1st Stout & Specialty Grain Brew

[b33risGOOD]

Have a few non kit brews under my belt and my next brew will be a stout I picked up in the recipe section of this site called "boondock Irish Stout" That seemed to really be a hit.

Ill will be trying to follow the recipe as close as I can but some things are not available here. This is the original recipe.

Batch Size (Gallons): 5
Grains:
0.5 lbs. Caramel/Crystal Malt 80L
2.0 lbs. (Black) Roasted Barley 300 SRM
0.33 lbs. Flaked Barley 1.7 SRM

Extract:
4 lbs. Pale (Medium) Liquid Extract
1.75 lbs. Light DRY Extract

Hops:
1 oz. Target (Beginning)
1 oz. East Kent Goldings (Finishing)

Yeast:
Munton's Gold (ill use whitelabs Liquid Irish ale)

Now here is the problem, I dont have Caramel/Crystal Malt 80L available. I have the 20 60 and 120 but not the 80. And from what I read the other ones impart a Red color? What else could I use?

Also can i use DME Light, instead of Amber or dark?

Feel free to throw in some input.

 

[Dave258]

Isn't 2 pounds of roasted barley ALOT?

 

[gestyr]

+1 to 2 lbs of roasted barley being too much

As for the crystal malt, the 60L will be pretty close to 80L in flavor. The 120L will give you a raisin/currant flavor along with toffee.

 

[b33risGOOD]

In the recipe thread lots of people questions that amount but then tried it and said it was great. It got good reviews on this site, recipe - Stout Boondock Irish ale. Maybe ill use 1#