potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
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potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
im probly going to catch hell but....im looking for a potato vodka recipe,,the reason is my garden went nuts on the potato end this year. have 200 pounds in racks of pine straw now and have probly another 200 coming... i never had a harvest like this and dont want to waste it. i have even gave a bunch away.
ty for any info
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
Have you looked in the recipe section? I know I've seen potato vodka talked about on more than one occassion. Have you done searches? I do remember reading that potatoes are kind of difficult to work with.
Good luck with it.
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
i was trying advanced search but>>>>> Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. Please try again in a few minutes. also with reg search i can not find a recipe.. i found a lot of ppl complain and had probs with spuds but thats it
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
Well you gotta cook it then convert it through enzymes or malt. Can't really help any more than that but i'm sub'd for curiosity.
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
i know dirty its just the volume,,, 30 pounds of mashed taters per 10 gal? i plan on ag for convert maybe a pound or so of distiler malt .. im just looking for something to work from.
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
If you're looking to convert potatoes without adding other flavors, wheat malt has a high diastatic power and very neutral flavor. I haven't worked with potatoes, but it sounds like it would work.
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
If you do a HD search for potato. And click topic titles only. You will get 44 topics. I'm sure you can find your answer in one of these.
http://homedistiller.org/forum/search.p ... mit=Search
If not a HD Google search came up with 530 hits for potato vodka.
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http://homedistiller.org/forum/search.p ... mit=Search
If not a HD Google search came up with 530 hits for potato vodka.
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
just typeing potato and recipe yes a lot on hd amoste all say "waste of time or why waste time" and "its hard". its been done 100s of years and potato and wheat to me make some of the smoothest vodka. if i wanted ez i would buy a bottle or 16 pounds of sugar. im more less looking for some one with exp in doing it, that has ideas of preportions
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
Good post in an interesting blog, you may have to use google translate, very good description of the potato spirit in hi-falutin French style;
http://www.devenir-distillateur.com/blo ... terre.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
e.g. "The ammoniac has a "pee-pee poo-poo" side which touches us at the depth of our being and the "base notes" of perfumerie often evoke these fundamental aromas (amber and musk). One also remembers the abominable odour of the cadaver of a rotting potato."' etc. etc.
http://www.devenir-distillateur.com/blo ... terre.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
e.g. "The ammoniac has a "pee-pee poo-poo" side which touches us at the depth of our being and the "base notes" of perfumerie often evoke these fundamental aromas (amber and musk). One also remembers the abominable odour of the cadaver of a rotting potato."' etc. etc.
Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
Hey, Did you ever cone across an recipe? I am doing the same thing... Or trying to
It's hard to find an detailed recipe
It's hard to find an detailed recipe
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
Russian recipe as follows:
1 gal distilled water
1 lb wheat
2 lbs potatoes
1/2 lb beets
1 1/2 lbs dry malt extract
Distill to 80 to 90 percent ABV
Use a fractional or column still for best results.
Triple filter through activated carbon.
Use clean distilled water and cut to drinking strength
That's one I found a while back but can't remember where
1 gal distilled water
1 lb wheat
2 lbs potatoes
1/2 lb beets
1 1/2 lbs dry malt extract
Distill to 80 to 90 percent ABV
Use a fractional or column still for best results.
Triple filter through activated carbon.
Use clean distilled water and cut to drinking strength
That's one I found a while back but can't remember where
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
Don't believe all the Tater Haters, spud hooch is alive and well!
I've got my third batch in the fermenter right now.
I originally tried this because I got a really good deal on potatoes at the store one night. I bought 80 lbs, and then was disappointed to log on to HD and read all the sad news about working with them.
My experience has been that as long as you meet the lowly potato on its own terms, they work just fine. The biggest thing with spuds is that they are only about 15% usable starch by weight, so you need to use a LOT of them.
I haven't formulated a real recipe, yet, but here is what I did:
First of all, figure on about 100 lbs of potatoes. At 15% starch, you need a lot of them to get enough to ferment out of them.
I bake them in the oven, about 20 pounds at a time, on two racks, at 350 for a little under 2 hours. Not that much work, just a lazy day of having the house smell like thanksgiving.
When I take them out of the oven, I slice them into 1/4's and drop them in a pot for boiling. Add just enough water to cover the potatoes and heat up to about 180. This will sort of re-hydrate the taters and make them easier to smash up.
Then I go at them with a paint mixer on the end of a 1/2" drill. It is a little tricky to find the right amount of water to do this in, but there is a sweet spot where they mix right up and make a thick slurry.
