First cooked mash. Comments please.

[JMO1SON]

Hey guys. Looking to try my first cooked mash this weekend. Gonna use uncle jesse's cooked rye recipe as a guide of sorts. Always been a fan of scotch and want to try and head in that direction. I am a bit of a novice at this as I mostly make neutral. Looking for any advice and or comments on ingriedients that works well for you. I was gonna use a 2 row barley instead of the rye?

[Dnderhead]

Scotch is one of the easier grain mashes ,no real cooking to it as it is made of all barley malt with some smoked or peated if you like.

[JMO1SON]

My buddy and I can barely contain ourselves. Alot of anticipation to this point. cant wait to get some product we actually made on oak.

[Barney Fife]

Irish is even easier than Scotch, as it doesn't involve peat. And you can cheap out like a real Irish distiller and use as much as 50% un-malted barley.

Sipping some two year old right now that likely won't see its third year <lol>.

Best to learn with all-malted barley at first, as it gives you room to fudge the conversion a bit, but once you get a few good conversion under your belt, you can begin to play around, adding adjuncts(IE: other grains, often un-malted) for variety.