10 gallons, all-grain
Target OG: 1.028
Crunksauce Grätzer: it shall be sipped from rhinestone-encrusted chalices while sitting on the hood of a car, tradition be damned. More umlauts!
Grist:
10 lbs Weyermann® oak-smoked wheat malt
1 lb rice hulls
The first thing that hit my senses cutting open the first sack of this malt was the pungent, woodsy campfire smoke aroma with an undertone of that bread dough that you’d expect from malted wheat. It’s unlike the bacon-hammy beechwood of Weyermann’s Rauchmalt. The kernels are small with a pinkish-orange smoke pellicle.
That much wheat makes a gummy mash – in his recipe in Brewing with Wheat, Kris recommends at least 5% rice hulls; I went higher, and also added some mash hops for a few more IBUs and a little more filtering power. It was a problem-free sparge.
Mash:
1 oz Czech Saaz (whole) 3% aa
122 F for 30”
148 F for 60”
170 F for 10”
Upon meeting hot liquor in the MLT, the mash wafted waves of warm smoke with earthy, damp, woodsy impressions – a working sm
