Potato wine, turning the starch into sugar

[mush]

Hi there
I have read and watched many thing on the internet and can not seam to find a simple solution to turning the starch from potato's into sugar

 

[Harleybrew32]

never made potato wine, but i would add some grains to it, that should help to convert the starches to sugar. I am going to add some grains to rice when i do a lite lager one of these days.
maybe some else can help more
cheers

 

[hjblwme]

Research potato vodka.

They use almost the same general process to start by making “beer”.

 

[mush]

[QUOTE="Harleybrew32, post: 8768970,but i would add some grains to it, that should help to convert the starches to sugar. [/QUOTE]
but the grain wont convert it to suger though will it

 

[mush]

They use almost the same general process to start by making “beer”.

but potatos wonk cook like malted barleyl!

 

[day_trippr]

So?
There are plenty of "recipes" on the interwebz for using potatoes to make alcohol.
They all start with mashed potatoes

fwiw, in lieu of adding barley for the enzymes, one could use something like Beano to turn the mashies into sugar. The one thing I don't see mentioned is how the hell does one lauter and sparge a crapton of mashed potatoes

Cheers! (maybe go 50/50 potatoes and rice hulls? )

 

[hjblwme]

but potatos wonk cook like malted barleyl!

I’m not sure on that one. But the general process is the same. When making vodka/beer/moonshine/whiskey or most other imbibeables they all start with the same basics. Turning the starch into fermentable sugar, adding yeast, and getting “beer”. Then with high test beverages it is distilled (boiled) to get the alcohol off. Then the high test is either aged in barrels (bourbon/whiskey) or left pure (grain alcohol/vodka/moonshine).

Yes there are different steps for different flavors or different initial starches/sugars, but it all follows the same process.

Traditionally vodka was made from potatoes. Which is what you would end up with if using taters.

 

[hjblwme]

https://milehidistilling.com/how-to-make-vodka/

 

[mush]

to be honest if no one hear has ever done it before thne there no further point.........................

 

[mush]

Beano

Beano, thats the name of a kids comic magazine

 

[day_trippr]

Wouldn't be the the way I'd go but you could try pitching a shredded comic book and see if it kicks...

Cheers!

 

[Bobby_M]

You can buy powdered Amylase enzyme at any homebrew store. That's how you turn starch into sugar.

 

[Jayjay1976]

Instant mashed potatoes+amylase

Instant potatoes are pre-gelatinized and cheap.