Or, you could reduce the crystal and compensate with more pale malt to make a paler summer beer that might appeal to the lager boys a bit more. 250g crystal will make for a dark amber-reddish brew - unless it's a light grade of crystal. Other than that optional variation, the recipe is goooood.
I'm thirsty already 
Actually that won't mean much to party goers so it will have to be Chris's Pop.
don't know why but that's 90% ish. Don't usually check the mash efficiency so will see what the brewhouse is, as I don't sparge the hops will be some loss there.Yep, that was what I used with my other setup but getting consistent results is what matters, I could obviously reduce the grain and carry on using 78% but as SteveD points out there may be more quality gains to be had by reducing the efficiencyDaaB wrote:Are you looking for an overall efficiency of 70% or so then Scooby?
but reckon it's best done in practice.I may just try that DaaB, I've seen plenty of discussion on it but not taken that much notice of the volumes, temp etc so will do a searchDaaB wrote:If you are looking for consistency and a higher quality brew you might want to have a go at batch sparging for comparison. It does require a little forward planning but once you know what results you system is producing then you should be able to hit your targets every time. It doesn't suffer from the potential problems that can occur with fly sparging ie rising ph and grain bed temperature. Some say that is is the next best method quality wise to no sparge brewing. I have to say it's nice not to worry about the gravity of the final runnings and it's nice to know exactly what you will end up with.
