With Labor day weekend still looking gloomy I decided to get my smoker up and going on Sunday and smoke 7.5 pound of vienna malt with some hickory smoke. So hickory might not be the best wood to use, but I thought it would be better than mesquite. I didn't have access to beechwood and I was to lazy to get to the store and find apple/cherry. Plus, this is an experimental beer!
Labor day was brew day, and I supplemented the smoked malt with 3 pounds of munich malt. For beer geeks: mashed at 122 30 minutes, raised to 152 for 60 minutes. mash out at 170. Boiled: 0.5 oz spalt (4.1 %) and 0.5 oz halertau (6.2%) 60 min, and 0.75 oz Halertau 15 min. Pitched Wyeast 2206 (bavarian lager) and fermented at 50 degrees.
The OG was 1.054 - right on target. I didn't think there was a significant sense of smokiness, but Alison assured me there was, and it would really stand out once the sugars go away. I hope she's right ... time will tell. It will take a little while to ferment...
Trip reports
Washington 
- Mt Baker (Easton Glacier; Jul 2004)
- The Brothers
- Chair Peak
- NE Buttress (Jan 2007)
- SE Gully (Feb 2006)
- NE Buttress (Jan 2007)
- Challenger/Luna cirque traverse (Jul 2007)
- Hannegan peak
- Easy peak
- Mt Challenger
- Luna peak
- Cloudy peak
- Colchuck peak (ski, May 2008)
- Columbia peak (July 2010)
- Copper Mtn (Aug 2007)
- Crystal lake basin traverse (ski; May 2008)
- Silver King
- Crystal peak
- Unnamed rocky prominence
- Chinook peak
- Mt. Dickerman
- Eldorado Mtn
- Eldorado glacier (Jul 2004)
- Isolation Traverse (Aug 2008)
- The Enchantments
- Enchantment Peak (Jul 2004)
- Little Anapurna (Jul 2004, Oct 2005)
- Esmeralda Pk (Sep 2004, Jun 2011)
- Granite Mtn (ski; Jan 2009)
- Hidden Lake Peak (ski; Jun 2009)
- Ingalls Peak (south; ski; Jun 2009)
- Isolation Traverse (Aug 2008)
- Colonial Peak
- Pyramid Peak
- Paul Bunyan's Stump
- Snowfield Peak
- The Coccyx
- Early Morning Spire
- Eldorado Mtn
- Kaleetan Pk (Ski; Feb 2009)
- Kendall Pk (Ski; Feb 2008)
- Kyes Pk (Jun 2009)
- Lichtenberg Mountain (ski, Jan 2010)
- Mt Maude (Sep 2009)
- McClellan Butte (Ski attempt; Mar 2008)
- Ptarmigan Traverse (Aug 2006)
- Magic Mtn
- Dome peak
- Magic Mtn
- Mt Pugh (Jul 2010)
- Mt Rainier (Ingraham direct; Jun 2007)
- Red Mtn (Ski; Jan 2009)
- Mt Redoubt (Aug 2009)
- Mt Roosevelt (Mar 2011)
- Sahali Mtn (Aug 2004)
- Silver Star (Jul 2011)
- Mt St Helens (May 2007)
- Mt Shuksan
- Sulphide glacier (Sept 2008)
- White Salmon glacier (May 2009; ski)
- Sloan Pk (Corkscrew; Jul 2009)
- Snoqualmie Pk
- Cave Ridge (Jun 2007)
- Phantom Falls (ski; Feb 2008)
- Slot Couloir (ski; Mar 2009)
- Mt Spickard (Aug 2009)
- Spider Gap / Buck creak pass (Sep 2006)
- Cloudy peak
- Mt Stuart (Sept 2008)
- The Tooth (June 2005)
- Mt Triumph (Aug 2010)
- Vesper N Face (Sep 2007)
- White Chuck Mtn (Aug 2010)
- Wright Mtn (Ski; Apr 2008)
- Mt Shasta (Apr 2009)
- John Muir Trail (Aug 2009)
- Mt Agassiz
- Gregory's Monument
- Mt Whitney
- Mt Meeker (Jun 2007)
- Grays and Torreys (Aug 2007)
- Cirque of the Towers (wind river range; July, 2008)
- Mt. Kilimanjaro (Jul 2006)
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