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@cowan322 -- thanks for the suggestions. this sounds amazing! I'm going to start a batch using Roobios tea next. what a great idea. I love the idea of flavoring during secondary fermentation. These are going to be so fun to try. Thank yoi!

Thanks for the reply, Turdhammer. Dried ginger sounds like a great fix. We get great locally made candied ginger here, so I might try that too.

good idea! thanks for that...

Hi team, My kombucha is working beautifully, but I have to say, it is SOUR. What do you add to it to make it taste delicious, like the "Synergy/Dave's" brand they sell in supermarkets? Thanks for guidance. I have a bottle in my fridge I'd love to mix into something to make it taste less...

Hm. My water kefir grow really slowly, but even after a week (1 pint water, 1/2 grains, 1/4 cup sugar dissolved into syrup), the water is still very, very sugared and too sweet for my taste. I'd love it if the taste went towards vinegar, as I actually don't like drinking sugar. Any guidance on...

Water kefir grains eat sugar in a simple syrup you add to the water. Milk kefir eats lactose. They are sold as different products and, in my live and raw foods cookbooks at least, are considered different species. But I digress. My water kefir grains rehydrated well and are nicely plump and...

Just an update from the field testing: the beer was well-received by the 2 Danes and 1 other American that tried it, and my neighbor agreed to give me all his extra bananas from now on! We drank it all (1 qt) in one sitting and it was very nice and effervescent, served cold. I'd say it was...

@TyTanium: I know the Phare des Mamelles. Small world! That part of town is really cool and I like Ouakam as well. Small world! There are some great palm wine places around the Corniche that I've been exploring that have fresh homebrew. You can get a 1.5 L water bottle of palm wine 'to go' for...

Jump in! I found the brewing chapters in the book 'Wild Fermentation' a good encouragement to get started with the basics. I can always move on to the harder stuff as I learn, and what I make is already pretty drinkable...

Thanks for the good question. I live in the semi-tropics without any recourse to air-conditioning, so Saissons and Belgians it will be! That said, I have noticed some cooler microclimates around the house, especially during the winter months when things drop down to the 60Fs. Brewing in 90F+...

I was searching online for banana homebrew recipes and this was the only place anyone had given it serious consideration. I'd been looking for a homebrew forum to guide my brewing efforts (along with 'How to Brew' and 'The Joy of Homebrewing'), and am so happy to have joined this community. So...

Here's the update, team: After 2 days, the yeast started bubbling and the banana mash floated to the top of what looked like a pale opaque liquid. This liquid became more opaque at day 4, and at day 5 we strained everything through a cheesecloth and decanted it into bottles topped with a...

I wonder how funky the banana taste will be. I didn't add any sugar, so some will have converted. I'm not sure I'd like the banana taste if I wasn't trying for it. Did you know that's what you were getting?

Well then, replacing aforementioned (well washed and rinsed) condom with a woven cotton cloth and a strong hair tie right now. This will avoid anyone being startled in my pantry! Looking forward to reporting back...

Just by way of an update: Last night I boiled up 6 cups of mashed bananas with 10 cups of water to make an even gallon, added 1/2 a cup of toasted oats and 2 tablespoons of raisins, then cooled the whole thing, added 2 teaspoons Trappist Ale Yeast, and put it in an empty 3 gallon water bottle...

There was a great local brewery next door in Gambia -- Julbrew -- that did great lagers, dark ales and a malty, over-proof boch. There was a masterbrewer there, but he's since moved on. Local lagers are dull, heavy and include corn in their ingredients, which I find leads towards the over-sweet...

I run a consulting company here with my husband and we develop and implement development projects around innovations, education and health. Senegal has amazing cereals and Slow Food is really big here, so I'm hoping to get a grain mill and start to brew with grains I can buy locally here (along...

congratulations on such a great set-up! I just bought some kombucha and water keffir grains to try, and I'm motivated to do so just now, using old wine bottles. fingers crossed...

I just joined homebrewtalk and am looking forward to brewing my first batch of honey wine and banana beer starting tonight. I have 'How to Brew' and 'The Complete Joy of Homebrewing', and am inheriting a friend's brew equipment after the summer. At the moment, I'm using old-school empty...

I live in West Africa and my neighbor just gifted me with a bunch of bananas. I've already made cake, so I figure it's time for banana beer. My Kenyan friend advised mixing mashed bananas, water, and yeast in improvised quantities and leaving it for four days. I found a post that gives more...