How To Make Sweet Potato Vodka

Lets make a smooth tasty vodka from sweet potato (Kumera).

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This turned out really well. Smooth, easy to drink with an interesting herbaceous sweet potato flavor that actually reminds me of Tequila.

Suggested "easy" mash recipe:
Grate 13kg (28.6 lb) of Sweet potato / Kumera
Add it into a pot with enough water to cover it
Add in high temp alpha enzymes (HTA)
Bring it up to 92c (197.6 f) (or as high as your HTA will go)
Mash for 1-2 hours

Suggested "efficient" mash Recipe:
Grate 13kg (28.6 lb) of Sweet potato / Kumera
Add sacrificial HTA enzymes
Bring up to a boil and simmer for 45min
Cool back down to 92c (197.6)
Add more HTA and mash for 1-2 hours until a starch test is passed

Fermentation
Collect all the clear wash, and optionally press the sweet potato / Kumera to get a little more out
Alternatively, ferment on the vegetable and squeeze after fermentation
Pitch your yeast of choice, I used an M-1 whiskey yeast
Ferment until all signs of fermentation are finished and gravity has dropped near or below 1.

Distillation
Distill all of the wash with a stripping run. This is likely quite low ABV so I suggest running LOW (1-4% off the still)

Re distill the low wines in a reflux still. The higher the ABV the still is "capable of" the better. But I did this with the humble T500 and it actually turned out great!

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