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muddy boots
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Potato Wine
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October 16, 2006, 18:09:58 »
Can anyone help please? Some time ago, OH used to make quite a mean potato wine. The only problem was that, although extremely drinkable, it stank to high heaven! He asked the chief homemade booze producer in the village what the solution might be but just got a laugh and was told to work it out for himself! (Which he never managed to do).
Does anyone have a recipe for a good potato wine without the smell? ??? :D
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trojanrabbit
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October 17, 2006, 11:25:14 »
Give us a clue - what
sort
of smell ?
Apologise if that's a dim question, but I've never had anything to do with potato wine, nor has anyone I know. Hence have to go back to first principles and try to work out cause of smell to work out solution. As a part-time chemist, my first guess is maybe it's some sort of sulphur compound, in which case perhaps you could add something to precipitate it out before racking....
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muddy boots
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October 17, 2006, 15:52:43 »
He says rotting vegetation type smell. Sorry, not much help :-[ I'm a bit surprised no one seems to have tried potato wine :-\ Can't imagine why, I never did! Stuck to the easy stuff like cider and perry ;D
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MikeB
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October 17, 2006, 17:03:14 »
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muddy boots
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October 18, 2006, 08:33:16 »
Thanks very much for that mike :D
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Money_Bunny
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October 18, 2006, 21:37:49 »
My Oh made a potato wine when we first started out experimenting with home brew........ didn't have a bad smell but was very strong, 3 glasses of it and I had to help him to bed lol
I'll try and dig out the recipe.
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muddy boots
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October 19, 2006, 06:39:21 »
That's whet he said, very strong :o Would be nice if you could, thanks.
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boldielocks
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November 10, 2006, 10:38:50 »
Never made a tatty wine. But a word of caution! Never use a green potatoe it produces a toxic which is insoluble in water and with stands boiling, also very poisonous.
The other problem is it tends to produce a lot of methyl alcohol, treat this with caution.
Not sure about the smell.
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bennettsleg
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November 12, 2006, 11:10:35 »
Isn't a distilled version, Moonshine? And can't Moonshine cause blindness - or does this have something to do with the green potatoes toxicity?
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Toadspawn
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November 12, 2006, 22:59:53 »
If the distillation is incorrect Methyl alcohol will be produced. It is this that causes blindness and other not very nice side effects.
Correct distillation will produce Ethyl alcohol.
It is nothing to do with using green potatoes.
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