine, and whiskey is the couple that lasts. My husband got me into making mead and I got hin into making whiskey and moonshine.
Hi New Country Guy, Thanks for the comment always trying to improve on the videos any specific info you feel I need to add, thank you for the feedback looking forward to your reply so I can fix and ensure next video is better.
@@BEAVERDIY no problem. I wasn't sure how much yeast you added to the mixture. I want to try making this and want to be sure I have the amounts right when I do. Thank you for responding.
Trust the man when he says leave plenty of head room. If I hadn't woke up at 2am to answer a call of nature and by accident checked my fermenter it had the potential to explode, the airlock blocked with banana sludge. I ripped out the airlock and decorated my ceiling. Very sticky and messy cleanup.
I have just stumbled across this channel and this recipe interested me, As I always like to do a few experimental washes each year. A good video thank you very much. Have yourtried using the back set to make a dunder pit? I am not sure how the banana would affect the Dunder though.
Hi Paul, I have not yet played around with dunder, I did do a generation run on a rum but not the lac infected dunder pit yet. Planning on doing a series on rum and the deconstruction of rum to see what flavors you can develop with changes in the recipes.
Hi Adri, Will post a few photos on my page with the different infections, white bubble and star formation is normal and is standard LACTO, just as long as it is not furry, or growing hairs.
I bought my ScandoRomani husband a mead making set and now we are having the best time making tons of different mead. ....I'm addicted to, it's just so much fun.
@@gravelboycauty honestly it's a personal choice not to. I got myself into way too many hobbies and had to cut back so I could focus and really grow my skills in the ones that brought me the most joy. If I find I have free time from dropping some of my current hobbies I may come back to this and take a look later on.
After making mead for couple of months, this video makes me excited to make rum...is it possible I use just sugarcane juice instead of molasses for making a banana rum or any rums since I easily have stock of sugarcane juice from my supplier? Many thanks.
The idea of a balloon on the fermenter frightens me,imaging it will pop of and jetting round my house at night and me running down the stairwas emptying my weapons in the hallway... Waking up to a mess and police all over!
I am doing a stripping run on this as I write this note, all went well with my wash only taking 3 days ferment to dry (I live in warm climate), but then came the nightmare of trying to rack this brew, how do you go about separating the banana offal from the wash for the still? all strainers block up instantly the taps block and the siphon hoses blocked. I managed to get 17L in the end but what a lot of mess and straining, it really did put a dampener on the whole experience. I could smell the alcohol in the bananas going down the drain oh the humanity. I suspect maybe the bananas may not have been over ripe enough? I would be most grateful for any tips to make this part easier. Otherwise I am running this stuff and it smells amazing cant wait for the spirit run, can you suggest what wood to age this on, otherwise I'll use rum barrel chips...seems logical. Also I did your spiced rum and wow I am a fan. As a rum drinker this came out as one of the finest rums I've even drunk better loan made myself. Keep the great recipes coming Beaver love your work.
Hi Ken, Thank you for the comment, yes this was a nightmare to clear, lucky had some experience with Cake recently 😀, what I did was placed it in a filter bag, and let it drain overnight, you will be left with a really compacted offal, you can squeeze it to get the last bit of juice out but was minimal. It took about 10hours to filter. What I will do in future is to take my BIB bag and filter it that way.
Many years ago my wife worked for a grocery store and brought home a case of over ripe bananas for me to experiment with ferment into wine or brandy. First lesson learned was the foaming. Second was the fining. Repeated cold shocking got a lot of the fines to settle out. I then used a fineing solution and let it sit for a week. It was too cloudy to bottle as a wine so just ran it. Made a mess of the pot.
I appreciate the pure genius of a functioning alcoholic.
i’m trying this tomorrow.
Hahaha, Mega, Please let me know how it turns out.
How did it turn out? It's two months now
@@kush5749 RIP MegaTapdog...either dead or blind :/ #riskyhomebrew
@@goodgrow_io made me burst out laughing with this comment. Cheers!
Local is lekker. Glad I found your channel 👍
Mmm. Sounds delicious.
Came out real good
THE MOST EXPENSIVE LAXATIVE EVER!!!😊🦎🌺🌴💖 HA HA!! KIDDING MIGHT TRY MAKiNG 1 LITER TO START
“Freedom units”! I love it.
Especially because it makes people look extra dumb 😂
@@wouterja356 Ultimately, all units are somewhat arbitrary in origin, but the metric system is reasonably less arbitrary. For example, a meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000th of the distance from the Earth's equator to the poles.
@@RadomKidsareme000 thanks, didn't know that! :)
Now I'm hungry for dessert and thirsty for rum! Looks amazing broer!
Awesome to see you practicing your new language skills my friend. Glad I found Beaver and his channel and so glad you did as well. Hope all is well with you and yours. -- den
@@everydayden5826 Dankie broer!
