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Product designer & engineer with a focus on user experience. I work across industries, but recently I've been designing large scale web applications and services.

Hi - I'm brewing today as my beer-fridge is running low... Sorry, the updates are long overdue. The 'experiments' have been successful. We've been enjoying a variety of dark, light, bitter, and ginger beer based primarily on sweet potato and buckwheat. Since measuring alcohol yield, I've seen...

Super! I'll be bottling my latest sweet potato buckwheat brew this weekend, so Ill report back with alcahol content / conversion for the first time- I'm excited.

I brewed a new batch today with ±1 cup chopped ginger 8 Sweet Potatoes a mix of 2# malted buckwheat / 1# quinoa / 2# millet. 2/3 of the grain was lightly toasted & ground. 1/3 blended with warm water. I got myself some iodine and confirmed that there was lots of starch early on in the...

I didn't test for starch conversion for those first brews- this is something I'll be doing for the first time later today. It will be a slightly different outcome either way because I'm adding in 1# malted Quinoa and 2# Millet in addition to the other ingredients. I'll take pictures and let you...

Soapy flavors - hmmm, no but I don't consider myself a super-taster. So if you mean something subtle, maybe I'm just oblivious to it. I don't get a strong buckwheat or sweet-potato flavor either. To me it just tastes like beer - one was slightly more sour (but nothing compared to how sour...

I'm Gluten-Free and recently started brewing. I've been mooching off this forum, and now that I've got a few successful sweet-potato brews under my belt (thanks to you), I'd like to chime in. Note - I'm still building up my knowledge and equipment as I go, so the below is eyeballed rather than...