nitrogen in grain?

[IPA Dude]

Does anyone know anything about nitogen content in grains?

the reason I enquiry is the my mate works for Taylors and contrary to G Wheelers recipe on Landlord which he says to use maris otter pale malt, taylors use golden promise. The brewer at taylors says that it is a difficult malt to brew with due to high nitogen in the grain

Does higher nitrogen in the mean lower efficiency?

[seymour]

Well then, here's your holy grail: Graham Wheeler himself discussing the importance of step-mashing with high-nitrogen malts, right here on our forum.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=53929&hilit=graham+nitrogen#p567736

[IPA Dude]

Superb Seymour!

Many thanks

[Andy]

Reviving this thread as my last two brews have used Golden Promise as the base malt. I've noticed that there's loads more hot break material produced and it's a constant battle to fight the boilover when I'm on full power (with Maris Otter I can have both my elements on full tilt). Also, there's lots of break material in the FV's, much more than I get with Maris.

Beer seems to taste fine though

[6470zzy]

Does anyone know anything about nitogen content in grains?

the reason I enquiry is the my mate works for Taylors and contrary to G Wheelers recipe on Landlord which he says to use maris otter pale malt, taylors use golden promise. The brewer at taylors says that it is a difficult malt to brew with due to high nitogen in the grain

Does higher nitrogen in the mean lower efficiency?

The nitrogen content in Golden Promise is very similar to that of Marris Otter
http://www.murphyandson.co.uk/BrewingAr ... tSpecs.htm

[leedsbrew]

I've just got to the bottom of a sack of GP and have noticed very little difference in its performance compared to the usual MO

[Andy]

Well the GP I've used recently behaves differently to the MO I've used. They're from different malsters though so the variety isn't the only variable (MO = Warminster, GP = Fawcetts)