Honey malt smash

[Joewalla88]

This was an experiment. I wanted to do a 100% honey malt sour just to see how much sweetness from the honey malt would carry over to the finished beer. I had some extra wort though, so I put it in a growler and made a mini clean batch. It la pretty good. It tastes like a decent brown ale. It was about 9.5 lbs honey malt and 1/2 oz of Sterling for 60 minutes. I used Safale 05. 5 gallon into the sour bucket and 1/2 gallon went into the growler. Got close to 70% efficiency.
I just wanted to share. I thought it was interesting.

 

[Omahawk]

How was the Honey sour?

 

[corax]

I thought it was not diastatic -- how did you get it to convert?

 

[Joewalla88]

How was the Honey sour?

It a still going right now. It smells awesome though.

 

[Joewalla88]

I thought it was not diastatic -- how did you get it to convert?

I had read that it has enough to convert itself. Apparently that's true.

 

[specharka]

I had read that it has enough to convert itself. Apparently that's true.

What was your mash temperature, OG, and FG?

 

[Joewalla88]

I mashed pretty low. Around 148 -150 I think. I can't totally remember the OG, but I think it was 1.044-1.046. I didn't measure the FG of the clean version, but the sour is down to 1.004 right now.

 

[Joewalla88]

I just took a reading of the clean portion. The fg with the s05 was 1.012.

 

[Rfox2014]

How was this? Reading up on honey malt. You took it to the extreme and am curious what 100% tastes like

 

[Joewalla88]

How was this? Reading up on honey malt. You took it to the extreme and am curious what 100% tastes like

I don't totally remember, but I've brewed more 100% honey malt beers since. As a clean beer it makes for a nice sweet brown ale. Think something along the lines of new castle I guess. The sour, I don't remember as well, but I drank it so it couldn't have been too bad. The sour culture I had back then did a real good job souring things up, I would be curious to try it again with some lactose yeasts instead.