Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

A local malt house gave me a five pounds of chocolate malted barley. We mashed it with flaked corn, cracked corn, toasted oats and pale malt. Fermented at 85* F on grain. Strained out the grain and did a steam stripping run.

After the spirit run the chocolate flavor comes through. Still need to age / finish this but the white dog has really good flavours. Has made me curious to look into different malts. I have some pale malt left so I might do some experiments by roasting it to see how it impacts end flavour

Anyone else doing any roasted barley mash?

I have, but I think I may have overdone it with the roasted malt. I used some of my home malted barley which I roasted for about 2 hours at 200C. I can't remember the exact mashbill, but it was at least 25% roasted. If I was to do it again I would drop it back to less than 10%.

From my experience less is more with roasted malts. I don't usually go over 15% on the last ones I've done but even then it can need quite a bit of time aging to get the flavours to mellow/come together

Made cuts tonight. There is a little over a gallon on my Marsala infused oak spirals. 110 proof. It’s a little low for aging but the flavour was real good down to 90 proof so it went in until the proof was a little low. Time will tell how it turns out.

As it is it is good enough to drink but I want some oak and Marsala to come through. A piece of vanilla bean was in with the oak spirals as well.

24 hours later. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Looking and tasting good.

This is done. Took out the oak tonight. Now it can sit…. For a while.

Colour and flavour are great. I don’t have much vocabulary for whisky descriptions but there is oak, sherry / Marsala, chocolate, vanilla.

I’m happy enough with this that it will get repeated.

Experiment is always a success if at the end of it you get to say , that’s nice and I am going to do it again :)

Wellsy wrote:Experiment is always a success if at the end of it you get to say , that’s nice and I am going to do it again :)

This recipe is definitely a keeper! Will be looking for more chocolate malt barley to make more! I took a lot of notes and will be able to repeat the process.