also, yuck. http://http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/washington/banana-brandy-moonshine-operation-leads-to-2-washington-county-arrests-684658/Banana brandy, I never even heard of such a thing.
I’ve made banana wine, and it was excellent after a couple years of aging. I made it when banana prices were low, and bought a whole cart full of bananas. Not wanting to pass up the opportunity, I also bought a box of cereal at the same time.
Link no workie.
So what’s the problem, a couple guys making their own hootch out of bananas is illegal?
Fermentation (like making wine) is no big deal. Distillation, however, is.
That is archaic. Alcohol is alcohol, beer or wine or whiskey.
It’s not the fermenting, it’s the distilling that is illegal. The Feds really like their alcohol taxes, so long ago they highly regulated it.
That being said, those guys must be a couple of total knuckleheads if they actually got caught.
Tell it to the federal government.
Home Beer making is legal. Theres even a White House beer now. Obama bought it himself for the kitchen.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-house-beer-recipe
Well I must agree that arresting them seems a bit much. I guess thats all about the taxes. I’m all for making some wine, or beer, thats great. I grew up in a “little Italy”, and have enjoyed many a bottle of “dago red”. But making wine out of bananas sounds disgusting. To then try to distill it into brandy? Yuck x2. YMMV