Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: Wyeast 3068 Weinhenstephan
Yeast Starter: No
Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter: none
Batch Size (Gallons): 5.5
Original Gravity: 1.054
Final Gravity: 1.010
IBU: 16
Boiling Time (Minutes): 60
Color: 5 SRM
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 7
Additional Fermentation: I would recommend a tertiary next time
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 14
Tasting Notes: Its Bananas!

I love this beer.

I wanted intense banana aroma and flavor so i added 6lbs of bananas to the entire batch. After 3 weeks in the bottle it has a Gerber baby food banana smell and taste but with a thin body. After 2 months in the bottle the banana flavor lessens and honey is very prominent. Mash this beer at 154*F

Malt Bill:
6 lbs German Pilsner
5 lbs Wheat Malt
8 oz Victory

Hops:
.60 oz EKG at 60 mins
.40 oz EKG at 10 mins

Yeast:
I fermented with Wyeast 3068 at ROOM TEMPERATURE, so about 76 ambient to achieve banana phenols and esters.

Fruit:
3lbs 3 oz Ripe Bananas, peeled, frozen, thawed added to the primary
3lbs 3 oz Ripe Bananas, peeled, frozen, thawed added to the Secondary



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