PotatoVodka

Ever wonder why there are so few craft distillers making alcohol from potato? This video will explain why. This video will also show you how to dabble at home making the mash for what will be a potato vodka. Part 2 to follow....

[ignoranceisnotablessing]

Came to see how to make Vodka...accidentally walked into a chemistry class..

[drakedorosh]

One way to get a sugar conversion from potatoes is to lower the pH with HCl aka Hydrochloric Acid. So when you added the calcium sulphate to raise the pH you may have been working against the process. Once you have a syrupy mash with a high brix then you add a measured amount of sodium hydroxide aka lye. This raises the mash back up to a fermentable pH but turns the HCl into table salt which yeast doesn't like but it is all a matter of needing only a small amount. Plus you might add lime (cement type) in which case the product would be calcium chloride a popular wine additive. "Cody's Lab" channel did the HCl acid conversion to make sugar- maybe his video is still there. I definitely works but I'm sure dummies could be very sorry using two dangerous things on the same day.
The enzymes might still work with some acid to help. Don't know. Don't know if you can other acids in combination with enzymes- like citric acid. Starch is cheap and converting it to sugar needs to happen well for economy of production or you might as well just buy sugar.

[VCOOGAN]

I think a-amylase works best around 150f. I believe enzyme activity stops around 170 also.

[lilspittin]

Very concise description of how to make vodka, thank you!

[peterpamlockwood]

great info THANKS...but HOW DID THE RUSSIANS DO IT YEARS AGO?

[MegaDavyk]

An old german guy who was a scientist recently gave me a try of his potato vodka. It was very smooth and mild I guessed it was only about 30% alcohol but he assured me it was 60% and sure enough I could feel its affects pretty quick.
I asked him his recipe and he claimed that he simply cut up the potatoes and let them rot before distilling them. I can find no recipes in English like this but he tells me the name vodka actuelly means rotten potato.

[mattpeacock]

I grew yukon gold in my backyard in S.E. Texas from the eyes that formed on store bought taters. The crop did fairly well. Russets too. I think commercially they're all grown in Idaho and Eastern Washington and Oregon.

[FlyByWire]

Hi, great video however when you use the iodine method to test for starch it is obvious that there will be no starch in the liquid phase. therefore you should use the particles as well to test for starch.

[AlexJordanRealOG]

bahahaha, prohibition university. I want the PU hoodie

[andrewshum]

Hey Malcolm, you should try taro root to convert to alcohol. It’s high in starch and very solid texture making it more viable for distillery. Let me know. Thanks.

[rimrock]

Might try dried potato starch which is used to make instant mashed potato’s. They bring it into Portland harbor by the barge load.

[bradthesing]

Thumbs up for a wash that doesn't just immediately just add sugar!!! It seems so many recipes that's their main ingredient :(

[w.loczykij]

Now please....
5, 6, chemicals. Refractometers, sugarmeters and we hear - potatoes ain't good.
A guy in Belarus goes into his wood hut with sack o'potatoes and comes out with a gallon of vodka. No supplements, no internet, amazon or YT.
Go figure.

[Thereisnorules]

I think in most areas grains are cheaper per kg of starch. And probably easier to process it into a mash.




And sugar wash is the easiest, and the best in my opinion!

[kelvinsparks]

Good video. Now im no keyboard expert but maybe if you boiled the potatoes to a mush to start with, maybe they would release more starch.

[louislucatelli]

How come you didn't add sugar to bring up the Brix

[HouseBricksDoor]

Don't Yukon potatoes grow in the Yukon?

[mdseelbach]

my father was a type 2 diabetic, could eat fresh potatoes out of the garden due to low starches.The older the potato the more starches develop he said.

[johnbrowne]

Would you had gotten better results if you used dried potatoes (s;ice, or dice the potatoes, and run them through a fruit drier or maybe the oven at a low setting?)

[derrickallgood]

would it be cheaper to put in some 6 row?
i know it has a crazy amount of enzyme, so it may save on buying the liquid enzyme. im not too sure how much it is, but 6 row is cheap! it may change what your trying to make though.