Your starter will take a few days to "start". But your wort will be fine sitting in fermenter with no yeast for a few days until the starter is ready if you "have" to brew tommorrow.
I would try to keep my grainaround 4lbs since this is your 1st partial mash try. Just get lower your two row and up your DME until you get the correct numbers. I would also use two really big grain bags to let the grain spread out in our pot.
I"ll try to make this easy for you...
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I would think that NOT using the specialty grains would make this not the beer that it is. Here it is with Specialties only and DME.
8.0 lb Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 68.1%
1.25 lb Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain 8.62 %
1.00 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 6.90 %
0.75 lb...
So I subscribed to anothe one. An important one I'll say!:mug:
Been brewing for 3-4 years now. Took some time off here and there, been getting some funky flavors the last couples batches (kinda detering). But got a sweet cream stout a day or two away from bottling so things are loking up...