Microphobik
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I'm looking to start doing a lot of Partigyle's on my brew day, in which I form recipes around the small beer, rather than just making big beers and taking what I get as a second beer. So in other words, I would scale up an English bitter to make a nice barleywine with the first runnings instead of HOPING to make a nice bitter out of the second runnings from my barleywine... If that makes sense.
My question is, how do I scale up the specialty malts? Or do I at all?
For example, lets say I was trying to make a bitter like "no short measure" from "Brewing Classic Styles". That recipe calls for 89.1% English Pale, 7.3% Crystal 120, and 3.6 percent special roast...
To make a first runnings Barleywine based on that, would I just scale up the base malt until I hit my target OG for the barleywine, or would I also need to scale up the specialty malts?
I know with an Imperial you would normally just scale up the base malt, but a partigyle is obviously different and I'm not sure how much of the flavor contribution of the specialty malt will be reduced if I just scale up the base malt. I'm a little lost on this one.
Anyone have any experience here? What would you do?
My question is, how do I scale up the specialty malts? Or do I at all?
For example, lets say I was trying to make a bitter like "no short measure" from "Brewing Classic Styles". That recipe calls for 89.1% English Pale, 7.3% Crystal 120, and 3.6 percent special roast...
To make a first runnings Barleywine based on that, would I just scale up the base malt until I hit my target OG for the barleywine, or would I also need to scale up the specialty malts?
I know with an Imperial you would normally just scale up the base malt, but a partigyle is obviously different and I'm not sure how much of the flavor contribution of the specialty malt will be reduced if I just scale up the base malt. I'm a little lost on this one.
Anyone have any experience here? What would you do?