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I actually pureed the bananas before adding them to the fermenter after primary fermentation was mostly done. It seems like the WLP005 I used went dormant or something, as it never really fermented the bananas and when I bottled it, the carbonation never really showed up. The banana, having not...

Current, I do BIAB, but am looking to build a cooler mash tun. How do you folks move the hot water from the HLT to the cooler mash tun? I'd like to do everything gravity driven. My kettle has a valve in the bottom, but I feel like it would lose some temperature on the way to the mash tun. Or am...

I used WLP005. I considered using hefe yeast, but for my first attempt at this beer, I wanted to avoid the possibility of the hefe yeast throwing cloves as well as the banana. I will document the banana-ing process for the forum here. Didn't take much pictures of brew day, as it's a fairly...

I'm in the process of creating a chocolate banana stout. The recipe is just a typical chocolate stout, which I will add puréed bananas to within the next few days. The fermentation is pretty much done at this point. I have two fermentation vessels: a 6.5g bucket and a 6.5g glass carboy. The...