Homebrew banana beer

For some time I have wanted to try and make my own banana beer after sampling the Banana bread beer you can buy by the bottle.  Quite a few recipes meant trying to make the beer from scratch, mashing your own malt.
Finally I have found and road tested a recipe that I am pleased with.
It uses a basic beer kit, where you add the cooked bananas to the malt extract while heating on the hob.  Nice and easy, but there are a few tips to make things go smoother.

Here is the recipe.

Banana Beer 40 pints---This one uses overipe bananas and ferments on the bananas to give a really bananery taste! 1 normal 5 gal Beer kit with yeast - I used John Bull traditional English ale, single can with spray malt 12 over ripe bananas 2 tsp Pectolase 1kg sugar - normal white sugar  •Peel, break up, and gently simmer the banana in a couple of pints of water for about 20 mins, a little more if the fruit is firm. Mash up with potato masher! •add contents of warmed Beer tin to the banana pan and warm through. • add sugar to a couple of gallons of water in fermenter. Dissolve. •mix in slightly cooled banana mix from pan •top up to 4 gal with cold water •add pectolase and top up to 5 gal •pitch yeast. Ferments fully in 5-7 days at room temp in early summer. STRAIN INTO SECONDARY BEFORE BOTTLING. •condition as normal (1tsp per pint or equity), improves greatly after a fortnight's sit in the bottle. • be warned can be very lively to serve, consider cutting priming sugar a little if worried.

A couple of points to take away from the above.

1.  Priming sugar, I reduced the amount I put into the 5 gallon mix.  Traditionally they suggest 30g per 5 gallon, but I used 25g.  The result is an ale that needs pouring from height to produce a head and serving cool, not from the fridge but an outbuilding or garage.
2. The banana makes it very difficulty to use a bottom tap on your fermenter, so I would recommend syphoning into another fermenter before bottling. If you can leave it over night to settle again (with air lock in place) it will prevent any sediment or pieces of beer getting into your bottles.
3. The taste - it is not the same as eating a banana, in fact, you could miss it unless you are looking for it. This may just be the way I have brewed it, but it is a pleasant  aftertaste of banana rather than overpowering.

My next beer will include honey. I'm searching for a recipe, so if you know of any please get in touch.  Thanks for reading.