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Smoked Sweet Potato Amber Ale

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Too light in body to hold up to the intense smoke. Good in very small doses. It tastes like a smoked honey ham and lettuce sandwich.
Style: 
Southern Amber Ale
Ibu: 
Abv: 
Size: 
5.0 gal

Recipe

I think it was basic extract amber ale base so something like 2lb amber DME, 3.3lb amber LME, plus additions listed below

Procedure

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38
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3lb 2.oz raw peeled sweet potatos.
Hickory smoked potatoes(3hr, lil burned) and carafoam in grain sock (1hr)
1lb Weyermann Carafoam (for head retention and body)

mash:
3 gal water, 1 lb grain, sw. pot. @ 152F for 50min

boil:
glacier 0.5oz @ 40min
glacier 0.5 oz @ 20min
glacier 0.5 oz @ 10min

yeast:
Wyeast 1056 American Ale slap pack (25 billion!)
date: 
09/11/2009
SG: 
1.0428 @ 60F
39
date: 
09/11/2009
note: 
just in caser. rechecking in morning.
SG: 
1.036 @ 102F
41
note: 
american ale yeast pitched.

SG reading: 1.040@82F
date: 
09/12/2009
SG: 
1.0428 @ 60F
46
date: 
09/20/2009
note: 
bottled 1gal of sm. sw. pot beer for Fullsteam BBF

reading is 1.010@74F
SG: 
1.012 @ 60F
94
date: 
10/10/2009
note: 
bottled the rest
SG: 
1.0xx @ 60F