Adding beer to a neutral to make scotch?

[Ubphu]

Hi Guys,

This may sound silly but I have been thinking about this for a while. I'm rather cheap and like the idea of using sugar washes but like to drink scotch. I have a boka reflux still and have been making good neutrals for a while now but after a while its get a little boring. I have 2 25 litre oak kegs that I use to age my neutral one with just vodka (no head or tails) and one no flavoured with a little heads and tails. I have 3 Air still that I use to do my stripping runs and when I have 40 litres of low wines I will do a slow and clean spirit run. My question if I add beer, i.e home brewed without the hops, to my neutral and age it in my oak barrel will it resemble something that was made with malt washes? I have sampled some aged neutral spirit with beer added to it and it did taste pretty good.

Another approach I have used in the past is adding a single pot distilled beer wash to the kegs and think that will work but it seems that adding beer = will add more flavour without having to do too malt washes.

any thoughts would be appreciated.

[Prairiepiss]

If you want scotch. Just make some scotch.