StillSmart

Hi There I was wondering if you guys could give me a few ideas/Tips on using Potatoes-Honey-molasses-Corn in my Wash-Mash
and how much to use for 25 liters

i've been wondering about the potatoe thing myself.

i would imagine that you need to mash the potatoes @ around 150 F to turn the startches into fermentable sugars...but i have no idea how much potatoes you would need to use.

Anyone else have experience doing this?

Cheers!

Drewzy

Drewzy wrote:i would imagine that you need to mash the potatoes @ around 150 F to turn the startches into fermentable sugars...but i have no idea how much potatoes you would need to use.

Anyone else have experience doing this?

Cheers!

Drewzy

I have done a 100% potato wash, you need to cook the potatoes first then add enzymes at the correct temperature to get the conversion. You could use barley(maybe) for the enzymes or use bought enzymes.
The problem I had was I only have a small oven, so for cooking them you are really limited in the amount you can do. It was a lot of hard work, but the product was excellent.

Here a link to the procedure http://www.artisan-distiller.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5983

I would only think of doing this if you are running a column and able to produce good neutral without carbon filtering, you would want to strip the product of all those nice flavours after all that hard work.

After a couple of weeks the novelty of having fresh carrot juice for breakfast wore off and I have been left with a juice extractor still in its original box.

The figure that sticks in my mind is 5kg of potatoes = 1 kg of sugar.

If I put 25 Kg of potaoes through it, I should have enough starch to play with.

The question is where is the starch? in the juice? or in the dry pulp left behind in the machine?

Anybody any theories?

If you slice potatoes and put them in a bowl of water, you will get starch at the bottom of the bowl. So my guess is that the juice will have the desired starch. Sounds like a worthy experiment. You could try a carrot wash too!

Chuck

The juicer sounds like a good idea YHB, I wonder if heating that up that "soup" would cause any issues with gelatinization like when working with corn?

If you do it let me know, potato vodka was definitely one of the best things I have produced, its just a PITA with the process I was using.

been a while since I visited this post, but I'm interested with this potatoe vodka still, I have a lot on my to do list these days with things I want to try, but I'm definitely going to give this one a go sooner or later.

what's the weirdest thing any of you guys have used to create a wash with?


Cheers!

Drewzy