Bundaberg distillery in Queensland Australia makes Chocolate Rum. It is so yummy.
Awesome videos. I do the brewing bit and my husband does the distilling. So you have two new fans.
Thank you bro for the idea
Thank You ... God Bless You and Family 👍
Perhaps you should write a book on how to process . Step by step. All the ingredients and tools to process a rum or whiskey or wine.
Noticing the 2 DIY airlocks in the background, I’d suggest having a longer pipe & the jar of water on the ground, below the level of whatever’s in the fermenter to avoid the possibility of the water siphoning into the fermenter. Sometimes after the fermentation has finished & there’s a change in air pressure because of weather changes (hot/cold), the fermenter can draw in air or water if your airlock is like this. 1:00
Bruh !!! South African?! Hell yeah buddy! Nice show!
The "banana" flavor (and other "funky" flavors) in rum generally comes from esters that develop as a result of the natural fermentation process and the inclusion of the dunder left from the previous batch.
Technically you're making some kind of cross between waragi and rum. Naming technicalities aside, I really wish I could try this, because it seems like an awesome recipe that should produce some really tasty spirits and it's a lot more practical than "traditional" rum production that takes several batches before the dunder matures and starts giving those funky notes that make Jamaican style rum so special.
Hello.
Thank u for saying about waragi..it put a seed in my mind.😎
Ive just been given a few kilos of ripening Bananas.
Perfect timing to give this reciepe a try out.
Thanks for sharing Beaver. 🙂👍
I would love to see a video on Puerto Rican rum recipe and then a pitorro maceration with grapes or almond or other fruit
Watching and support
You have a very appealing voice! 😊 Kippis! Great video, maestro Beaver! Skål bara!
Your videos are amazing!
well done.
Would love to hear how it turns out! 😃
Put a tablespoon of olive oil in the fermentor to break the surface tension and help ease up the crazy bubbling up explosions, works a treat and helps with a few added nutrients
Hi Tommy,
Awesome tip thanks will give it a go on the next banana experiment
I bet this tastes great
I would love to try this and then infuse it into a banana rum cake.
Or bread pudding
Very nice!would try it
Dit gaan heerlik wees,ek maak baie Rum , gaan die een verseker probeer, Thanks for the hard work and effort.
Time to start making this
Great vid, looking forward to seeing the result! Will definitely be giving this a shot!
I am new subscriber... Wonderful content and can't wait to watch more. Hugs from Esquimalt
Awesome, welcome to the channel great to have you here...
Looks like a winner 👍another mash to add to my list
I like it cuz it's in our country it's really expensive I will try it
In your opinion what would be a really good turbo yeast to use when trying to achieve an alcohol percentage of at least 40%
Ice cream, soda, banana split, l think this video is up to shift to the left and shift to the right. Great video. 👊👍
Bananas bananas fight fight fight!!
Enjoying your videos my friend. Thank you for doing them for the distilling community, as we all learn from each other. I'm from NH on the East coast of America ( North ) . A long way from Bearded, but really just a keystroke away. Glad he made it over here and found you. He seems like a very cool and genuine guy. Best to you and yours. -- den
I love science in brewing! This recipe is very right. Thank you very much! Subscribed!👍🥂
Hey B ,great video. This is very close to how I make mine. A slightly different process and dark brown sugar little more molasses and couple extra bananas and 1/3 backset on bakers yeast
Living out in the country i do not have access to fancy yeast ... how does the bakers yeast do?
@@pierreerasmus7005 bakers, or bread yeast works very well for me. It can be used to make any type of alcohol. It depends on your preferences. It does have its limits as far as alcohol tolerance but my washes are between 8% and 12% and experience good results. I hope this helps.
i agree!!!
If it wasn't for Beaver DIY, I would have never known you can make a Banana Rum!!😱
Mooi man!
Great video. thanks. Have bananas on my mind...going to try this when I can get all the ingredients.
Hi C C,
The run on this went very well and the flavor is extremely awesome Tasting video up next week...
@@BEAVERDIY Looking forward to your next video. You have a decent looking set up there. I haven’t distilled any for over a year. I already have too much whisky stockpiled to want to make more of that but I am finding more and more people that like to drink it. It’s always interesting to try something new.
thanks so much for tutorial, i want to reccomend, if you typically make your own alcohol i would reccomend "River Grape" wine :)
How well do those water jugs work as fermenters? Been eyeballing them for awhile now. I usually buy my water by the gallons.
I have .been using them for years a bit of a hassel to clean but good.
And cheap
Wow excellent video wie sou nou kon dink aan banana rum
Were those bottles of sanitizer for your buckets and fermenters? What kind of sanitizer do you use?
