"Single Malt" Series beers?

"Single hop" series beers tend to be IPAs. What style of beer do you think would be best for a "single malt" series?

 

SMaSH beers! Single Malt and Single Hop

 

Mild ale? They can be anywhere from golden amber to brown, from what I understand.

 

I think J.W. Lees Vintage Harvest Ale uses one malt. Although I could be wrong.

 

How about a Pilsner or Helles? the malt should be left pale I think.

 

Malt Liquor?

 

Yes!

 

Being usually more malty, I think american reds or red IPAs would be a good style for an experiment like that.

 

"Anyone know of any breweries doing this?" No. "Anyone else think this would be an interesting thing to try?" Yes.

A single malt "Märzen" with a very low IBU (International Bittering Units) would be something that I would seek out. How shelf stable the low IBU brew would be, I couldn't say, but could be off set by a higher ABV (Alcohol By Volume) in theory. Also, I'm a Reinheitsgebot (German Beer Purity Law) believer, (current or not) so no cheating with other fermentable saccharides (adjuncts).

 

Most of the world's brewing barley (including a lot of that used by "craft" breweries is adequate but not outstanding enough to be showcased.
A lot of beer here is from either Maris Otter or Golden Promise malts , great products but of severely limited production.


One of our local beers is Elsie Mo , the name is taken from "Low Colour Maris Otter" or LCMO.

 

That's what I was thinking. There isn't huge flavor in these styles and I don't see a need for anything other than the sweet pilsner malt.

 

I'm no brewer, but it seems to me that you would want to use fairly low-key hops and yeast to highlight the grain. A hefe yeast seems like it would be too powerful, and ya wouldn't want to dose it with a bunch of big hops.

 

Cismontane did this but altered styles according to what actually fit the different kinds of malts...

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22598/?view=beers&show=arc

 

Founders Mosaic Promise last year was a SMaSH beer of Mosaic hops and Golden Promise malt. Prairie 'Merica is Pilsner and Nelson Sauvin. Helles, Kolsch, and American Blonde ales are generally only Pilsner malt.

Yes it is. JW Lees is single malt and hop as well. Maris Otter and East Kent goldings. Boiled for 3 hours to get the color.

 

a lightly hopped golden ale would be best, or helles, albeit with ale malts as well as lager malts.

Might be best to do a series of them, golden ale/helles, single hop IPA and a single hop barley wine say

Then use a bunch of different malts, but same yeasts and hops


I'm sure some beers would not be the best, but as an experiment to showcase the different base malts it would be a good one


Of course not only are there a lot of different types of barley (off the top of my head I can think of Marris Otter, Halcyon, Propino, Tipple, Golden Promise, Optic, Concerto, Casata, Pearl, Flagon - and these are just some of the british barleys) But then each maltster has slightly different techniques and sources, so you end up with different malts even if they are the same variety

The process of malting would have a greater effect than the type of barley imo

 

Southern tier does single malts with their 2XONE single hops series and they did single malts with thier C-ration case of single hops w/single malt.

 

I haven't seen any in a while, but Carton Brewing at least used to do a single malt series called their "School of..." series.

 

Barleys do differ and in general Maris Otter and Golden Promise stand out well above the rest for ale brewing.Like every other crop, local conditions are important , you can't just plant it anywhere and expect good results.
Our local brewer uses nothing but Thos Fawcett's Maris Otter he wouldn't use "anything else even if it was only half the price"
There are many esteemed maltsters who seem to add that little bit extra.