ohad

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I made some sweet potato beer!
why? you know why.....

Its bottling day tomorrow, and I'll get some first impression.
When you sniff it, it smells like.... sweet potato pie!

1 kg. German Dark Munich
0.3 kg. Weyermann CaraMunich III®
4 kg. English 2-row Pale
22 g. Sterling (Pellets, 7.50 %AA) boiled 60 minutes.
8 g. Sterling (Pellets, 7.50 %AA) boiled 10 minutes.
2 kilograms Mashed baked sweet potato
1 tablespoons spice mix(cinamon,pepper,allspice,clove)
Yeast: White Labs WLP051 California Ale V

Notes
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The sweet potatoes were baked, mashed and put into the mash.
spices @ 3 mins.

Vital Statistics
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Original Gravity: 1.050
Terminal Gravity: 1.010
Color: 12.03 SRM
Bitterness: 24.6 IBU
Alcohol (%volume): 5.2 %

SnickASaurusRex

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Sounds Deliciouso... A vegetable starch adjunct beer is on my to-do list.

I was thinking of something a little strange, maybe yucca, rutabaga... parsnip, see this is why I haven't sat down and put one together yet. Maybe I might just stick to sweet taters and punk-ins.

GunnerMan

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So you add the sweet potatos to your mash at 3 mins left of mash? Tell me what you think, this sounds great, I just hope there is no stuck sprage from sweet potato gunk.

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Secondary:
Bottled: Cream of Three Crops, Hazed and Infused Clone
Planned: A green chile beer, I live in New Mexico gotta have the green chile beer.

SnickASaurusRex

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I think ohad meant that the taters go into the mash for the entire mash time, and the spices go into the boil at the last 3 min.

ohad

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yes.
sweet potatoes were in the mash. I mashed for 90 mins.
The sparge was OK.

effigyoffaith

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that sounds very tasty. I will have to try something like this.

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Fermenting:
Bulk Aging: Oud bruin with elderberries, Brett Saison, ordinary bitter.
Bottled: Oud Bruin, cider, black raspberry mead, Elderberry wine.

GunnerMan

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Ok got it, this sounds like a great fall beer but im not picky about seasons. I think I will do this after I brew up my chimay clone and my Bitburgale is done.

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Primary : Honeybuns Weizen, Ode to Arthur(with partial sour)
Secondary:
Bottled: Cream of Three Crops, Hazed and Infused Clone
Planned: A green chile beer, I live in New Mexico gotta have the green chile beer.

conpewter

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I was talking to a guy the other day about his pumpkin beer and tasting it (really good), turns out that he ages it for a year before it gets to be good, has a lot of vegetable characteristics before that, you may need to do the same with yours, at least save a six pack for that long to try it out.

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Primary: Nothin
Secondary: Shady Lord RIS, Water to Barleywine, Pumpkin wine, burnt mead
Kegged: Crappy infected mild
Bottles: Apfelwein, 999 Barleywine, Oatmeal Stout, Robust Porter, Robust smoked porter, Simcoe Smash

Aspera

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Rock on! Why the spices? Do they bring out the the sweet potato flavor?

chri5

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Sounds like an interesting alternative to a pumpkin beer. I may have to try this in a small batch...

Also, is this the same ohad from athleticsnation.com?

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