The great thing about doing partial mashes over kits, if you muck it up (75 mash is way too high) the result will still be ok.
The kit will provide the bulk of the fermentables, plus bittering.
1.5 kg of grain will add maybe 500-700 gms of fermentables to your brew.
Make sure you took good notes, so next time, you will know how hot to make your strike water.
Mashing too high makes for long chain malt sugars that your yeast cannot consume. 75 is really pushing the boundaries as it is destroying the mash enzymes.
Next time, aim for 65 and try and use 2 kg of grain. I did alot of partials over kits and this amount worked well.
have just ordered 2kg of JWM traditional ale to add to a Coopers Wheat kit instead of the DME. How much water would I need to use for the mini mash with the 2kg of grain?
Mantis, the most common water to grain ratio is 2.5-3:1 so something like 5-6L of water should be about right.
I'd just suggest using some wheat malt for a wheat beer instead of the trad ale to get more of the standard flavours of that kind of beer. The trad ale won't be wrong though if you want to experiment.
I'd keep the ale malt for the sparkling ale. Or use half of it with 1kg of wheat malt for the wheat beer. I'm sure you'll be able to tell the difference when you start using some grain in your brews. :super:
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