Unmashed

[FlourPower]

Sorry if this has been asked before or is blindingly obvious. Is there a list anywhere that lists Malts/Grains that do not require mashing?

[J_P]

As a rule of thumb I'd say Crystal malt and anything darker, I'm not sure about stuff like caramalt, munich / vienna or melanoidin though.

You will definately need to mash pale malt, wheat malt, torrified wheat and flaked maize.

What you got planned?

[mysterio]

I love your signature JP

[J_P]

I love your signature JP

Cheers - I created the jpeg primarily to wind up the militant anti sparkler brigade in the beer blog community then I found out it made a good signature too!

[FlourPower]

As a rule of thumb I'd say Crystal malt and anything darker, I'm not sure about stuff like caramalt, munich / vienna or melanoidin though.

You will definately need to mash pale malt, wheat malt, torrified wheat and flaked maize.

What you got planned?

Not much at the moment. Was just wondering from the angle of creating extract brews using ag recipes.

[boingy]

...the militant anti sparkler brigade...

We should think ourselves lucky that there is not a militant pro-sparkler brigade otherwise we could find ourselves in the midsts of sparkler wars. Politicians would condemn the senseless violence and the police would have to hold occasional sparkler amnesties.

[FlourPower]

Thanks Chris,

I have a related question. Is the peat smoked malt on hop and grape likely to be good for steeping?

After the beer kit enhancing thread my idea now is a smoked porter made using some cheapy kits and steep some smoked grain. Just wondering if it's possible and what %age of my grain bill should be smoked so as not to overpower. Was thinking about 8%.

[Invalid Stout]

I think that smoked malt generally requires mashing. I haven't used the peat smoked whisky malt but I wouldn't imagine it's any different from the German smoked malt in that respect (I hear the flavour and aroma is quite a bit stronger though). They are just ordinary pale malts, except that they have been dried over smoke.

Have you thought about liquid smoke? Or drop a kipper in the FV

[FlourPower]

Try my new Kipper Porter, better than an oyster stout!

It was what I feared, may look at liquid smoke then. Suppose I could knock something up to mash a pound of grain though and see if that will work. Make a bain marie type thing in the slow cooker to keep a tub of it at warmth or something. Lol.