Carafa alternative
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As I recall (and excepting the dehusked varieties) they are basically the German versions of chocolate, roasted barley, and black patent. Or something like that. Substitutions should abound.
As I recall (and excepting the dehusked varieties) they are basically the German versions of chocolate, roasted barley, and black patent. Or something like that. Substitutions should abound.
Baron von BeeGee said:
Excellent question and I have no idea
. I didn't know there were three types. The two recipes thus far called for carafa with an srm of 400 so I'd assume in this case switch with the same oz's of black patent then?
Yeah, carafa is malted so you can match a roasted malted grain's SRM rating to get the same affect. Roasted barley isn't malted though and will give you a different flavor than carafa.
