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Date: 16 Aug 2006 00:43:21
From: stencil
Subject: banana beer
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No, not hot-fermented weizen, but beer made from bananas. An article
in the current issue of /Archaeology/ discusses recent notions of the
antiquity of banana culture in East Africa, and prompted googling for
"banana plantain beer." Among many hits these three
http://www.congocookbook.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1499&sid=74cb1b4f46d3dfe7224d84776ca496ba
and
http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=187
and
http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5045E/x5045E08.HTM
provide recipe-like documents.
The purpose of this post, then, is to ask, Has anyone ever tasted this
stuff? And, Having tasted it, could you endorse building a batch?
stencil sends
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Date: 18 Aug 2006 06:07:18
From:
Subject: Re: banana beer
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When I was a Peace Corps volunteer in central Africa about 20 years
ago, the local brew was banana beer called kasiksi. The method used to
make this beverage is basically the one described in the first link
that you attached. I have always wanted to recreate it, but have not
yet done so. The flavor is, um, interesting, and the taste is an
acquired one. I drank it almost daily and grew to like it. There was,
however, always a certain old sock quality to the flavor. Also, it
needs to be drunk pretty quickly. After about five or six days, it
tastes like vinegar. If you were attempting it here, I think that you
would have to add yeast rather than relying on natural fermentation. I
would enjoy hearing about your results.
Bill Graves
stencil wrote:
> No, not hot-fermented weizen, but beer made from bananas. An article
> in the current issue of /Archaeology/ discusses recent notions of the
> antiquity of banana culture in East Africa, and prompted googling for
> "banana plantain beer." Among many hits these three
>
> http://www.congocookbook.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1499&sid=74cb1b4f46d3dfe7224d84776ca496ba
>
> and
>
> http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=187
>
> and
>
> http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5045E/x5045E08.HTM
>
> provide recipe-like documents.
>
> The purpose of this post, then, is to ask, Has anyone ever tasted this
> stuff? And, Having tasted it, could you endorse building a batch?
>
> stencil sends
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Date: 19 Aug 2006 00:44:54
From: stencil
Subject: Re: banana beer
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On 18 Aug 2006 06:07:18 -0700, Bill Graves wrote:
>[ ... ] The flavor is, um, interesting, and the taste is an
>acquired one. I drank it almost daily and grew to like it. There was,
>however, always a certain old sock quality to the flavor. Also, it
>needs to be drunk pretty quickly. After about five or six days, it
>tastes like vinegar. If you were attempting it here, I think that you
>would have to add yeast rather than relying on natural fermentation. I
>would enjoy hearing about your results.
>
>Bill Graves
>
Hmm. Fortunately my neighborhood resembles central Africa only in the
quality of the government, not the climate or the atmospheric
microflora. But even so I think I'll wait a few weeks to run a
mini-batch and feed it to an established yeast cake. ttyl.
stencil sends
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