Whats with the roasted barley?

[MrTwalky]

So I just found this recipe for a Foreign Export Stout online. Now, correct me if I'm wrong but does 3 pounds/1.4kg seem like an awfully large amount of Roasted Barley for a 19L batch?

9 lbs. English pale malt
3 lbs. Roasted barley
.5 lb. Crystal 40L malt
.5 lb. Black patent malt
2 oz. Kent Goldings hops at :60

 

[good4whatAlesU]

30% is very high....

 

[MHB]

23%, at the high end but far from undoable.
You might need to have a look at your pH, think chalk addition.
Mark

 

[droid]

i would have assumed there was a . missing from in front of the 3

 

[good4whatAlesU]

My bad, yes 23% still pretty high. Not impossible though.

30% dark grains though... I'm currently boiling a stout on the stove as we speak. It's 15% dark grains.

 

[Bribie G]

I've used up to a kilo in a FES, doesn't taste as harsh as you might think.

 

[Reman]

27.5% roasted malts in Courage RIS clone. Tastes amazing, it was 18% 500ebc Brown Malt and 9.5% Carafa III.