Your best SMASH combos?

Beer Recipes
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What are some of your fave SMASH combos? I have done:

Vienna/Saaz with WY1007
Golden Promise/Chinook with WY 1272
Pale 2 Row/Cacade with WY 1056
Marris Otter/EKG With Nottingham

and all were excellent! Looking to do another but split the wort into four 1 gallon fermenters and use different yeast in each.  Would love suggestions!

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Rahr North Star pils/Hallertauer Mitt/Diamond lager

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Excellent suggestion! Thank you!

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Viking Extra Pale Malt, Magnum and Diamond lager yeast.  Pretty close to Denny’s and I have used Hallertauer Mittelfruh, both solo and with the Magnum as a late hop addition…but combining them isn’t Smash-ing it.  Cheers.

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Pils Hallertau blanc s189

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Viking pils/flash frozen"fresh" Crystal hops/OYL114 Bayern Lager

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I have a plan to brew a Golden Promise, 2021 harvest Loral, Nottingham SMaSH Monday.  I need a quick turn beer to fill an empty keg.

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Golden Promise/Willamette/WY1450

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Vienna/Cascade/Am ale

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If I may ask, where did you get your frozen hops from ?

Thanks

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Riverbend Southern Select/Styrian Celeia/WY1762

US malt, Czech hops, Belgian yeast - best English-style beer I’ve brewed in ages

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I got them for free, I think they partnered with the AHA or something for a giveaway. Not a lot of varieties available, but it turned out well enough I’ll probably do it again.

https://bluelakehops.com/

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Yakima Chief sells flash frozen fresh hops

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Doesn’t look like you can order them right now. The link goes to a closed form.

https://www.yakimachief.com/commercial/hop-wire/frozen-fresh-hops

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I visited their booth at Homebrew Con in June.  They had two year old samples that smelled as fresh as new.

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So this may sound like a strange combo, but I’ve just brewed an incredible SMASH:
Malt: Maris Otter
Hops: Wakatu

I had to fiddle with it, as I didn’t have a chiller at my disposal that day  ::slight_smile:

For 8 litres of wort :

  • 2.5Kg of Maris Otter malt
  • 300g of oats (I wanted a creaminess, but it’s optional)
  • 10g of Wakatu at 30min.
  • 60g of Wakatu off-flame, I let it steep for 20 minutes then remove it.
  • 32G at D+5
  • 32g at D+20

The lemony taste of the Wakatu combined with the smooth, honeyed texture of the Maris Otter malt and oats was amazing, I got great feedback on this brew :slight_smile:

EDIT: Sorry I used the “grams” unit by reflex, I am French, I could convert if needed :slight_smile:

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I recently brewed a German Pils that was BestMalz Pilsner, lots of Tettnang, and S23 yeast. It was delicious.

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This is probably boring by modern standards, but one of the best things I’ve made recently was a simple pale ale with a single late addition of Willamette.

Just good “beer-flavored” beer.