Production of alcoholic beverages from sweet potatoes

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable the production of new liquors using a sweet potato as a raw material in a desired period throughout the year and prevent the distillation waste liquor from producing in a period and to provide a method for producing the liquors good in flavor without any malodor peculiar to the sweet potato. SOLUTION: A harvested raw sweet potato is finely cut to a suitable size such as the form of a die. Hot water at 70-100 deg.C is then blown thereon to purify a dried sweet potato raw material in an unsteamed state capable of with standing the storage The pulverizing treatment of the resultant dried sweet raw material is carried out at any time, preferably at the time of harvesting that sweet potato and charged together with water into primary unrefined liquors to conduct the alcoholic fermentation.