Smoked Saison
Hi guys, This my latest brew – a smoked saison using some home smoked malt. I thought I’d do a bit of a write up on the process in case anyone else might be interested in trying to do something similar. I’m a massive fan of smoked beers and recently picked up a bottle of “Hrungnir’s Heart” from the ever excellent masters of smoke; Torrside Brewing. This utilises Birch smoked malt from Gotland in Sweden and was an amazing beer, so I decided to try and brew something similar. I contacted the brewery who were really helpful in giving me a rough idea of how much smoked malt went into the recipe so I could scale it down to homebrew level. I then had a look at getting my hands on some of the Swedish Birch smoked malt but, while the cost of the malt itself was pretty reasonable, the shipping to the UK was horrendous. As a result I thought I may as well have a go at smoking some malt myself. I’ve got a reasonable amount of experience in hot smoking meat but I’ve never really done a...