I recently brewed a Gratzer with 100% Weyermann oak-smoked wheat malt. I will be bottling this weekend, but I am already thinking ahead to the next batch and would love to try it completely from scratch. Unlike proper barley for brewing, it seems that the proper wheat is easily available and so I'm thinking this would be a good candidate for trying to malt and smoke some myself. Then I can compare the two.
Does anyone out there have experience with making your own smoked grains that you have malted yourself? There is lots of advice out there on how to make your own malted barley or wheat and lots of advice on how to smoke grains that are already (commercially) malted, but the authentic smoked grains are smoked as part of the kilning at the end of the malting process. (see http://www.schlenkerla.de/rauchbier/prozess/prozesse.html ) It seems that this is the only way to get fresh and authentic smoked wheat malt.
Has anyone done this? Any advice or tips or online guide?
Does anyone out there have experience with making your own smoked grains that you have malted yourself? There is lots of advice out there on how to make your own malted barley or wheat and lots of advice on how to smoke grains that are already (commercially) malted, but the authentic smoked grains are smoked as part of the kilning at the end of the malting process. (see http://www.schlenkerla.de/rauchbier/prozess/prozesse.html ) It seems that this is the only way to get fresh and authentic smoked wheat malt.
Has anyone done this? Any advice or tips or online guide?