So there goes my first attempt at a recipe...

[EarlyBirdBrew]

So my first attempt at creating my own recipe went horribly awry. I had planned on doing a mild that looked like this:

3lbs Pale LME
1LB Marris Otter
12oz Crystal 60-L
4oz Pale Chocolate Malt
4oz Cara-Pils
4oz Coffee Malt
4oz Biscuit Malt

Mini Mash this and put in .75oz Kent Goldings hops at the start of the boil.

After getting home from the LHBS I realized they had combined my grain bill for me..so I ended up a with 1lb of each of my grains mixed together. Since it was getting late and I didn't have time to get back to the store I decided to just scale down and make what I had. Since everything was mixed together giving me 6lbs of grain I used 4.5 for the mash and went ahead with the full 3lbs of extract. After putting 12oz of each into beer calculator I was supposed to have a target gravity of 1.043 which is a little high for a mild.

What am I gonna end up with and is the coffee or chocolate going to dominate this beer?

 

[dougdecinces]

At the fear of sounding redundant, let me say RDWHAHB.

Plugging in the other six malts, assuming equal volumes of each, it looks like you'll have a very dark, though probably still pretty good beer (I got 33 SRM). Call it Porter Gone Mild or something.

 

[EarlyBirdBrew]

I like that: Porter Gone Mild...I had a few homebrews while brewing. Just thought I would see if anyone else has had to go this route and throw it all in and go for it. The Wort was quite a bit darker than what I was shooting for but from the sample I think it might come out pretty good.

Austin Homebrew sales the coffee malt. That was added on a whim to the recipe to boost the flavor.