Best SMaSH recipe you've made???

[brew_ny]

Vienna/Perle

 

[Scriv]

Just bottled a Golden Promise/Mosaic SMaSH, took a sample and it tasted fantastic!

 

[hifidelity]

I made a Maris Otter/Centennial SMaSH a couple weeks ago and it's my favorite beer I've brewed yet. Of course, I've only brewed 14 batches and this was only my 3rd all grain batch, but still...

12 pounds Maris Otter mashed at 150
.5 ounce at 60
1 ounce at 10
1 ounce at 5
2.5 ounce dry hop for 3 days

Grain to glass in about a week and a half after force carbing in the keg and it's EXACTLY how I wanted it to turn out. Bright and citrusy at first and just a little bready at the end so you know you're not just drinking juice. This is going to be my house APA. I considered adding a little crystal next time to darken it up so that's it's within the style guidelines of an APA, but why mess with it if it's good and I like to drink it. This is the first beer that I've brewed that I WANT people to try.

I also brewed a Pils/Simcoe SMaSH a couple days before that and it's pretty good. WAY more clear than the MO/Cent SMaSH, even though the processes and recipe were essentially identical. I guess through my SMaSH experiments I'm learning that Simcoe isn't one of my favorites, even though it's a completely drinkable beer.

I tried one of the "Single Hop" series of beers at Cahaba Brewing (in Birmingham, AL) that used Mosaic. I'm looking forward to experimenting with that one...

 

[olotti]

A galaxy/MO at about 60 ibu's and 6% is prob one of my fav recipes. Sometimes simpler is really better.

 

[alexacuna]

Did a citra vienna, pilsner-cluster, and soon doing a MO and cascade (with grapefruit). Digging the simplicity of these.

 

[sudbuddy]

Optic/magnum. Malt driven, 1/2 oz of magnum at bittering. 1098 yeast. Floccin delicious

 

[UndeadFred]

Old thread, but really Maris Otter and Simcoe was pretty nice...

 

[brew703]

Damn, 28 pages and only 1 used El Dorado. I'm planning on brewing a couple SMaSH brews. Base will be either MO or GP and hops will be Mosaic and one with El DOrado.
I would also like to do one that is not fruity or citrusy. Not sure of the hop type yet. I'm guessing NB or Mt Hood would be good.

 

[seabrew8]

Any of you kind folks have any advice on a pilsner smash? What yeast would you use?

 

[JonM]

A Pilsner SMASH is awesome. Soft water, enough grain to get in the 1.050ish range, mash at 149 or so. Bitter with an oz of Northern Brewer and add an oz of Hallertau at 5.

Ferment with a neutral ale yeast or do it as a lager - it'll be awesome either way.

ETA: Ale yeast, I'd use 1007 but Chico would work just fine.

Another edit: I suppose with Northern Brewer and Hallertau it's not a SMASH, but it's still a fine recipe.

 

[GHBWNY]

Does a SHaME (Single Hop and Malt Extract) brew recipe count?

Breiss Bavarian Wheat DME
WLP380
Hallertauer

Hands down, the favorite of my friends and family.

 

[eaverycale]

My experience is limited, but the best beer yet in my short career was a SMaSH ESB, Maris Otter and East Kent Goldings, yeast was WLP028. I think the yeast made all the difference, it was deceptively full of character.

 

[krnekdo]

Vienna, Wolf hops and US-05

 

[jschein]

Does a SHaME (Single Hop and Malt Extract) brew recipe count?

Breiss Bavarian Wheat DME
WLP380
Hallertauer

Hands down, the favorite of my friends and family.

Don't be ashamed of SHaME, GREAT STUFF TOO!

 

[alexacuna]

Does a SHaME (Single Hop and Malt Extract) brew recipe count?

Breiss Bavarian Wheat DME
WLP380
Hallertauer

Hands down, the favorite of my friends and family.

Sounds like a tasty hef

 

[ZebulonBrewer]

Vienna, Wolf hops and US-05

Wolf hops? I haven't heard of them? Are they any good?

ZB

 

[Hanglow]

Vienna, Wolf hops and US-05

Wolf hops? I haven't heard of them? Are they any good?

ZB

They are new this year I believe, from slovenia.

I used some in a hoppy Vienna based pale/ipa, along with styrian cardinal (also new), styrian aurora and will dry hop with styrian cascades

IT's still fermenting but fwiw the hops smelled great out the packet

 

[krnekdo]

Wolf hops? I haven't heard of them? Are they any good?

ZB

New slovenian hops
Styrian Eagle, Styrian Eureka, Styrian Wolf, Styrian Cardinal, Styrian 105/220, Styrian 214/61, Styrian 102/44

 

[dreaded_rust]

Has anyone done a SMASH with chinook?
I'm contemplating doing one as my first all grain brew. Not sure if I want 2 row or MO though. Any thoughts?

