I'm slightly modifying a brown ale recipe from Mosher's "Radical Brewing", and I thought I had the grain bill right, but I ran it through an efficiency calculator and it came up with an OG of 1.069 (at 100% efficiency; it drops to 1.06 at 75% efficiency), way higher than the BJCP style guideline of 1.033 1.042 for a Southern English Brown, which is probably closest.
I'm wondering a couple of things:
Here's the grain bill for anyone interested:
I'm wondering a couple of things:
- Is this ridiculously high (it's off-style and I'm OK with that)?
- Are 2 oz. of hops going to be enough (1 oz full-boil and 1 oz with something like 20 min)?
Here's the grain bill for anyone interested:
- 4 lbs. amber DME
- 1 lb Belgian Special B (for raisin notes)
- 2 lbs Belgian biscuit malt
- 1 lb 60L crystal
- 1 lb toasted flaked oats