Recipe Tweaking - how to???

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mbosco

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Hi All,

I'm looking at tweaking a recipe I currently have. I want to brew the recipe (5 gallons of stout), but want to bring down the alcohol in the original by just a bit. If the original recipe has three grains (i.e. 80% base, 15% specialty #1, 5% speciatly #2), is it as simple as reducing the overall amount, but keeping the percentages lined up?

Hoping this makes sense, thanks!
 
Your other option is to just drop the base malt until you're at your target gravity/abv. Neither option is wrong, but they'll give you slightly different results. Just remember to lower the hops too. Or you could leave all the ingredients the same, and just add water.
 
If you're reducing "just a little bit" for simplicity I would just drop the basemalt. If you're really shaving off gravity points I'd reduce as a percentage and maybe add less hops.
 
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