I've been watching moonshiners on discovery and saw an episode where they were making scotch shine. They started by germinating barley then smoking the germ. Afterwards they mashed, fermented, and then processed to make the shine. So minus the processing part it would seem the process is pretty much the same as making beer without hops.
So if a person was to make an high gravity ale without adding the hops then was to fractionally concentrate the resulting brew, would this approximately be considered the same?
So if a person was to make an high gravity ale without adding the hops then was to fractionally concentrate the resulting brew, would this approximately be considered the same?