What the heck is a SMASH????

[Revvy]

Could be

He should introduce hisself

No waaay?!?!...He's one of my fricken brewing heroes.

My partigyle pumpkin porter was loosely based on his Baltic Porter recipe...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/786559-post24.html


Sheesh...and he's never heard of the SMaSH concept? Another heroe falls off of Revvy's pedastle...and he didn't even have to f*#k an intern to do so.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

It seems I need to prepare myself for a right good humbling.

Please enlighten me someone?

 

[McKBrew]

It seems I need to prepare myself for a right good humbling.

Please enlighten me someone?

You could just put the words Denny and Conn together and GOOGLE it yourself, but obviously the search function is beyond your simple gnome brain's capability.

[ame=http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS299&q=Denny+Conn+&aq=f]Denny Conn - Google Search[/ame]

 

[Revvy]

It seems I need to prepare myself for a right good humbling.

Please enlighten me someone?

Among his many accolades is that he is the Charlie Papazian of Batch Sparging...

lootcorp 3.0 - a brewing blog » Blog Archive » Private Tastings 2: Denny Conn

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Oooh! Should I bow or curtsey to Denny or something? I can do that! I have absolutely no pride or dignity.


Maybe I can lick something?

 

[olllllo]

Regardless of which Denny this is, the guy has answered scores of questions coincidently about mashing . This is his only question.

HBT Fail.

Beerthoven has the correct answer.

 

[Denny]

Man, you guys are a tough audience! Yeah, I've heard of the concept, but not the acronym. Can I go back to being a jerk now???

 

[olllllo]

The acronym is becoming the, "Who won the 38 pennant?" in our version of World Wort II.

 

[McKBrew]

I feel bad now. I honestly thought Denny was messing with us, but it looks like the members of HBT have created an acronym that isn't well known.

Denny, feel free to be a jerk and mess with us the next time we ask a batch sparging question.

 

[shecky]

I feel bad now. I honestly thought Denny was messing with us, but it looks like the members of HBT have created an acronym that isn't well known.

Denny, feel free to be a jerk and mess with us the next time we ask a batch sparging question.

What is batch sparging?

 

[Revvy]

I feel bad now. I honestly thought Denny was messing with us, but it looks like the members of HBT have created an acronym that isn't well known.

Denny, feel free to be a jerk and mess with us the next time we ask a batch sparging question.

I'm just really really really glad I didn't go with my original answer for smash.

Searching May Answer, S@@t H@@d...

j/k

 

[TeufelBrew]

Shecky's trolling now?

What's he gonna catch?

Seriously Mad and Sadistic Hopheads

 

[shecky]

No trolling here.

Serious Men are Sometimes Heeded

 

[Yooper]

Man, you guys are a tough audience! Yeah, I've heard of the concept, but not the acronym. Can I go back to being a jerk now???

I think they all deserve it, Denny!

Thanks for taking a good natured ribbing, and having a little fun with us.

 

[Revvy]

I think they all deserve it, Denny!

Thanks for taking a good natured ribbing, and having a little fun with us.

Kiss up....first Charlie Papazian and now Denny. You gonna stare at his crotch now too?

 

[Yooper]

Kiss up....first Charlie Papazian and now Denny. You gonna stare at his crotch now too?

oooooh, do you think he'll let me?????

 

[Orfy]

It originated on HBT so it's not used by the majority of brewers.
I was playing with simplifying my beers so I could learn about the components and made a few posts about single malt beers using single hops.

It was an old member cheese food who first used the acronym SMaSH to describe the method.

It's quite a good way of learning the tastes of the ingredients without any masking.

It's good fun to joke about SWMBO and never tell anyone what EAC is but for technical terms it's probably better to just help.

 

[GroosBrewz]

Wow- I aksed the same thing in a thread the other day.. Glad you guys didn't see it!

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Wow- I aksed the same thing in a thread the other day.. Glad you guys didn't see it!

Ask again, go on!............Please?

 

[Revvy]

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[Bob]

It originated on HBT so it's not used by the majority of brewers.

Technically, it experienced a resurgence because of HBT. For hundreds of years, hopped beers were made with barley malt, hops, water and yeast. It wasn't until the advent of the drum roaster and specialty grains in the mid-19th century that brewers were tempted away from single-malt beers. And since it was the 19th century that saw codification of hops varieties - and the 20th century really exploded like that - most of the single-malt beers were single-hop, as well. I have any number of extant historical methods and recipes that specify amounts of malt and hops, not varieties.

So claiming that single-malt, single-hop brewing originated at HBT is cheek. Now, claiming that you and cheesefood hit upon the method as a way of learning ingredients, that's another claim entirely!

