Post #101641 by Tiki Bird on Wed, Jul 14, 2004 10:14 AM

On 2004-07-14 07:50, freddiefreelance wrote:
Tiki Bird, talk to your Homebrew Store guru about creating Phenolic Esters to get Banana flavors into your beer. There're ways to get the flavor without adding mashed Bananas to the Mash Tun. Banana, along with Cloves, is an expected flavor in some German Wheatbeers, especially Berlinner Weiss. Brewers have come up with ways to inculate your beer with the flavor naturally through the fermentation process.

Thanks FFL, will look into, earlier this may i went to the homebrewers festival at Lake Skinner & i tried Long Beach Homebrewers Club's Banana Chocolate Stout in which they used bananas in the mash, & it had a great banana flavor that i feel you can only get thru using real bananas. Would have prefered using real mangos in my Tiki beer but they are not easy to peal & de-seed, & not as cost affective as the extract.