When I get all the potatoes smashed up, I divide them into 5 or 6 5-gallon pails. When they cool down to about 150, I mix up a mash recipe of 5 pounds malted barley, 5 pounds malted wheat, and 5 pounds of malted rye.
I stir up the grains in hot water, about 160 deg, it will drop to about 150, and then divide the grain mash up into the potato buckets. Try to insulate this if you can, and mix it once or twice over the next hour or two. At the end of 2 hours, I have been testing with iodine and it looks like I'm getting full starch conversion.
Then I just dump it all in a big trash can, add about 3 tablespoons calcium chloride, add water, if you need to, to get to about a 25-30 gallon mark, and wait for it to cool. I've just been covering it and waiting overnight, but you could use a chiller if you worry about it sitting that long. I've been getting about 1.05 SG. Pitch yeast when cool and let 'er rip.
When fermentation is finished, I use a paint straining bag to filter out all the potato and grain pieces/parts. I'll admit, this is kind of a pita, but you must keep your eye on the prize. Then I let the ferment settle out for a day or two in carboys. I end up with about 15 gallons of clear potato beer racked off the sediment.
I strip the ferment, and do one spirit run. I end up with about 3 quarts of finished spirit after taking pretty ruthless cuts. The finished goods have a lively character, definitely a potato thing going on in there. I suppose another run through the still might tame it down a little more, if that is to your liking, but I'm happy with the single spirit run.
I know that might sound like a lot of work, and it does pretty much use up the day, but you will end up with a product that isn't easy to get any other way!
Good Luck. Please try this! I would love to hear other's experience with this!
I've got my third batch in the fermenter right now.
I originally tried this because I got a really good deal on potatoes at the store one night. I bought 80 lbs, and then was disappointed to log on to HD and read all the sad news about working with them.
My experience has been that as long as you meet the lowly potato on its own terms, they work just fine. The biggest thing with spuds is that they are only about 15% usable starch by weight, so you need to use a LOT of them.
I haven't formulated a real recipe, yet, but here is what I did:
First of all, figure on about 100 lbs of potatoes. At 15% starch, you need a lot of them to get enough to ferment out of them.
I bake them in the oven, about 20 pounds at a time, on two racks, at 350 for a little under 2 hours. Not that much work, just a lazy day of having the house smell like thanksgiving.
When I take them out of the oven, I slice them into 1/4's and drop them in a pot for boiling. Add just enough water to cover the potatoes and heat up to about 180. This will sort of re-hydrate the taters and make them easier to smash up.
Then I go at them with a paint mixer on the end of a 1/2" drill. It is a little tricky to find the right amount of water to do this in, but there is a sweet spot where they mix right up and make a thick slurry.
When I get all the potatoes smashed up, I divide them into 5 or 6 5-gallon pails. When they cool down to about 150, I mix up a mash recipe of 5 pounds malted barley, 5 pounds malted wheat, and 5 pounds of malted rye.
I stir up the grains in hot water, about 160 deg, it will drop to about 150, and then divide the grain mash up into the potato buckets. Try to insulate this if you can, and mix it once or twice over the next hour or two. At the end of 2 hours, I have been testing with iodine and it looks like I'm getting full starch conversion.
Then I just dump it all in a big trash can, add about 3 tablespoons calcium chloride, add water, if you need to, to get to about a 25-30 gallon mark, and wait for it to cool. I've just been covering it and waiting overnight, but you could use a chiller if you worry about it sitting that long. I've been getting about 1.05 SG. Pitch yeast when cool and let 'er rip.
When fermentation is finished, I use a paint straining bag to filter out all the potato and grain pieces/parts. I'll admit, this is kind of a pita, but you must keep your eye on the prize. Then I let the ferment settle out for a day or two in carboys. I end up with about 15 gallons of clear potato beer racked off the sediment.
I strip the ferment, and do one spirit run. I end up with about 3 quarts of finished spirit after taking pretty ruthless cuts. The finished goods have a lively character, definitely a potato thing going on in there. I suppose another run through the still might tame it down a little more, if that is to your liking, but I'm happy with the single spirit run.
I know that might sound like a lot of work, and it does pretty much use up the day, but you will end up with a product that isn't easy to get any other way!
Good Luck. Please try this! I would love to hear other's experience with this!
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
Thanks for that MI.....
Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
Ole boys want to hear about straining them taters. Ha ha
they used screen wire an it was a mess. Yellow jackets
everywhere along with a mix of Japanese hornets mosquito
an nats. They boiled there's . They had all the sweet taters
they wanted for free an they put that on the same page
with cantaloupes.