Cheers,

Bob

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Technically, it experienced a resurgence because of HBT. For hundreds of years, hopped beers were made with barley malt, hops, water and yeast. It wasn't until the advent of the drum roaster and specialty grains in the mid-19th century that brewers were tempted away from single-malt beers. And since it was the 19th century that saw codification of hops varieties - and the 20th century really exploded like that - most of the single-malt beers were single-hop, as well. I have any number of extant historical methods and recipes that specify amounts of malt and hops, not varieties.

So claiming that single-malt, single-hop brewing originated at HBT is cheek. Now, claiming that you and cheesefood hit upon the method as a way of learning ingredients, that's another claim entirely!

Cheers,

Bob

Nah, They were saying the ACRONYM originated here. Not the method.

 

[Bob]

Nah, They were saying the ACRONYM originated here. Not the method.

OH! Never mind, then.



Bob

 

[Revvy]

OK, I'm a new guy around here and I keep seeing references to a technique called SMASH. Could somebody fill me in?

Mod edit: Just in case people search for SMaSH and this comes up.

Single Malt and Single Hop

An all grain recipe to enable the flavours of single malts and single hops to be tasted.
The recipe simply uses on variety of grain and one variety of hops.

Revvy's Edit of the Mod edit:

I want to say in case someone searches an finds this this is not limited to ALL-GRAIN BREWERS ONLY you can SMaSH with extracts as well....

Some liquid extracts, expecially the lightest lovibond ones are SINGLE MALT as well.

Northern Brewer #20053 NB Organic Light Malt Syrup...Or even using XLT DME and a single hop would be an extract alternative.

Or a base extract + a couple ounces of steeping grain and a single hop. This isn't quite a smash...but you can use that to get an idea of how a steeping grain flavors a base of extract.

But there all 100% single malt (non blended/non hopped) Liquid extracts as well.

William's Brewing even offers Marris Otter LME. MARIS OTTER EXTRACT 8 LBS @ Williams Brewing

Briess offers an all Pilsner Malt Extract Pilsner Malt Extract | MoreBeer

So you too can play the SMaSHing game, it's not the sole propriety of the world of

It's a great way for everyone to get more control of their process, AND to get a feeling for how ingredients work with each other.

When I posted the links to the single malt extracts, a couple brewers told me they were going to do the extract smash...I haven't heard how it went.


So Have Fun!!!!

 

[Bob]

At the risk of overcoming your enthusiasm, Revvy old boy, Briess Pilsen extract is mashed with CaraPils. See the PDF product data sheet.

For that matter, Briess Gold also contains CaraPils. Briess Organic Light, however, is presumably 100% Organic 2-row Pale, for no mention is made of other ingredients on the data sheet.

Alexander's Pale is 100% Klages 2-row. And it comes in tins!

I did a SMaSH with Briess Organic DME, Willamette and US-05, and it was tasty!

Bob

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

No matter what is blended in the can or bottle. The concept is the same. A consistent base malt extract with a consistent single hop. As long as the ingredients are the same age, and preferably from the same batch, an extract SMaSH experiment would be educational.

 

[Revvy]

At the risk of overcoming your enthusiasm, Revvy old boy, Briess Pilsen extract is mashed with CaraPils. See the PDF product data sheet.

For that matter, Briess Gold also contains CaraPils. Briess Organic Light, however, is presumably 100% Organic 2-row Pale, for no mention is made of other ingredients on the data sheet.

Alexander's Pale is 100% Klages 2-row. And it comes in tins!

I did a SMaSH with Briess Organic DME, Willamette and US-05, and it was tasty!

Bob

Good to know!!! But you just DID confirm my original point though..that SMaSH ain't just for AG'ers and EAC's anymore!

No matter what is blended in the can or bottle. The concept is the same. A consistent base malt extract with a consistent single hop. As long as the ingredients are the same age, and preferably from the same batch, an extract SMaSH experiment would be educational.

Couldn't have said it better myself!!!!!!

 

[TeufelBrew]

Have a Vienna/Columbus SMaSH almost 2 weeks old. Took SG reading last nite, and WOWSERS!!!!!!!!

That's already some damned tasty elixer there! Beautiful pale yellow straw color. Clean simple malty flavor and a great beginning to end hops taste with citrus throughout.

Great concept Orfy and Cheese! Thanks and I'll be doing more of this.

 

[bull8042]

oooooh, do you think he'll let me?????

Only if LG is not currently blocking your view!

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Couldn't have said it better myself!!!!!!

Actually, you could have. Now I come to think on it, If you were using an extract with a mixed malt base, then this method would only be educational regarding hop flavours and/or utilisation. It would teach you nothing about malt.

To do an extract MALT based smash experiment would require a lot of research into the maker's processes, and really wouldn't be worth the trouble.