Does anyone have any experience / tips for brewing a 100% oat smash? Recipes? Flavors? Off Flavors? Yeast recs? Anything will help. I've including a brief survey gleaned from the googles. Thanks!
---Background
I've got it. A weird sensitivity to wheat, barley, and related grains. My symptoms presented as persistent and debilitating muscle pain, GI issues, and rash. I am not allergic to gluten nor do I have celiac. I've had every test known. So, my brewing has slowed to a crawl. I am allergic to something in the grains mentioned, but I can tolerate oats: I'm gong to give a malted oats SMASH recipe a try, because brewing with malted oats seems to share the same processes as barley.
---Survey - 100% oat malt
Here are some references:
The GF ingredients sticky:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f164/gluten-free-beer-ingredient-list-172558/
Published Paper: Klose, Mauch et al, Brewing with 100% oat malt - techniques and flavor review - protein rest recommended; tasting - yogurt flavors
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/j.2050-0416.2011.tb00487.x/asset/j.2050-0416.2011.tb00487.x.pdf;jsessionid=E7D367BAD494CFB37306098C9CC015B3.f03t02?v=1&t=hyrdhnk4&8fb29046
A thread on Oat Malts - Grainy, Sourness and apple flavors:
http://www.***************.com/board/archive/index.php/t-7150.html
Intentionally sour oat beers:
http://www.babblebelt.com/newboard/thread.html?tid=1108752780&th=1362942382&pg=2&tpg=1&add=1
A partial oat beer from a planned 100% oat beer:
http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=&t=29234
Brewing tips - Protein rest; tasting notes - Surprisingly light in the body and quite fruity:
http://kenanddot.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/100-oat-malt-beer/
Sources for malted oats:
http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/fawcett-oat-malt.html
http://www.fawcett-maltsters.co.uk/range.htm
SMASH with Recipe - tasting notes in next line
http://ryanbrews.blogspot.com/2009/12/100-oat-malt-mt-rainier-hops-smash-beer.html
Tasting notes for SMASH - Taste: The flavor is a bit different than the smell suggests, it is oaty but it is also very very grainy. It is also a bit thinner bodied than you would expect, the grainy flavor is a bit more rustic than most anything else Ive tried, in fact it slightly reminds me of what an all 6-row beer hints at. The hops are really in the background, and the bitterness is a bit low, it could easily be bumped up quite a bit.
http://ryanbrews.blogspot.com/2010/07/100-oat-malt-mt-rainier-hops-smash-beer.html
---Background
I've got it. A weird sensitivity to wheat, barley, and related grains. My symptoms presented as persistent and debilitating muscle pain, GI issues, and rash. I am not allergic to gluten nor do I have celiac. I've had every test known. So, my brewing has slowed to a crawl. I am allergic to something in the grains mentioned, but I can tolerate oats: I'm gong to give a malted oats SMASH recipe a try, because brewing with malted oats seems to share the same processes as barley.
---Survey - 100% oat malt
Here are some references:
The GF ingredients sticky:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f164/gluten-free-beer-ingredient-list-172558/
Published Paper: Klose, Mauch et al, Brewing with 100% oat malt - techniques and flavor review - protein rest recommended; tasting - yogurt flavors
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/j.2050-0416.2011.tb00487.x/asset/j.2050-0416.2011.tb00487.x.pdf;jsessionid=E7D367BAD494CFB37306098C9CC015B3.f03t02?v=1&t=hyrdhnk4&8fb29046
A thread on Oat Malts - Grainy, Sourness and apple flavors:
http://www.***************.com/board/archive/index.php/t-7150.html
Intentionally sour oat beers:
http://www.babblebelt.com/newboard/thread.html?tid=1108752780&th=1362942382&pg=2&tpg=1&add=1
A partial oat beer from a planned 100% oat beer:
http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=&t=29234
Brewing tips - Protein rest; tasting notes - Surprisingly light in the body and quite fruity:
http://kenanddot.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/100-oat-malt-beer/
Sources for malted oats:
http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/fawcett-oat-malt.html
http://www.fawcett-maltsters.co.uk/range.htm
SMASH with Recipe - tasting notes in next line
http://ryanbrews.blogspot.com/2009/12/100-oat-malt-mt-rainier-hops-smash-beer.html
Tasting notes for SMASH - Taste: The flavor is a bit different than the smell suggests, it is oaty but it is also very very grainy. It is also a bit thinner bodied than you would expect, the grainy flavor is a bit more rustic than most anything else Ive tried, in fact it slightly reminds me of what an all 6-row beer hints at. The hops are really in the background, and the bitterness is a bit low, it could easily be bumped up quite a bit.
http://ryanbrews.blogspot.com/2010/07/100-oat-malt-mt-rainier-hops-smash-beer.html
