Raise the jolly rancher

I don’t quite know why I didn’t realize I’d have to individually unwrap these and it’d be a pain in the ass, but there’s no going back now. Blue razz jolly rancher distillate soon. I’ve also got my sweet potato beer fermenting (it’s supposed to be pumpkin and sweet potato but the pumpkin I bought was rotting on the inside, so I just rolled with what I have). I also ended up making 80 dog treats from some of the spent grains from the beer, if pupper is happy I’m happy. Over all I think I’m coming back from my one year brewing break with a vengeance.

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Can you share your recipe for sweet potato beer?
- Apologies if you don’t use freedom units, feeling a bit lazy after unwrapping a ton of jolly ranchers lol
  Mash, 1 hour: 13 lb 8.0 oz - Pale Malt (2 Row) US 2 Ib - Caramel Malt - 60L (Briess) 1 Ib - Rice Hulls 1 Ib - Brown Sugar, Light Brown 6 sweet potatoes (notes below) Pumpkin (notes below)
  Hops: 1.00 oz - Magnum Boil 60 min 1.00 oz - Saaz Boil 15 min
  Spices/additions: 1.50 oz - Ginger Root boil 10.0 min 1.00 tsp - Irish Moss Boil 10.0 min 1.50 tsp - All spice Boil 10.0 min 2.00 Vanilla Beans Boil 10.0 min 1.50 tsp- Nutmeg Boil 10.0 min 1.50 tsp - Cinnamon Powder Boil 10.0 min
  Yeast: 1 pkg - California Ale Yeast (WLP001) in a 1.5 liter starter for 24 hours
  Notes: 1/2 pumpkin roasted two hours at 375F with light coat of brown sugar over top added to mash for one hour 6 sweet potatoes peeled, diced and turned into mashed potatoes added to mash for one hour.
  
  Hi, sorry, do your spent-grain dog treats include the hops? Apologies if you already know and have avoided this issue, but hops can be horrifically toxic to dogs. I've treated dogs in the hospital for malignant hyperthermia due to hops ingestion, and it's not pretty. Again, apologies if you already know and have mitigated this. If that's the case, please just treat this as a well-intentioned PSA for anyone else who might be reading this thread and enjoy your day.
  
  I am aware of the toxicity of hops when it comes to dogs (hours pitting up a fence around my hop plant will confirm lol), but I also appreciate the heads up and it’s always good to have the info out there for those stumbling across it! That being said, I only use the grains from the mashing process, well before hops have come into contact with the wort. Thanks for putting the info out for others who may not know and keeping all the boopable snoots safe though :)
  
  I love to hear it. Thanks for the recipe and for helping keep doggies safe!
  
  Freedom units are fine, I'm learning metric. I want to try this. Thanks!
  
  My girlfriend loves it! Just note that when I do beers I rent to do high abv beers, I think this batch the potential alcohol is around 12% abv, at least according to beer smith. So you might need to tweak the amount of base grains or added brown sugar to suit your tastes. If you end up making it lemme know what you think of it!

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