Brains not grains

[Nicknacknoo]

Hi there,

Looking for advice.
Gonna do a brew this weekend and have the following grains available.

5kg of Maris
500g each of Cara aromatic malt, biscuit malt (50 ebc), and Special B (500 ebc),

If I put all the above in a brew would it be too much.

Cheers in advance for any help

Nick

 

[Simonh82]

Short answer. Yes!

That much special B in particular would give it a very sweet cloying flavour. I think most people would recommend sticking to about 200g max. Also I think the biscuit malt and cara aromatic are both going to give a big toasty malty hit.

I think if you used all of them you would end up with something like a strong sweet porter.

I found 300g of amber malt (similar to the biscuit malt) gave a very toasty biscuity flavour.

Presuming you want something like a strong red/amber ale I'd go with

5KG Maris Otter
200g Special B
300g Biscuit
200g Cara Aromatic

This would still be a sweetish, full-on malty beer. The Cara Aromatic may not be necessary at all.

 

[Simonh82]

Acutally, I've looked up the Cara Aroma malt which I wasn't that familiar with. It is darker than I thought and looking at Weyermann's description it sounds like another dark crystal malt. It is going in the same direction flavourwise as the Special B so I really wouldn't put the two of them in the same beer unless I was cutting back on the Special B to replace it with some of the Cara Aroma.

 

[Nicknacknoo]

great cheers for the info. ill put half the special b and half the biscuit malt and keep the cara for another time.

Thanks Nick

 

[Gerryjo]

Hi,I recently bought 2.5kg each of Best Cara Amber Malt Crushed (BESTMALZ) 70 EBC and

Chateau Cara Ruby 50 EBC.
I have 15kg of Minch pale ale malt and a variety of hops for experimenting with.The hops are as follows
First Gold 100g Alpha Acid 6.7%


Glacier Leaf Hops 100g Alpha Acid 7.2%


Junga Leaf Hops 100g Alpha Acid 11.1%


MILLENNIUM Leaf Hops 100g Alpha Acid 17.1%


Bullion Leaf Hops 100g Alpha Acid 7.2%
I have been BIAB with a 15 litre pot and have made a few brew's using the pale malt grains and I'm wondering if anyone has any of the above or could point me in the direction of a decent brew.Any info would be great.

Cheers Gerry


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