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I have heard of doing all the 2row smoked for a smoked porter. Do you recommend only 20% for a black IPA? I want it clear it is smoked but not overpowering. How fast did the smoky flavor fade from your rye pa?

should I smoke all 10 pounds of the two row?

I realize the title is misleading. Should have titled the thread, smoked IPA and maybe I would have got a response. People probably just think I'm packing a pipe full of grains. lol:drunk:

this is a 23liter batch. it was 300 grams roasted barley and 350 carafaII in the above recipe. I can scale the recipe down to 20 liters and use 450grams roasted barley and 200 grams carafaII. That will give me 8% roast and 3.6% carafa. How does that sound?

Please take a look at my second all grain recipe for a stout. I am limited to weyermann malts and I have 1 pound of roasted barley to use from a friend. I am hoping for an extra foreign type stout with a little more hoppiness than usual. Stoutman's Extra Irish (Foreign Extra Stout)...

I am interested in doing a smoked black IPA. Any suggestions on which grains would be best to smoke to give this a nice smoky flavor that isn't overpowering? Has anyone ever done a smoked black IPA? I will be smoking my own grains. Thanks

Ended up brewing a porter with BIAB. Here's the grain bill. 5 pounds pilsner 2 pounds vienna 1 pound carahell .85 pounds carafa Not as roasty as I would like, but the wort had good chocolate and coffee flavors. I will try to up the percentage of carafa next time. These being the only malts I...

Wish I could but I am lucky that carafa is available right now, only through another home brewer. and Thanks Philip, think I'll try a porter first and see how it goes. Like you said, it will be beer! :mug:

The only dark malt I have available is CaraFaII regular. I have never used it before. Anyone had experience with it? Will it impart enough roast/flavors for making porters and stouts without any other roasted malts in the grain bill? How much would you recommend for stouts and porters?

Thanks for the reply. Could I get away with all vienna malt as the base? So 85%vienna?

Trying my first AG batch in a foreign country and supplies are limited. I only have some Weyermann Malts available. I want to make a porter if possible. Malts I have available are: Vienna Malt Pilsner CaraHell CaraFa II (not special-regular husked) Coopers Amber Liquid Malt (I want AG...

I am new to brewing and brewing beer in Thailand where supplies are very very limited. I can get amber LME, barley flakes, oats, and wheat flakes. I have some cascade and amarillo hops. I want to make an american pale ale. I wondered how much barley flakes i could use against the amber LME to...

I use bleach to sanitize. I usually make a pretty strong ratio in a large bucket and dump everything in. I boil a huge pot of hot water and rinse everything with it. The hot water gets all the residue off and I have never had a problem with medicinal tastes in my beer due to chlorine.