kgg_033
Well-Known Member
Hi everyone! Thans for all the help i have recieved on my prior two threads! I am about to begin formulating another recipe. It will be another partial mash....my 2nd.
I build my recipe based on the lierature "How to Brew" by John Palmer for ingredients, and use an online calculator for all the math and gravities ect. I have the capability to mash about 5-6 lbs of grain.
Now, in his book while referencing certain ingredients, he talks about usage per 5 gallon batch (ie For Chocolate malt he suggests 1/2 for brown ale, and 1 lb for porters and stouts). Pretty straight forward.
However, some grain he lists '% of grain bill' an amount or range which causes some confusion.
For example he suggests Bisuit Malt to be 10% of grain bill; therefore lets say my malts are:
- 3 lb DME (eqivelant of approx 5 lb base malt grain)
- 4.0 lb American 2 Row (mash)
- 1.0 lb Biscuit (mash)
From a flavor standpoint, by Biscuit malt is right on at 10% of the grain bill (converting the DME to an equivelant of basemalt).
Yet from an actual grain standpoint, my Biscuit malt is 20% of the grainbill. So if the grainbill suggestions are also meant for neccessary ratio for proper conversion, I am double the biscuit malt that i should be at. (Oh, and my example is for ease of math....I am not sure off the top of my head if Biscuit malt has any diastatic power to convert on it's own, let's assume it does't. i am not really curious about this specific recipe; rather i would like to know how grain bill in a partial mash affects conversion or if that is a non issue so long as i have SOME base malt in the mash)
Thanks!
I build my recipe based on the lierature "How to Brew" by John Palmer for ingredients, and use an online calculator for all the math and gravities ect. I have the capability to mash about 5-6 lbs of grain.
Now, in his book while referencing certain ingredients, he talks about usage per 5 gallon batch (ie For Chocolate malt he suggests 1/2 for brown ale, and 1 lb for porters and stouts). Pretty straight forward.
However, some grain he lists '% of grain bill' an amount or range which causes some confusion.
For example he suggests Bisuit Malt to be 10% of grain bill; therefore lets say my malts are:
- 3 lb DME (eqivelant of approx 5 lb base malt grain)
- 4.0 lb American 2 Row (mash)
- 1.0 lb Biscuit (mash)
From a flavor standpoint, by Biscuit malt is right on at 10% of the grain bill (converting the DME to an equivelant of basemalt).
Yet from an actual grain standpoint, my Biscuit malt is 20% of the grainbill. So if the grainbill suggestions are also meant for neccessary ratio for proper conversion, I am double the biscuit malt that i should be at. (Oh, and my example is for ease of math....I am not sure off the top of my head if Biscuit malt has any diastatic power to convert on it's own, let's assume it does't. i am not really curious about this specific recipe; rather i would like to know how grain bill in a partial mash affects conversion or if that is a non issue so long as i have SOME base malt in the mash)
Thanks!