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Sweet Potato Ale

Sweet Potato Ale

Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer • All Grain • 19.50 L

bear2bear

Original "strange beer". The fermentables from sweet potatos are not included in the calculation. Sweet potatos were mashed with grains, and provided a lot of fermentable sugars. The taste is on the sweet side, but it has a harsh, rather unpleasant aroma. This aroma is just the same as the one for the Japanese spirits called "Imo-Jyo-Chu", that is also brewed with sweet potatos as a main gradients.

June 22, 2009 pm 01:37pm

4.0/5.0 1 rating

Ingredients (All Grain, 19.50 L)

  • 2.8 kg American 2-row

    American 2-row

    Yields a slightly higher extract than Six Rox brewers Malt. Tends to give a smoother, less grainy flavored beer. Some brewers claim they can detect a significant difference in flavor. Lower protein and will yield a lower color than Six-Row Brewers Malt

  • 0.42 kg Weyermann CaraRed®; Weyermann

    Weyermann CaraRed®; Weyermann

    Red Ale, Red Lager, Scottish Ale, Amber Wheat, Bock Beer, Brown Ale, Alt Beer

  • 0.21 kg German Light Munich

    German Light Munich

    For a desired malty, nutty flavor. Lagers, Oktoberfests and bock beer.

  • 0.21 kg Crystal Malt 20°L

    Crystal Malt 20°L

    Sweet, mild caramel flavor and a golden color. Use in light lagers and light ales.

  • 14 g Fuggle - 4.0 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Fuggle

    Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.

  • 7 g Fuggle - 4.0 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min

    Fuggle

    Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.

  • 7 g Fuggle - 4.0 AA% pellets; boiled 1 min

    Fuggle

    Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.

  • 3.27 kg Sweet Potatos (steamed for about 45min., crashed by a masher, and added with grains for the mashing procedure. ) - (omitted from calculations)

    Sweet Potatos (steamed for about 45min., crashed by a masher, and added with grains for the mashing procedure. )

  • Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04

    Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04

    A well-known, commercial English ale yeast, selected for its fast fermentation character and its ability to form a very compact sediment at the end of the fermentation, helping to improve beer clarity. This yeast is recommended for the production of a large range of ale beers and is specially well adapted to cask-conditioned ales and fermentation in cylindro-conical tanks. Sedimentation: high. Final gravity: medium. Pitching instructions: Re-hydrate the dry yeast into yeast cream in a stirred vessel prior to pitching. Sprinkle the dry yeast in 10 times its own weight of sterile water or wort at 27C ± 3C. Once the expected weight of dry yeast is reconstituted into cream by this method (this takes about 15 to 30 minutes), maintain a gentle stirring for another 30 minutes. Then pitch the resultant cream into the fermentation vessel. Alternatively, pitch dry yeast directly in the fermentation vessel providing the temperature of the wort is above 20C. Progressively sprinkle the dry yeast into the wort ensuring the yeast covers all the surface of wort available in order to avoid clumps. Leave for 30 minutes and then mix the wort e.g. using aeration.

Notes

1-step infusion mashing. Brewed on May 18, 09. OG was 1.064, FG was 1.010. The primary fermentation was vehiment. Bottled on June 21, 09.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 21 - Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer

Subcategory: A - Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.038 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.008 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 8.2 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 4.0% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 11.6 IBU 0 - 100

Discussion

bear2bear

Good when served cool

2009-08-23 11:28am

Served cool, this beer does not have that unpleasant aroma very much, and is pretty good as a light (but dry) beer. The palate is light and smooth.

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