I'm planning on brewing a Beamish Stout clone (BYO) tomorrow and received the grains a few days ago. I built the recipe on BeerSmith 1.4 and didn't notice a problem till I upgraded.
Thanks to the nice visual style indicators in 2.0 I noticed that the recipe colour was strangely high, even for a stout. So I went looking for the reason and found I ordered 330g of black patent malt rather than 45g!
All the grains are crushed in a bag. Short of going through and sifting the black malt by hand, anyone got any ideas to fix it? Will a higher mash temp and few IBUs less compensate or do I really need to get rid of the extras?
If I do need to sift, how do I tell black patent apart from roasted barley?
Thanks to the nice visual style indicators in 2.0 I noticed that the recipe colour was strangely high, even for a stout. So I went looking for the reason and found I ordered 330g of black patent malt rather than 45g!
All the grains are crushed in a bag. Short of going through and sifting the black malt by hand, anyone got any ideas to fix it? Will a higher mash temp and few IBUs less compensate or do I really need to get rid of the extras?
If I do need to sift, how do I tell black patent apart from roasted barley?