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1 - don't waste valuable beer calories on me
2 - tasty, walter approves
3 - so good you should have it for breakfast

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Midnight Sweet Potato Porter

5 gallons, extract


0.5 lbs roasted barley
0.25 lbs chocolate malt

6 lbs light dried malt extract
8.5 lbs sweet potatoes, peeled, sliced, and roasted at 350F for 45 min., mashed, added to boil (60 min.)

2 oz Cluster @ 7.5% AA (60 min.)

WhiteLabs WLP013 London Ale

Pitched: 11/20/2012, SG 1.035
Secondary: 12/08/2012, SG 1.012
Kegged: 1/15/2013, SG 1.1011

Notes: Unusually for me, this was a completely made-up recipe: I tend to rely on others' recipes, or make only minor modifications of my own. I couldn't find an extract recipe for this particular style, however, which imposed some improvisation. There was a nice sweet potato/caramelization flavour on transfer to the secondary, along with an impressive inch or so of sludge in the primary (I hadn't intended to leave it in the primary so long but I think it worked out for the best). 

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