Hey, I'm getting close to the end of a fermentation of a beer that has a lot of crystal/dark malts, and I'm surprised that it looks like I'll get 73% attenuation. The recipe, which was based on information from a brewery on their porter, was said to include ~69% 2-row, 13% carapils (!), 7% dark chocolate (Briess 420L crystal), and then the rest was C80, Victory, Extra Special (Briess's Special B), and a bit of black barley. I used .5 pounds for C80 and Victory, .25 for Extra Special, and .125 pounds for the black barley. It looks like I'll get down to ~1.015 from 1.056! I'm a bit surprised, even though the brewer said the carapils wasn't a typo.
Anyways, I'm curious, what kind of surprising attenuation levels have you folks achieved with crystal/dark malt heavy grain bills?
Anyways, I'm curious, what kind of surprising attenuation levels have you folks achieved with crystal/dark malt heavy grain bills?
