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If I go all barley
10# 2 row
4 # crystal 60L
3 # victory malt
1# honey gambrinus
Will this be considered a single malt or just a plain whiskey?
Yes im a novice still have my t500 and digi boil but upgrading soon what yall think

Yes it is all barley and will be a 10 gallon batch other than that that what do all ya think

It depends how far you wish to adhere to the official rule book. To call a whisky single malt it must be:
- from one distillery
- batch distilled (pot still)
- aged for a minimum of three years on oak
- only malted barley

You can still blend multiple batches from a single distillery and call it a single malt.
If some of your barley is unmalted, it would be a single grain

If you want to split hairs (Maybe I enjoy doing that ) then I don't believe that single malt needs to be pot stilled. Single malt SCOTCH whiskey does I think.

In the EU the regulations state:

"The legal name of ‘whisky’ or ‘whiskey’ may be supplemented by the term ‘single malt’ only if it has been distilled exclusively from malted barley at a single distillery."

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content ... 7-20220815

Not sure about the definitions in US or elsewhere.

Thanks guys I'm gonna mash in next weekend gonna call it bees knees

That is all malt. However, with 4 of 18 pounds being crystal, you will have A LOT of unfermentable sugars in the ferment. Based on your question and post count, I'm going to just say that if this is your first go at an all malt mash, you might consider going to the tried and true and checking out Jimbo's procedure in his well documented recipe.

I'll poke my nose in for un-asked for opinion: malted barley + unmalted barley = a very tasty Irish style whiskey.

STRONGLY recommend a malted barley "bred" for taste vs DP, like Golden Promise. For the UK/AUS folks it has a biscuit background smell/taste; for the N. American folks a shortbread cookie equivalent. I actually toss in corn meal & oats to the grain bill for a hint of sweetness/mouthfeel!

I can't remember where, but I remember reading here on HD for those "specialty" malts, not to exceed 10-20% of grain bill. Not only for the unfermentable issues, but that they come through overpowering everything else. Distilling is not like beer making when it comes to end-product results.

rubberduck71 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:11 pm Golden Promise. For the UK/AUS folk

Most anyone who's been around distilling or beer making in Au will be quite familiar with golden promise. It's easily available here.

Bilgris you are correct I have been doing hbb and crow almost exclusively for a bit
Some of my earlier experiments were ok but nothing to toot my horn about
And blan on using sebstar htl and gluco

Thank you for recipe Calc link gonna rethink this check out golden promise