Roasting/toasting Domestic 2-row to get a pale ale malt

I posted this at the end of another thread and didn't get any response so I thought I'd start a separate thread. Has anyone around here tried lightly roasting/toasting some domestic 2-row to get a pale ale malt similar to Maris Otter and other british pale malts? I've seen info on roasting/toasting pale malt to get crystal, munich, vienna etc. (for example, Home Grain Roasting) but I was wondering if putting some domestic 2-row in the oven somewhere between 70-90°C would impart the added flavors that we look for from Maris Otter?

Cheers,

Greg

I am reminded of the old phrase, "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh&#". Taking a small portion of the domestic pale and toasting it will add some flavor but it won't turn it into MO or any other Brit pale anymore than a new paint job on a Taurus will turn it into a Bentley.

I really don't think domestic 2-row is to MO as a taurus is to a bentley. Still, you're not going to make one out of the other. You might add some flavor though, and it might be what you're looking for. I say try it. On the other hand, if you want your beer to taste like MO, just use MO.

Maybe we'll say, you can't make a cavalier into a mini...

get some victory malt. we used to toast our own malt for our IPA and realized we could get a better consistency and quality by buying a pre-toasted malt like victory.

Coastarine said:

I really don't think domestic 2-row is to MO as a taurus is to a bentley.

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Well I was going to say Jaguar but nowadays all the ones I see look like a Taurus!

Thanks for the responses, guys. My intent is not necessarily to replicate Maris Otter. Rather, my intent is to gain some of the maltier, more complex flavors you get from a pale ale malt over a domestic 2-row. As was stated above by GloHoppa, I could use some specialty malts like vienna, victory, biscuit etc. to give me some of these flavors, but I thought why couldn't I toast the domestic 2-row slightly to impart this complexity.

Cheers,

Greg

I got great aroma from toasting 2# of 2-row @ 350F for 15 minutes.