ohad

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I think I saw some empty Weyermann sacks in the background in the video.
That is at least one available high quality malt, then.

Do you use the Smoked malt by Weyermann ?
I remember reading that different smoking wood gives very different flavor.
The Bamberg smoked malt (that's the home of Weyermann and Schlenkerla) has a sausage-like flavor in my opinion, and I don't like it in large amount.
Just my opinion...

Edcculus

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I think the only commercially available smoked malts are Beachwood (traditional rauchmalt), and Cherry wood. I think Weyermann makes the Rauchmalt. Don't remember who makes the Cherry wood. Briess maybe? I'm guessing this recipe employs traditional Rauch barley malt and some regular wheat malt. If you have the ability to smoke your own malt, I guess I'd go for 100% oak smoked wheat malt. I need to find a friend with a smoker...

passedpawn

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Briess does makes the cherrywood smoked barley malt (see my recipes for a smoke I made with it).

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FalangaNR

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donalcon1

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hi all just wondering ive a friend moving to poland for a few months and was wondering if anybody knew if there is anything like homebrew shops over there? he is big into it.

any help you can give would be great

kopyr

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Yes, a few.

Browamator
Centrum Piwowarstwa
Homebrewing.pl
Twój Browar

If he need any help with translation or something else, he can write at the forum at piwo.org or browar.biz.

donalcon1

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thanks a million for that

passedpawn

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I can't believe no one here has brewed this beer since it was posted.

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and others take delight in the hurling and the bowling
but I take delight in the juice of the barley
and courting pretty fair maids in the morning bright and early

opteek

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I'm going to try brewing this up. I smoked 10 pounds of malted wheat with white oak for 90-100 minutes this past weekend. It smells awesome! The fire got a little hot towards the end and the temp went all the way to 180F.

Got a little browning and some burnt grains but nothing too bad. I'm planning on roasting a pound or so in the oven on brewday and then mashing all 10 pounds. Don't have any Saaz or Lubin on hand, so I'm thinking of using Magnum and Hallertau.

ReverseApacheMaster

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Personally I don't see a reason to toast grains in the oven. Your wheat malt is already kilned, so smoking it gets you something of a second kiln, which as you saw causes some browning -- or roasting -- of the grain. I could only see a reason to toast the grains further if you are skilled enough with the smoker to prevent any additional browning in that step.

I know Mosher advocates toasting some of the grain in the over, but like I said, for those of us who are amatuers at smoking you're going to end up adding that roast flavor from the heat in the smoker...