RECIPE for a crisp, hoppy SMaSH, that will be a go to recipe.

[Alan Parrotte]

Who has a good SMaSH recipe?
I am brewing 5 gallon BIAB batches.
I have a 11 gallon boil pot.
Did I mention CRISP AND HOPPY?

Thanks fellow brewers.

 

[cooper]

Can’t go wrong with Golden Promise and Amarillo! I’ve heard good things about Denali too but I haven’t tried it. A tsp of Gypsum in the mash should get you some hoppy crispness.

 

[Tom Foolery]

My new favorite is Marris Otter and Mosaic. A good warm weather brew.

 

[tmendick]

You're not going to get much for a "recipe" since SMaSH is really on 2 ingredients. What flavors do you want/like? What commercial beers would you like to emulate that define "CRISP and HOPPY"?

Malts that do well in SMaSH - 2 row, Maris Otter, Golden Promise, Optic, Pilsner, several more...
Hops that do well in SMaSH - Mosaic, Galaxy, Amarillo, Citra, Loral, Cascade, Simcoe, Comet, El Dorado, Lemondrop, Idaho 7, a boatload more...

As you can see there are lots of combinations that you can try, but you need to figure out what flavors you like.

A couple things to keep in mind;
Mash really low, 148ish.
Use an attenuative yeast American (WLP001,1056, US05) or English (WLP002, 1968, S04)

 

[kh54s10]

Made a pale 2 row and centennial. I used a yeast that I captured off a hibiscus bloom. Excellent.

 

[cooper]

Drew Beechum likes to talk about his Expanded SMaSH, or "Brewing on the ones" that he likes to use and it basically consists of this:

One Base Malt
One Color/Flavor/Adjunct Malt
One Sugar (if added)
One Spice (if added)

Use a High Alpha hop for the bittering addition - he always recommends Magnum

Then hop as you like with a flavor and aroma addition, I would also include whirlpool and dry hop additions as well.

He also suggests to use less Crystal malts and use Vienna or Munich instead.

 

[Peruvian802]

10lbs MO mashed at 150-152 for 60 min.

1oz Cascade at 60
2oz Cascade at flame out.

1318 yeast

2 oz Cascade dryhop during active fermentation 4 days in for 6-7 days.

Should end around 1.013-1.015.

Keg/bottle. Enjoy your NEIPA.

 

[Zwerski]

Pilsner malt and Citra.

 

[kevin58]

A great question for the Recipes/Ingredients section.

 

[ewoogy]

Look up yellow rose clone recipe on here. My favorite smash beer I have made so far and at 10 oz of Mosaic, it’s plenty hoppy.

 

[wepeeler]

I did an all 2 row Galaxy with about 55 ibu and 5% abv. Such a refreshing, crisp Summer sipper!

12 lbs 2 row
1 oz Galaxy @60min
4oz Galaxy whirlpool @160F
2 2oz dry hops a week apart

 

[Pratty]

hi.

the key to achieving "crisp" is all about the pH of the final beer.

Best to target 5.2 for the mash and you should get a 4.3 or 4.4 final beer pH.

This will get you a crisp finish.

To compliment the crispness you can either finish dry or close to dry, full bodied doesnt align with crisp.

and for hoppy thats probably the easy part.

 

[Gemadrken]

Can’t go wrong with Golden Promise and Amarillo! I’ve heard good things about Denali too but I haven’t tried it. A tsp of Gypsum in the mash should get you some hoppy crispness.

I did this combo for my first all grain and it was great!

4.8% abv with 5oz of amarillo. I could have drank that beer all day.

Or a cream ale is a sort of smash beer. My recipe is Pilsen Malt + Liberty hops + corn and sucrose as adjuncts. That beer is very crisp and super crushable.


There are countless great options out there

 

[beerbomb]

I appreciate all the input and will be cooking a 5 gal. batch today.
10 pounds of Golden promise with Cascade. I just bottled my first Smash which was Marris otter and Cira. It tasted great when I bottled it!

 

[rossi46]

golden promise and mosaic.
11.5 lbs Golden Promise
mash at 149
boil 60 min.
30 min. 1 oz mosiac
5 min. 2 oz mosaic
whirlpool 2 oz mosaic
yeast of your choice
dry hop on day 3 of active ferm. 2 oz mosaic