I ended up salvaging two brews out of this by adding small amounts of this grain to the the appropriate amounts of base malt.
Hopped them slightly differently and fermented with different yeasts. Both were tasting okay going into the bottle.
I tried one of the first batch last night... I think...
Don't know if it's the same method as Dan2 but this is the one I use with great success.
http://seancoates.com/blogs/berliner-weisse
I also go for the full sour mash and don't bother with the CO2
Ah, of course, it is basically the same as no chill. I was thinking of taking it to post-mash, not post-boil.
The only other issue I can think of there is that with such a low % of base malt there would be a deficiency of diastatic enzymes so could end up with a lot of unfermentables. Would a...
And to confuse the issue I made the same error with 3 of the 4 grain types and ordered a second bag at the same time with no errors. I can see why they assumed I knew what I was doing.
Hey Scottsrx,
A good idea, but wrangling 35kg of grain without a car might be a bit of a challenge. And I'm probably too lazy to arrange postage.
At this point I'm thinking I might just order 2 bags of 3.45kg Ale malt to give me two batches that I can add 1.2kg lots of the current mix to get...
Thanks to some foolish decimal point misplacement I've ended up with large sack of cracked grain that I'm not sure what to do with.
I was planning on brewing a scaled down version of the 62 Black IPA, but instead of ordering 3.8kg JW Ale Malt and .270kg each of Caraamber,Munich and Chocolate...
Haven't tried the IPA but their lager pops up in a few venues around Melbourne. A bit of a nothing beer really.Okay if the alternatives are your standard macro lagers.
They were bought by Independent Distillers (Asahi) last year. As far as I can tell it was a "craft" brand that was built up...