made three smashes yesterday ...

[justenoughforme]

did crystal malt and phoenix hops. (belgian monestary yeast)

chocolate malt and fuggle hops. (edinburg scotch ale yeast)

munich malt and willamette hops. (belgian monestary yeast)

these are all in the concrete floor of my cellar right now, holding steady at 63 degrees.


wish me luck !

 

[justenoughforme]

all aiming for 7 - 8 % alcohol, and 50 IBU's.


doing this to try and get an idea how each flavor changes the beer.

 

[m00ps]

wait, how did you do a crystal and a chocolate SMaSH? Those arent base malts and shouldnt have enough diastatic power to convert to the right sugars....Or did you use like some portion of a base malt and like 1-2lbs of the chosen malt?

 

[how1]

Gee, the crystal malt smash might come out a little sweet Let us know how it turns out. I don't think you'll get too many fermentable sugars.

 

[Psylocide]

Um... SMaSH with crystal? Chocolate?

I'm assuming you added DME and just steeped the grains... right?

 

[justenoughforme]

oh i may have missunderstood what qualifies as a smash...


yes there is 6 lb LME in all of them

 

[Psylocide]

oh i may have missunderstood what qualifies as a smash...


yes there is 6 lb LME in all of them

That sounds much better.

A SMaSH brew is 1 malt, 1 hop.

So, usually a base malt, such as 2-row, Maris Otter, Vienna, etc.

 

[Peruvian802]

Single
Malt
And
Single
Hop

SMASH

 

[slym2none]

Yeah, a SMaSH is a single base malt and a single hops. No specialty grains whatsoever.

 

[justenoughforme]

i thought single malt, as in ... one specialty grain.

i didn't even think to count LME with my newbie ass.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

I called that a 2MASH, but it hasn't taken off yet.

 

[fimpster]

SSGASH?

Single Specialty Grain and Single Hop?

Sounds like a.... oh never mind.

 

[mcbar]

Neat experiment. It would have been super interesting to either use the same speciality grain in all or the same hops in all. You would have a really good basis to compare the ingredient you are changing.