User upper thoughts?

[ChrisD123]

a user upper

MO - 4kg
Smoked Malt - 500g
Amber - 300g
chocolate malt - 150g
light crystal - 110g
melanoidin - 100g
roast barley 100g

Hops..have a lot to choose from but was thinking bittering with Northern brewer to 30 ibu then saaz at 10min and 5 min additions.

any thoughts?

 

[An Ankoù]

The smoked malt us the game changer here. I wouldn't use it.
You could almost throw everything else together to make a nice dark beer. Or you could just go with adding the amber to the base malt OR go with adding just the crystal and some challenger/EKGs to make something like Summer Lightning OR just add the melanoidin and your hopping schedule, above with a pseudo lager yeast.
Loads of ideas, but avoid the smoked malt.

 

[ChrisD123]

thank you..was swithering over that tbh...will scrub it.