Title: Does this count as a Smash?
Post by: delzep on August 04, 2019, 11:53:28 PM
Post by: delzep on August 04, 2019, 11:53:28 PM
Say I decide to brew a beer with 5kg of pale malt, but I decide to take 500g of it and toast it (or roast it or whatever), then add it to the mash (and use a single hop when brewing of course), would you consider that as a SMASH?
Title: Re: Does this count as a Smash?
Post by: TheSumOfAllBeers on August 05, 2019, 12:39:03 AM
Post by: TheSumOfAllBeers on August 05, 2019, 12:39:03 AM
Depends on the competition.
Title: Re: Does this count as a Smash?
Post by: irish_goat on August 05, 2019, 08:56:38 AM
Post by: irish_goat on August 05, 2019, 08:56:38 AM
I'd say no as once you roast the grain you'll have 2 different types in your mash.
Title: Re: Does this count as a Smash?
Post by: TheSumOfAllBeers on August 06, 2019, 10:38:27 AM
Post by: TheSumOfAllBeers on August 06, 2019, 10:38:27 AM
would agree with this. Once you go modifying some of the grist you now have 2 different line items on your malt bill.SMaSH beers are a good learning exercise, but you are not meant to be able to make every beer style this way.
There are some tricks that modify the malt / wort post mash that I would consider legit in a smash beer (but query your competition organiser first).
Any decoction if the mash or mash baking (see kleptinis). Boiling off the wort separately ie to get lots of wort caramelisation & colour, and any parti-gyling.
We ran a smash comp a while back and the rules were well thought out.