ceannt
Well-Known Member
So, I was driving home from work last night thinking about a sour mash Old Ale kind of beer I have been wanting to make. I was wondering if I should sour mash 20%, 30% of the grist, for 2 days, 3-days?? Just how sour would the finished product be? I got to thinking that there needs to be some kind of scale along the lines of I.B.U.s, and calculations based on percentage of grist, time, etc
. that way you would know beforehand if your beer would just be sour on the threshold of perception, or a real pucker-up-and-slap-yo-mamma. So I randomly came up with the idea of the American Sourness Scale
OMG, says I, thats
A.S.S!
.
I can only imagine the dark look on someones SWMBO hitting playback on the answering machine and hearing Hey Bob, whats the A.S.S. like on that Belgian yer doin? or Man, I dont know how you did that big Brown thing, A.S.S, is soooo high
At that point things really went to hell in a chicken basket we could call the calculations Sour Mash Utilization Theory, or S.M.U.T. Of course none of the Homebrew software would have this on board for a while, so seminars, or Special High Intensity Training (S.H.I.T.) could be offered to teach how to do S.M.U.T. by hand (!) . I can see it now Hey Bubba, what do you say we head to the river this weekend and catch us some catfish? Sorry Vern, Im really getting into S.M.U.T., and I have to finish this S.H.I.T. this week end so I can use the A.S.S. right
Wow, the warped, twisted, stuff that goes through my little mind during an hour and a half drive ..
I can only imagine the dark look on someones SWMBO hitting playback on the answering machine and hearing Hey Bob, whats the A.S.S. like on that Belgian yer doin? or Man, I dont know how you did that big Brown thing, A.S.S, is soooo high
At that point things really went to hell in a chicken basket we could call the calculations Sour Mash Utilization Theory, or S.M.U.T. Of course none of the Homebrew software would have this on board for a while, so seminars, or Special High Intensity Training (S.H.I.T.) could be offered to teach how to do S.M.U.T. by hand (!) . I can see it now Hey Bubba, what do you say we head to the river this weekend and catch us some catfish? Sorry Vern, Im really getting into S.M.U.T., and I have to finish this S.H.I.T. this week end so I can use the A.S.S. right
Wow, the warped, twisted, stuff that goes through my little mind during an hour and a half drive ..