banana maceration

[bellybuster]

ok, soaked some mashed up bananas in some neutral, smell and taste is amazing but how do you guys filter out the banana crap?? it would take about 3000 coffe filters. Actually 3004
Havin a hell of a time with this but wow... the smell is amazing, so is the taste

[Jimbo]

maybe just let it settle out for a week or 2? Or strain it out and run it again. Often times the flavors in a maceration come right over in the distillate. Be fun to pour someone a crystal clear drink that tasted like bananas and watch their face

[Black Eye]

Cheese cloth First? I know its a pain to multi filter but it might be a solution.

Makes me think of Banana Cream Pie. hmmmmm and Banana's Foster. You could make Banana's Foster Flavored Rum.

[bellybuster]

trying thru cotton first, its working but very slow and only a bit at a time. There's gotta be a better way. may have to build a pressure or vacuum filter

this stuff really does taste wonderful, may not have to filter after the sampling. Hope my wife doesn't mind picking me up off the floor

[DAD300]

I use a french press coffee maker. Can be had a wallyworld for about eight bucks or a large SS one for more.

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Glass jar with SS screen plunger pushes solids to bottom. Pour off liquid. Then start with a coffee filter...

[heartcut]

Made a batch of bananna/neutral macerate and settling/cold crashing didn't do much. Filtering that 2 gal batch seemed like it took about 14 years and it clouded up again in a month. Wasn't that great either, but it smelled excellent. Ended up putting some in apple pie and using the rest for feints. Hope you do better.

[frozenthunderbolt]

I've got better than 2.5 L of Banana (sugarhead)brandy setting on some sliced ripe banana s now.
Planned to strain and sweeten with caramel to make a ba-noffie (banana toffee) pie shine.
Watching with interest

[F6Hawk]

Can you just use a colander? A sieve?

[frozenthunderbolt]

Had bottled some of my banana brandy white, put some on oak and some on SLICED ripe bananas.

Strained it off with a sieve then ran through a coffee filter - worked beautifully: Golden, crystal clear banana colour, and great banana hit of flavour - added sugar syrup to two bottles and muscovardo sugar to the third (for a ba-noffieish taste that i can mix with sweetend condensed milk to make a great cocktail).

Awesome result - needs the sweetness to really shine - way better than white or the oaked version

[mealstrom]

I use cotton rounds sitting in a filter. Works great on thick liquors like Limoncello. The other thing I do is to put a strainer over a bowl, line it with a paper towel, then let it drain through that. The extra surface area makes it really fast.

[mealstrom]

Out of curiosity I tried this, just to see how it would filter. I smashed up 3 bananas and let them sit in a couple mason jars with some neutral for a week. The colander/paper towel trick worked beautifully. It filtered it out to a nice, clear, slightly yellow liquid with no pulp or fibers. I even pushed down on the bananas to squeeze out the last bit of liquid. Worked like a charm!

[Jimbo]

Ive been straining my pantydroppers through a coffee filter in a strainer, like you have goin on there mealstrom, Works great, cloudy pulpy crap comes out crystal clear. First I pour it through just the strainer to get all the big crap out, then the coffee filter.