The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-12-20
TO MAKE BRANDY
FROM BANANAS
A NEW INDUSTRY RECOMMEND
ED by DIR. NICHOLAS Russell
TO UTILIZE SMALL PUNCHES.

DR. Melodies Russell advocates the
new industry of distillng brandy from
bananas He says.
At present when considerable areas
are planted i'm bananas. and when Ha-
waiiau bananas seem to find a solid
footing iu the markets of the Pacific
Coast the question of utilization of
small punches becomes of practical inn
pcItn,e.
with all care in cultivation and fer
tilizing, there will always be a con-
siderable percentage of small punches.
There win be another number of over
ripe and damaged fruit that cannot be
marketed. AT the time of fruit har-
vcstiug i'm California bananas are not
wanted. and, if sent are sold below the
cost of transportation. At such times
the whole of Hawaiian bananas, large
and small punches, have to be utilized
some way or other if we propose to
carry ON the industry ON business prin-
ciples.
one of the best ways to utilize all
such bananas is to distill them into
banana brandy. The produce of ba-
mana distillation gives very pure bran
/ dy, remarkably free from fusal oil and
other undesirable and hurtful ingre-
/ dents.
1t possesses a peculiar agreeable
| banana flavor and ought to be very ac-
| ceptable on the liquor market, not less
than dry grape brandy or ordinary
| CognaC.
| Not long ago, as published i'm the
! "Tropenphauzer," the German maya
zine of tropical agriculture. expert
ments i'm fruit distillation have been
made with the assistance of the gov
eminent in Victoria, CAMERON, Ger
man West African possessions. The
results of these experiments are as fol-
| lows:
one hundred quarts of ripe banana
mush produces u quarts of pure. alb
solute 0OOO alcohol, or "A quarts of So
strong brandy, viz, about "a per cent
of the volume of peeled and pounded
| bananas.
Pineapples give y per cent of pine
apple brandy of so strength when
| treated i'm the same way. This brandy
possesses still higher specific pineapple
flavor and also comes out very pure.
Papaias distilled without the seed give
3 per cent of pure QOOo) alcohol equal
, to 10 per cent of So brandy. The pre-
sence of seed gives papaia brandy too
spicy taste.
Thus an AVERAGE bunch of 40 pounds
] weight of bananas ought to produce 10
quarts or 30 gallons of strong :,
brandy. Allowing the cost of bananas
to be one cent a pound. the value of
material per gallon of brandy will be
only Is cents or cents per quart of
| brandy.
Such is one of many practical, OBJ
/ viouS and remunerative Hawaiian in
| dustrial possibilities. If the commu-
/ nifty fails to see it, it is their fault. and
| such being the case, it is preposterous
! to complain of bad times and all sorts
of pilikias of our own creation. Civilized
progressive men make their own
times and environment to suit them
selves. Only rotten, stagnant con-
servatism depends on rains. drouths,
times, luck and other natural and
| immaginary conditions. praying before
the fox hole when it comes too bad
1t serves him right. The present ex-
perience of Russia ought to put all the
rest of conservative" countries, in
Guiding these islands, to some sort of
thinking, if they have left in them
something to think with.