Critique My Recipe Please

What do you think about this partial mash recipe?

4lbs Pale Malt 2 Row
1lbs CaraPils
0.75lbs Corn Sugar
1lbs Light DME
0.6oz Hallertauer 60min
1.25oz Hallertauer 5min
US-05 Yeast

Primary for 3 weeks and keg it.
1.040 and 9 IBU's

Do you think my MGD drinking father will like this?

Ya, that's about as close as you can get to a low taste homebrew.

I dont see the point in the pound of DME. might as well add two more pounds of 2-row instead.

I'd suggest going with something other than regular US 2-row though. Toss in Vienna malt instead, and ease him into flavor country.

SouthBay said:

I dont see the point in the pound of DME. might as well add two more pounds of 2-row instead.

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I'm fairly new to partial mash so I wasn't sure how many pounds I could comfortably do in my 6 gallon kettle.

You could easily do it AG... and I would ditch the corn sugar...

i think that'll have a bit more body & aroma then he'd like. drop the carapils and tone back the 5min add.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/i-want-brew-budweiser-23302/

I agree on dropping the carapils.

I'm not sure how Vienna malt tastes yet but this last batch that grain bill sure did smell great!

Jayhem said:

I'm not sure how Vienna malt tastes yet but this last batch that grain bill sure did smell great!

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its kind of vienna~y

If you are really going for MGD then switch out the cara-pils for flaked corn and bump the 2-row to 5.5lbs. Axe the DME and cornsugar. Oh, yeah and don't forget to cold filter it

OK, so I made the recipe I posted above with the following change:

-Replaced the 1lb Carapils with 2lbs flaked maize.
-Used 1 cup of corn sugar (don't have a scale to measure 0.75lbs)

Everything else was the same.

Came out exactly the way I was shooting for. Crystal clear, good head, very crisp, clean and refreshing.

I challenged myself to make a light beer that my Miller drinking father would like and I succeeded.

We sat on the patio basking in the sun all afternoon shooting the $hit and drinking my homebrew.

I'll make this one again!

Awesome to hear this came out as planned! Now make the next one just a bit more flavorful and coax him into craft brew taste!