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I've been thinking about making something low gravity and malty for my next batch. Kind of along the lines of a Mild or 60/- ale but not limited to trying to dupicate these styles. My question is how much is enough with Biscut or Chocolate Malt? I was think about using about a quarter pound of both as well as a half pound of dark crystal malt. Will this get me about where I want to be? Tenitively my recipe is:
3 lbs Light DME
2 lbs 2 row Barely Malt
.5 lbs Crystal Malt 90L
.25 lbs Chocolate Malt
.25 lbs Biscut Malt
.25 oz Magnum 60 min
.5 Willamette 30 min
I'm expecting farly low % yield from the grains. Also planning to use a clean american yeast because I want the malt to stand above anything else. Any thoughts?

david_42

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I would use a Crystal 40L and maybe only 1/4 lb., the 90L is too dark for a mild. Looks good otherwise.

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ScottT

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Looks good to me. It just really depends how dark you want. This formula will come in at 33 HCU That's going to be pretty dark. More like a porter. I assume you're steeping your grains at around 155 or so and doing a full boil. You should end up with and OG of around 1.036 and 19 IBU.

You can use this free site to verify what you're going to get:

http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator

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