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they used screen wire an it was a mess. Yellow jackets
everywhere along with a mix of Japanese hornets mosquito
an nats. They boiled there's . They had all the sweet taters
they wanted for free an they put that on the same page
with cantaloupes.
So I'm tole
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
Thanks, Goose Eye, I read your experience when researching for my "recipe". I ran across a lot of talk of yellow jackets, hornets, straining messes, low yields, kicked over barrels....goose eye wrote:Ole boys want to hear about straining them taters. Ha ha
they used screen wire an it was a mess. Yellow jackets
everywhere along with a mix of Japanese hornets mosquito
an nats. They boiled there's . They had all the sweet taters
they wanted for free an they put that on the same page
with cantaloupes.
So I'm tole
Someone called it "big mess / low yield".
I would agree that making spirits from potatoes is no way to live a life. Lots of other ways to produce a good drop much more efficiently!
I won't be switching over to potatoes for all my batches, that's for sure. The whole process made me happy to get back to something easy like mashing corn...
But, making a bottle of mashed potatoes spirit was just to enticing to not try
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
I think I speak for many here tho husker when I say we admire the hell outta your ambition tho. Great fun followin your crazy escapades.MichiganCornhusker wrote: I won't be switching over to potatoes for all my batches, that's for sure. The whole process made me happy to get back to something easy like mashing corn...
But, making a bottle of mashed potatoes spirit was just to enticing to not try
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
Homemade, you still got those potatoes on straw? Groddi, you gonna do this thing?Jimbo wrote:Great fun followin your crazy escapades.
If anyone wants to join me on the great potato journey, I will include the part about smoking the spuds ....
(and since Jimbo's already "outed" me and my escapades, I could even tell you about the great potato interment )
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MichiganCornhusker wrote:Homemade, you still got those potatoes on straw? Groddi, you gonna do this thing?Jimbo wrote:Great fun followin your crazy escapades.
If anyone wants to join me on the great potato journey, I will include the part about smoking the spuds ....
(and since Jimbo's already "outed" me and my escapades, I could even tell you about the great potato interment )
Im all for trying new things, and I need a new challenge
I was not successful in making a mash without suger
I mashed fine sliced potatoes on 65-67 degrees Celsius for 4 hours (10kg potatoes 2 kg Munich malt) with the SG of 1020- so I added suger, if you were successful please tell me how you mashed em.
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
Groddi, I mashed 100# potatoes with 15# of malted grains. Mashed at about 148 deg for a few hours. How much water did you use?Groddi wrote:if you were successful please tell me how you mashed em.
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Glad I found this. I think your recipe / instructions deserve thier own thread mch.
I had some success making a small potato mash for my thumper and running a sugar wash through it from the primary. It's not authentic, but it was a lot easier. It smells and tastes like a whole vegtable garden.
I had some success making a small potato mash for my thumper and running a sugar wash through it from the primary. It's not authentic, but it was a lot easier. It smells and tastes like a whole vegtable garden.
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
Hey, Brutal, I did read your Potato Experiment thread a few times. I notice SoMo and Bushman showed some interest, too.
You're right about the flavors in the final spirit: definitely earthy, not neutral at all. I've only run one spirit run on my batches, and as they air out and age a little the flavors are becoming more pronounced. I think when I get my latest batch done I might do a second spirit run and see where that gets me. I just got some enzymes to play around with, I might even attempt a 100% tater batch down the road. If I can gather my thoughts and come up with a clear explanation of my processes so far I will start a recipe thread just for this, under the veggie section. Interesting journey so far.
You're right about the flavors in the final spirit: definitely earthy, not neutral at all. I've only run one spirit run on my batches, and as they air out and age a little the flavors are becoming more pronounced. I think when I get my latest batch done I might do a second spirit run and see where that gets me. I just got some enzymes to play around with, I might even attempt a 100% tater batch down the road. If I can gather my thoughts and come up with a clear explanation of my processes so far I will start a recipe thread just for this, under the veggie section. Interesting journey so far.
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Re: potato vodka,,(iknow im going to catch hell)
I read today that storing potatoes in the refrigerator 32-40 degrees breaks down the starch into sugar.
http://stilltasty.com/questions/index/74/page:1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow. the same claim appears on multiple sites.
I found no info on how effectively extra cold storage converts starch to sugar.
http://stilltasty.com/questions/index/74/page:1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow. the same claim appears on multiple sites.
I found no info on how effectively extra cold storage converts starch to sugar.
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