What do you think of this recipe? comments please guys :)

[stee41]

25 litre batch

Marris Otter 5000g
Cystal 700g
Chocolate 20g
Torrefied wheat 280g

454g Lyles syrup last 30 minutes of boil

50g challenger at 90 mins
25g challenger at flame out

24g Safale so4 yeast

[RichardG]

Interesting. Could I ask what your objective is with this? That is, what type of beer to you want to brew?

[stee41]

Well, I looked at the grains I have left and tried to find a recipe online to suit, came up with 'Briars best' which I like, I wanted a tiny touch of toffee sweetness hence the lyles syrup, chocolate & Crystal to darken and give the recipe a little twist, taking advice looks like I may reduce the Crystal to 500g to reduce the sweetness a little

24g of SO4 yeast starter

will see how it goes but still waiting for fellow brewers input on my grain bill so not 100% sure I will follow this recipe exactly, may be a few little tweeks here and there!

[RichardG]

That's fair enough, a bit of user-upper then! The recipe should work fine as it stands. Agreed that you could reduce the crystal a touch, maybe to 500g, and increase the pale accordingly. It's some 10% of the grist as it stands which for my own taste is a little on the high side. Having said that of course, this is all down to what you like, and I don't see a problem with it per se as it is.