Looking for some advice RE recipe for an unintended mix of grain.

[wackojacko]

Hi guys, I'm relatively new to AG brewing and as the title says, I need some advice. I recently got a grain order in which there was a mix up. My 2kg of milled wheat malt ended up being mixed in with 100 grams of chocolate malt and 100 grams of caramunich 2. Do you know of any good recipes that incorporate such a mix? I dont want it to go to waste, but i'm also not keen to brew a frankenstein.

Cheers in advanced,
Jacko.

 

[klangers]

Do you have any other grain on hand?

What were you originally intending to brew?

 

[manticle]

Dunkelweizen

 

[wackojacko]

Originally, had two brews in mind. One was a pacific ale clone with 60/40 ale malt/ wheat malt. The other was an amber ale.
I've got about 10kg of ale malt lying around.

I was thinking of doing this using some of the stuff i have lying around:
3kg ale malt
2kg wheat malt
0.1 kg chocolate
0.1 kg caramunich 2
Yeast - ? S 05 ?

Hops:
10g amarillo 60 minutes
10g amarillo 30 minutes
20g amarillo 10 minutes
20g amarillo flame out.

Would that be an undrinkable mess, or could it be ok?

 

[klangers]

Sounds delicious. The specialties will add more body and colour as well as flavour complexity.

Alternatively try out a weizen as Manticle suggested, however, these are probably a bit trickier to get right.

 

[wackojacko]

Thanks for all the advice! Yeah simple is better at this point.

 

[manticle]

Weizens aren't tricky. Need the right yeast though.

 

[Mr. No-Tip]

Weizens aren't tricky. Need the right yeast though.

They are made better by "tricky" (see: simple) temperature ramps in both mash and fermentation, but can be quite decent and not at all tricky with neither.

 

[manticle]

I agree. If pushed, I'd suggest step mashing and controlling fermentation profile are equally untricky and as for decoction? Doddle.
People could surprise themselves if they liked.