Grist formulation advice

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Digby Swift

Grist formulation advice

Post by Digby Swift » Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:42 pm

I have some leftover malt and am planning a brew to do with it but I need some advice on the use of munich as I have never used it before.

Here are the stocks:
Pale Malt 4378g
diastatic amber (50 ebc) 1036g
Caramalt (30ebc) 212g
Munich (20 ebc) 2kg
Chocolate Malt 400g

I was thinking of something along the lines of all the pale and all the munich. My standard bitter usually has about 2oz of chocolate to give a little bit of depth without tasting too roasty and then probably about 5% of grist as caramalt. Would using the munich mean I should give the caramalt a miss or should I go for both? I would rather use up the munich if its a choice between the amber and the munich as I can use the amber to make another simmonds bitter.

I'll be using wyeast 1968 to ferment this one.
Any suggestions for the grist?
Last edited by Digby Swift on Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: Help with munich

Post by edit1now » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:33 pm

200g of chocolate malt to make a sort of black lager?

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