brewing in maine » banana http://www.christopherfalk.com beer and homebrewing in portland maine Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:28:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Banana Overload http://www.christopherfalk.com/brewing/fermentation-brewing/banana-overload/ http://www.christopherfalk.com/brewing/fermentation-brewing/banana-overload/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:30:37 +0000 christopher.falk http://www.christopherfalk.com/?p=142 The smells coming from the Tripel as it ferments have been pleasantly fruit-like but subtle. Once the cane sugar went in, however, the room nearly filled with a banana ester flavor. It must be something to do with the way the yeast process the cane sugar. Since we’re doing a renovation on the house my brewing books are boxed away in storage so I can’t do much for research.

I’m concerned that the esters will be too powerful, or linger too much, but maybe a lot of it will be reabsorbed as the yeast go dormant. Either way it’s to style from what I’ve read.

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