Amazing video as always brother!
Very lekker
Thanks for the video, but how many days for fermentation and no need of any clearing or fining agents?
Fermentation took 7 days, and 2 days to clear, yeast dropped out naturally
Should check specific gravity before pitching yeast
Hi please advise (a) where do we get the correct grape juice for the brandy/ and (b) how much yeast goes into the banana rum? Love your videos
Grape juice from Foodlovers is great
It doesn't really matter how much yeast you add because the yeast will multiply like crazy and will all die off when it's done. You just need to add at least enough to get it started, so a tablespoon is enough, but more won't hurt. It looks like he added a half a cup, which is a lot more than I normally add to 5 gallons of grapes.
I’m gonna make this...
What bananas u used kavandish or something else.....?
Baie gut meneer
Lekker man lekker
Hi....what is the sachet that you pour into your preparation
Can I make a rum or spirit using Lychees ?
Silly question How long before you can drink it and how does it taste
8:20 - Leave a "ton of head room", right?
I assume you will distill the fermented wash once it's done? Also, given that you've added bananas to it would I be right in saying that technically this is not rum but a rum-brandy mixture of some sort?
I did that receipe, all that fun peeling bananas, pulping them into goo, really cool, yet in rum itself i had no 🍌 flavor, maybe i did distilled it too high ABV, ???, Dont know. But i also think that mr.B has access to fruits from garden. I am based in Poland where tropical fruits are imported. Anyway final product was good , booz is booz 😄 made a great drink at wifey Bday party with it, .... Thanks 👍
Yeah, it is awesome having access to fresh fruit and plenty of it to play with.
Thank you for the super comment.
You obviously don’t live in Poland
Hey beaver I was JW if you had any tips if I wanted to go for a more “authentic” rum and not use as much sugar and double or triple up on the molasses
Awesome video! another one to put on my "bucket" list :-)
what kind use instead of molasse?
hi.. I’m curious why there is no step of distillation process? anyone could help me to figure out . Thanks
great recipe, looking forward to the next part. Two questions:
1. Is there any danger due to boiling the molasses for 20 minutes, some of the fermentable sugars to be converted to unfermentable?
2. the molasses look very watery by the time you put it inside the pot with the sugar. Did you heat the molasses previously or maybe dissolve the molasses in hot water?
Pure molasses is thick and can be thicker than honey, from what I saw , the molasses appear to be watered down
How much water do you mix with the sugar and how much citric acid
Could you use a barley malt?
Yes will work a treat
For a quickie, gently fry halved lengthwise ripe or overripe bananas in butter at low temp. When browned tip into a bowl and pour already made rum or brandy on top. Enjoy. Yum.
Lekker vet pret! Ek sou laaik om te sien toe daai balon ontplof!! 😁
Hi Beaver, did the banana pass into the final distillate? And how intense is it? Is it a bold banana flavour or more like a banana hint?
Thats what i wanted to know! If you do find his run, can you please send a link?
He He, keen to know here too.
With a bit of luck will find out either way. 👍
How much yeast did you put into that batch?
Looks great Boet! Hope both ferment out equally. What molasses did you use? Looks very thin. We always used the Molatek feed grade as they do not have any nasty's in.
Enjoy your channel! And will be advocating subscribers everywhere I go!
Have a lekke day!
Nice brew, bru!
Thanks
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Just because you are from South Africa
The couple that makes mead, rum, moonshine, and whiskey is the couple that lasts.
My husband got me into making mead and I got hin into making whiskey and moonshine.
How much yeast did you add?
Thanks
@Beaver DIY can you add a bit more specific detail to the instructions. So if we want to try it we can do it right. Thank you
Hi New Country Guy,
Thanks for the comment always trying to improve on the videos any specific info you feel I need to add, thank you for the feedback looking forward to your reply so I can fix and ensure next video is better.
@@BEAVERDIY no problem. I wasn't sure how much yeast you added to the mixture. I want to try making this and want to be sure I have the amounts right when I do. Thank you for responding.
New Sub. I make Mead. It looks like I should be making Rum now :)
Shouldn't we distil this mash? And how much Rum we would get from 20 ltrs of Mash with what percentage alcohol final
Shouldn't we distil this mash? And how much Rum we would get from 20 ltrs of Mash with what percentage alcohol final
Hey Gerg, I make meads too
Wanna try this out. but what is the amount of water you use in the recipe? 20 liters?
Hi Rhum,
Not sure what the exact amount is I combine all the ingredients and then top it up to the wanted volume.
ultrakill noise that plays after you defeat gabiriel in the intro?
unless i missed it ,, but how much
yeast to add ??
1g per litre
ag lekker bra
Can you put the bananas in the freezer to accelerate the amylase?
