You could boil them directly but then you're not using the starches to make more sugar, if you add them to the boil, I would roast them first and boil them for a short time, essentially what you need for them to dissolved if added mashed (like pureed, no mashing them for sugars), so like 5 minutes top, you can also add them at whirlpool. All ingredients can be processed and added in multiple ways, some ways will work better and be more efficient, others will work for you because they give a certain note you like but maybe it needs more flavour so you combine methods, and so on, when using "weird" ingredients it's better to approach it from a cooking mindset rather than brewing IMOhttps://www.brew-dudes.com/sweet-potato-beer/3201I would have assumed you’d add the sweet potato during the boil, but these guys added it to the mash. Not much help for an extract batch, but interesting. You could mash yer taters separately () and then add to the boil.
When mashed the sweet potatoes I roasted them first, then added them to the mash and I did get more sugars than expected, so I guess I did extract the sugars from the sweet potato, although it mainly gives colour and sugars when mashed, for flavour is way better to add them to the fermenterInterestingly, sweet potatoes have the same enzymes as malt, which is what makes them sweet when you cook them. I tried to mash sweet potatoes once, though and couldn't get them to convert
I know you said extract, but cook them first and say you did a partial mash!
When mashed the sweet potatoes I roasted them first, then added them to the mash and I did get more sugars than expected, so I guess I did extract the sugars from the sweet potato, although it mainly gives colour and sugars when mashed, for flavour is way better to add them to the fermenter
Not yet, although when I have used it I roast it until it's fully cooked and with the outside starting to caramelise, it tasted like sweet potatoes which is a vegetable but I guess you mean like a herb or cabbage like noteI've always had vegetal tastes with pumpkin, was it the same with sweet potatoes?
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