phoenixdigital
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So we are gradually heading towards all grain and were at our local HBS yesterday and went a bit nuts with specialty grains.
1kg of Chocolate Malt
1kg of Roasted Barley
1kg of Carared
1kg of English Brown (I think it says brown on bag)
1kg of Caramalt
2kg of Crystal Malt (20 I think)
There might be 1Kg of something else but I cant remember.
We primarily use the unhopped liquid malt extract from the LHBS which comes in 1kg tubs and do our own hop additions. Yesterday we made the call never to open a tin again.
Now this grain is milled so we obviously have to use it relatively quickly. I have seen people say anywhere from two weeks to 3-4 months (if stored correctly) We plan on putting it into ziplock bags and storing in the freezer.
We would like to use this grain pretty quickly and were messing around with brewmate yesterday making up some recipes with these grains. I am sure we were committing some cardinal sins with our grain combinations and hop additions but we tried to keep within the styles we chose.
So my primary question is can you ever use too much of a specialty grain?
I understand things like the chocolate malt and roasted barley in too large a quantity could cause issues and overwhelm the flavour. But can the same be said of the other grains I have listed like carared, caramalt, english brown and crystal malt?
Is 500g of carared, caramalt, english brown or crystal malt too much too add to a 23 litre batch???
1kg of Chocolate Malt
1kg of Roasted Barley
1kg of Carared
1kg of English Brown (I think it says brown on bag)
1kg of Caramalt
2kg of Crystal Malt (20 I think)
There might be 1Kg of something else but I cant remember.
We primarily use the unhopped liquid malt extract from the LHBS which comes in 1kg tubs and do our own hop additions. Yesterday we made the call never to open a tin again.
Now this grain is milled so we obviously have to use it relatively quickly. I have seen people say anywhere from two weeks to 3-4 months (if stored correctly) We plan on putting it into ziplock bags and storing in the freezer.
We would like to use this grain pretty quickly and were messing around with brewmate yesterday making up some recipes with these grains. I am sure we were committing some cardinal sins with our grain combinations and hop additions but we tried to keep within the styles we chose.
So my primary question is can you ever use too much of a specialty grain?
I understand things like the chocolate malt and roasted barley in too large a quantity could cause issues and overwhelm the flavour. But can the same be said of the other grains I have listed like carared, caramalt, english brown and crystal malt?
Is 500g of carared, caramalt, english brown or crystal malt too much too add to a 23 litre batch???