Trust the man when he says leave plenty of head room. If I hadn't woke up at 2am to answer a call of nature and by accident checked my fermenter it had the potential to explode, the airlock blocked with banana sludge. I ripped out the airlock and decorated my ceiling. Very sticky and messy cleanup.
Hi Roger,
Banana is a nightmare and have had many banana painting on walls and ceiling before I learnt my lesson.
Blow off tubes gentlemen. Blow off tubes are your friends.
@@memyself898 Now you tell me :-)
how much water does the recipe calls for? I do not see in the recipe list
Is there a second video to this?
Is that it? Do you drink it from those jugs or do you have to distill it ?
how much yeast???
I have just stumbled across this channel and this recipe interested me, As I always like to do a few experimental washes each year. A good video thank you very much. Have yourtried using the back set to make a dunder pit? I am not sure how the banana would affect the Dunder though.
Hi Paul,
I have not yet played around with dunder, I did do a generation run on a rum but not the lac infected dunder pit yet.
Planning on doing a series on rum and the deconstruction of rum to see what flavors you can develop with changes in the recipes.
Super interesting and no doubt smells delicious! Would black strap molasses work? Here from Bearded & Bored.
Jip black strap will be great.
Welcome hope you enjoy..
Jip black strap will be great.
Welcome hope you enjoy..
Can you link me your website with your own recipes listed please sir., Thank you for the information. Edit. I see the recipe listed ty so much.
Do have a web page yet working on it.
What does the infection look like.
I'm fermenting lemons and it is getting bits of white on. Is that normal?
Hi Adri,
Will post a few photos on my page with the different infections, white bubble and star formation is normal and is standard LACTO, just as long as it is not furry, or growing hairs.
This looks fun to make but if I were to add in another hobby, my wife would have my head, I'm sure. 🤣
Just use a blanket term for all of your hobbies, call it tinkering and you're set
I bought my ScandoRomani husband a mead making set and now we are having the best time making tons of different mead.
....I'm addicted to, it's just so much fun.
It's definitely worth giving up another hobby for.
Never understood why people don't do things because it annoys their partners. One day it'll be too late
@@gravelboycauty honestly it's a personal choice not to. I got myself into way too many hobbies and had to cut back so I could focus and really grow my skills in the ones that brought me the most joy. If I find I have free time from dropping some of my current hobbies I may come back to this and take a look later on.
Black ones are best!
можно по другому сварить бананы типа осахоревание до 50 град. как в пиве а после залить сахара и мелассу уже в бутыль при остывании.
Так и не понял на чем делать дандер, миласса,или тростниковый сахар. что лучше Но стиль классный
After making mead for couple of months, this video makes me excited to make rum...is it possible I use just sugarcane juice instead of molasses for making a banana rum or any rums since I easily have stock of sugarcane juice from my supplier? Many thanks.
Should work fine
where do you get the molasses?
Hey Beaver, What kind of still did you use?
Column reflux
@@BEAVERDIY I meant the brand lol
The idea of a balloon on the fermenter frightens me,imaging it will pop of and jetting round my house at night and me running down the stairwas emptying my weapons in the hallway... Waking up to a mess and police all over!
I am doing a stripping run on this as I write this note, all went well with my wash only taking 3 days ferment to dry (I live in warm climate), but then came the nightmare of trying to rack this brew, how do you go about separating the banana offal from the wash for the still? all strainers block up instantly the taps block and the siphon hoses blocked. I managed to get 17L in the end but what a lot of mess and straining, it really did put a dampener on the whole experience. I could smell the alcohol in the bananas going down the drain oh the humanity. I suspect maybe the bananas may not have been over ripe enough? I would be most grateful for any tips to make this part easier. Otherwise I am running this stuff and it smells amazing cant wait for the spirit run, can you suggest what wood to age this on, otherwise I'll use rum barrel chips...seems logical. Also I did your spiced rum and wow I am a fan. As a rum drinker this came out as one of the finest rums I've even drunk better loan made myself. Keep the great recipes coming Beaver love your work.
Hi Ken,
Thank you for the comment, yes this was a nightmare to clear, lucky had some experience with Cake recently 😀, what I did was placed it in a filter bag, and let it drain overnight, you will be left with a really compacted offal, you can squeeze it to get the last bit of juice out but was minimal.
It took about 10hours to filter.
What I will do in future is to take my BIB bag and filter it that way.
Many years ago my wife worked for a grocery store and brought home a case of over ripe bananas for me to experiment with ferment into wine or brandy. First lesson learned was the foaming. Second was the fining. Repeated cold shocking got a lot of the fines to settle out. I then used a fineing solution and let it sit for a week. It was too cloudy to bottle as a wine so just ran it. Made a mess of the pot.
Was this 5.5kg of whole bananas or peeled? Cheers
5.5 peeled