What Have I Created!?! Input Needed - Please

[rmgruber]

This could be bad or it could be amazing.

I "tried" to convert a full mash recipe to a partial and my ADHD played a trick on me. I misread OZ. to read LBS. (don't ask)

Here's the recipe:

Ingredients

4 lbs Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 1 36.4 %
3 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.0 SRM) Grain 2 27.3 %
2 lbs Dark Dry Extract (17.5 SRM) Dry Extract 3 18.2 %
2 lbs Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 4 18.2 %
0.82 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 12.4 IBUs
1.0 pkg Edinburgh Ale (White Labs #WLP028) [35.49 ml] Yeast 6

I know, I know -- That's a lot of Barley.

Also broke my hydrometer tube so no OG reading.

It was very active in the fermentor, but has slowed nicely (day 4) and smells fantastic. But what is it and will it turn out being beer?

Thoughts? Concerns? Ideas? General teasing?

 

[Yooper]

If you can drink it, it will be beer. I probably couldn't drink it, but if you don't mind the intense roast too much, you could drink it.

 

[rmgruber]

How "intense" might it be? Is there a beer style or particular beer that has this much roasted barley in it?

 

[Yooper]

How "intense" might it be? Is there a beer style or particular beer that has this much roasted barley in it?

No. No beer style has 36% roasted barley.

Try a sample. If you can stomach it, then it'll be fine for you.

 

[kh54s10]

I think it would be similar to brewing your morning coffee with 1 cup per mug-full instead of 1 tablespoon...

If you like really strong coffee maybe you will like really roast beer.

 

[rmgruber]

Will the damage of the barley be lessened if the grain bag was not fully immersed in the mash? (80% under water).

 

[chumpsteak]

Triple espresso stout?

 

[rmgruber]

Alright gentleman, I will concede that this sucker is likely going to be strong flavored. Any input on how to mellow it?

 

[kh54s10]

You could brew something light and mild and make a blend. Maybe an APA?

 

[Antler]

You could brew something light and mild and make a blend. Maybe an APA?

I'm assuming this was a 5g batch. Id brew an apa. Blend half the crazy **** with half the apa, so you'd still have half batch of apa and half batch of the crazy **** if you liked it lol

 

[splobucket]

Hey thats a good idea. I'd brew a blonde ale and see how well it cuts the roast... maybe 4 parts blonde and 1 part... well, whatever you want to call your concoction!

 

[harrymanback92]

Just age it, IMO. The roasty ness will subside

 

[2bluewagons]

You have made...something I am very interested to try! Check my logic people, wouldn't we expect this thing to have a much lower pH due to all the roast? Might have implications for fermentation, as in yeast lysis? I would make sure to taste it post-fermentation before you consider blending it to make sure nothing funny happened. Should be interesting!

 

[Ladd]

Sounds delicious to me! +1 to harrymanback92. I would just age it out. But then again, I love black, roasty-toasty beer!

 

[Soldevi]

Plugging this into a calc I get an OG of about 1.055, thats with a efficiency of 73%. 7 gal preboil volume. I don't think the yeast will have a problem. Stick it out and give it a taste. sound interesting.