Spelt Beer

[WishboneBrewery]

I went for 70% and got 77% So happy

[MAF]

Have this one mashing right now, having a split brewday with boil tomorrow evening.

Fuggled Mind mentioned in the Ingredients forum that spelt is known as dinkel in Germany, and after a bit of research it turns out my recipe is more like a dinkelbier than anything else - totally unintentional! German malt, German hops and German yeast!

[Spud395]

Thought some might be interested, MAF entered this into the Trouble brewing homebrewing contest and won.

Now Trouble are a brewery over here and for the last 2 years have run this comp with the winner getting to brew a full length batch on their kit.
This is then casked and kegged for the summer festivals and as a special in some pubs.

It's going down a treat all round

[MAF]

Wan't this spelt beer that won the comp, Spud. The one in this thread was the one I dubbed 'dinkelbier' - think you either got a bottle or tasted it a meet (or both!). It used pils/spelt malt and kolsch yeast with Hallertau Mittelfruh and a dash of Cascade for dry hop.
The competition beer was a Spelt Saison, which had pils malt and flaked spelt.
For those that are interested, the flaked spelt works great - without the need for a cereal mash, or even stepped mash. I used a single infusion (on the home brewed and brewery scale versions) and it worked out fine.

[Spud395]

Sorry for getting the spelts mixed up Mark, good beer anyhow

[MAF]

I thought the dinkelbier was made with rye? Both were very nice which yeast did you use for the saison? I know I should have asked before but usually something else crops up and I forget

No, no rye in the dinkelbier, just spelt malt and pils malt. The bottle version of the saison used Wyeast 3724 and White Labs WLP550. The upscaled version used White Labs WLP565 (which is the same as Wyeast 3724) and WLP550. So essentially the saison is a combination of Saison Dupont and Achouffe yeasts Think I should do another batch of that for the summer