 

[Hanglow]

I've done all chinook+MO golden ales before and they are good. Also had some Kernel pale ales and IPAs that are almost all MO (some low colour crystal iirc too )and all chinook and they are great

 

[MFWINZLOW]

Madarina Bavaria. Not really a SMaSH as Magnum is my goto bittering charge (but becasue it is a default / always used bittering charge...I think it counts for the purposes of this thread for hop effect and comparison).
Magnum is neutral - and my first time with this Mandarina hop - canot wait to sample after conditioning!
10# Pale Two-Row
2# Vienna
1# Corn sugar

1oz Magnum
8oz Mandarina

1oz Magnum at 60
3oz Mandarina at 10
3oz Mandarina at FO
2oz Mandarina DH for 7 days

Mashed at 150f
DH goes in at primary @day 7 = today....about 3 hours ago

Smells great and gravity sample (burp) makes me believe I will be brewing this a lot.

 

[BlueHemlock]

Madarina Bavaria. Not really a SMaSH as Magnum is my goto bittering charge (but becasue it is a default / always used bittering charge...I think it counts for the purposes of this thread for hop effect and comparison).
Magnum is neutral - and my first time with this Mandarina hop - canot wait to sample after conditioning!
10# Pale Two-Row
2# Vienna
1# Corn sugar

1oz Magnum
8oz Mandarina

1oz Magnum at 60
3oz Mandarina at 10
3oz Mandarina at FO
2oz Mandarina DH for 7 days

Mashed at 150f
DH goes in at primary @day 7 = today....about 3 hours ago

Smells great and gravity sample (burp) makes me believe I will be brewing this a lot.

So two malts and two hops? That's really stretching it.

 

[Peruvian802]

So two malts and two hops? That's really stretching it.

Double SMASH

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[Brettomomyces]

This guy came out pretty good

BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com

Recipe: Vienna Simcoe Smash
Brewer: Tom
Style: American Pale Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (delicious)

Recipe Specifications --------------------------
Boil Size: 13.25 gal
Post Boil Volume: 11.25 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 11.00 gal
Bottling Volume: 10.25 gal
Estimated OG: 1.057 SG
Estimated Color: 9.1 SRM
Estimated IBU: 46.9 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 86.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 88.0 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
------------
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
20 lbs Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 1 98.8 %
4.0 oz Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 2 1.2 %
2.00 oz Simcoe [10.00 %] - First Wort 60.0 min Hop 3 38.2 IBUs
2.00 oz Simcoe [10.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 15.0 Hop 4 8.6 IBUs
2.00 oz Simcoe [10.00 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days Hop 5 0.0 IBUs

Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium Body
Total Grain Weight: 20 lbs 4.0 oz
----------------------------

152 for 60 minutes then raised to 168 for mash out

Yeast was an inland island blend for my local HBS, Quirky's.

Not a true smash from the chocolate...but just for some color. I took this and spun it into a new recipe, adding some caravienne and victory malt, removing the chocolate, and keeping the rest the same. Fermenting now

 

[JJack887]

Damn, 28 pages and only 1 used El Dorado. I'm planning on brewing a couple SMaSH brews. Base will be either MO or GP and hops will be Mosaic and one with El DOrado.
I would also like to do one that is not fruity or citrusy. Not sure of the hop type yet. I'm guessing NB or Mt Hood would be good.

Try Brambling Cross if you want a weird one.

 

[bradleyhunt]

So two malts and two hops? That's really stretching it.

So... like... a regular recipe

 

[Kharnynb]

I've just done a munich/styrian golding smash that came out great, but my favourite is still northern brewer/vienna smash.

going to be trying a mandarina bavaria/vienna next as the mandarina was dirt-cheap last time i ordered hops

 

[NatureOfTheYeast]

Don't know if it's been posted, but Weyermann Pils and Mosaic SMaSH is sublime! It's the Lone Pint Yellow Rose recipe. Just remember to dry hop the crap out of it.

Two-row and Crystal hops with English yeast fermented in the upper 60's is another great one. When fresh, it had an almost strawberry ester, became more rising bread and plum as it aged a bit. Now it has a delicious barleywine-esque caramel sweetness, 9 months later. Still tastes like strawberry.

I'm doing a Golden Promise and Horizon SMaSH with a house yeast from a local brewery soon. Should make a good warm weather blonde.

I love SMaSH beers!

 

[houndsbreath]

Challenger and Vienna SMaSH came out really well. I mashed at 150 'F and hopped with:
0.5 o at 60 min,
0.75 oz at 20 m and
0.75 oz at 2 min.
I got alot of sweeter orange than I expected from the hops and it is really complemented by the malty Vienna. It makes a drop-dead simple, cheap, tasty ale.

 

[wyowolf]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=341353

Basically this Pils recipe is a SMaSH recipe correct? other than the 5 oz saurmalz?