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Cooking & Food Talk => Charcoal Grilling & BBQ => Topic started by: blksabbath on April 14, 2016, 05:21:15 PM

Title: Smoking malt for a brown ale
Post by: blksabbath on April 14, 2016, 05:21:15 PM
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Fun stuff.  If any of you Stl guys are into beer/brewing let me know.  We're doing 30 gallons Saturday.


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Title: Re: Smoking malt for a brown ale
Post by: MeatAndPotatos on April 14, 2016, 09:22:00 PM
Nice but I am betting that you wont get much penetration into that mass... Which is probably a good thing :P

Id do... Just as a random guess... Somewhere between 5-10% of your malt bill, but spread out thin on one of those spatter screens that are flat.
Title: Re: Smoking malt for a brown ale
Post by: blksabbath on April 15, 2016, 04:49:29 AM
It actually works out pretty good.  It's hard to tell from the angle, but it's not solid bowl. It's big stainless colander and was stirred every 30min or so for 2 hours.  It's about 6lbs of malt so I wouldn't have enough room to spread it out.  Last time I did it this way the smoke was awesome.  It was about 4lbs in a 17lb grain bill.

We're only doing part of the batch with some smoke so only a few lbs of this will be used tomorrow.  The rest will go in a smoked porter in a few weeks.

I need to get a roti with one of those mesh cages to do this.


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Title: Re: Smoking malt for a brown ale
Post by: addicted-to-smoke on April 15, 2016, 05:43:49 AM
When I retire in a few decades, using my Webers for roasting coffee and beer making will pretty much make my life complete.