barely
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I'm still a bit new to brewing. In order to teach myself about the various specialty malts I have added a pound of specialty malt to a very basic extract recipe:
full 5 gallon boil
Fermentables:
6 lb light LME
1 lb specialty grain
1/2 lb crystal 60
Hops:
60 min 1 oz high AA ~12% pellet
20 min 1 oz Glacier AA~5% pellet
5 min 1 oz Glacier pellet
So far, It has yielded a very nice beer using malted rye, victory malt, whatever for the specialty grain. I've learned a lot about the flavors...The thing is I just got a pound of peated malt. I tasted it. Holy SMOKES! I'm thinking that if I want to try it in a drinkable beer, I will need to adjust the base recipe to a full pound Crystal for more backbone and cut back on the hops so as not to compete...and use only 1/4 lb peated malt.
So would the following give me a good representation of peated malt without making an undrinkable beer?
Fermentables:
6 lb light LME
1/4 lb peated malt
1lb crystal 60
Hops:
60 min 1/2 oz high AA ~ 12%
20 min 1/2 oz Glacier AA~5%
full 5 gallon boil
Fermentables:
6 lb light LME
1 lb specialty grain
1/2 lb crystal 60
Hops:
60 min 1 oz high AA ~12% pellet
20 min 1 oz Glacier AA~5% pellet
5 min 1 oz Glacier pellet
So far, It has yielded a very nice beer using malted rye, victory malt, whatever for the specialty grain. I've learned a lot about the flavors...The thing is I just got a pound of peated malt. I tasted it. Holy SMOKES! I'm thinking that if I want to try it in a drinkable beer, I will need to adjust the base recipe to a full pound Crystal for more backbone and cut back on the hops so as not to compete...and use only 1/4 lb peated malt.
So would the following give me a good representation of peated malt without making an undrinkable beer?
Fermentables:
6 lb light LME
1/4 lb peated malt
1lb crystal 60
Hops:
60 min 1/2 oz high AA ~ 12%
20 min 1/2 oz Glacier AA~5%