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I want to do a brew involving a range of dark malts aiming to bring out the liquorice and fruity notes of the malts using flyer and bramling cross to accentuate that.
I've done two brews recently that came out really well and I'm going to use as the base -( both are 12l ) they were -
2kg pale malt
500g pale rye malt
215g black malt
16g Flyer 90 min
16g flyer 10 min
10g flyer 0
and
Pale malt 1.2Kg
Brown malt 1.5Kg
Munich malt 0.5Kg
Challenger 35g 90min
Challenger 35g 30min
So I want to get the black malt in there, and the brown malt plus some crystal rye but I'm worried about over doing it.
How does this sound ?
2Kg Maris otter - pale
1kg Brown malt
150g Black malt
200g Crystal rye
Flyer 15g 60min
Bramling cross 20g 60min
Flyer 10g 0min
Bramling cross 20g 0min
The Flyer's about 12% alpha, the Bramling 6.
I'm planning a mixture of Burton yeast and Bret.
Does that look balanced? I've knocked back the brown malt a little from what I'd normally use to make way for the higher roast malts.
I don't want the hops to dominate but I found the toffee/liquorice of the Flyer came out really well in my previous go and makes sense to try combining it with bramling which has some overlap in flavor.
I've done two brews recently that came out really well and I'm going to use as the base -( both are 12l ) they were -
2kg pale malt
500g pale rye malt
215g black malt
16g Flyer 90 min
16g flyer 10 min
10g flyer 0
and
Pale malt 1.2Kg
Brown malt 1.5Kg
Munich malt 0.5Kg
Challenger 35g 90min
Challenger 35g 30min
So I want to get the black malt in there, and the brown malt plus some crystal rye but I'm worried about over doing it.
How does this sound ?
2Kg Maris otter - pale
1kg Brown malt
150g Black malt
200g Crystal rye
Flyer 15g 60min
Bramling cross 20g 60min
Flyer 10g 0min
Bramling cross 20g 0min
The Flyer's about 12% alpha, the Bramling 6.
I'm planning a mixture of Burton yeast and Bret.
Does that look balanced? I've knocked back the brown malt a little from what I'd normally use to make way for the higher roast malts.
I don't want the hops to dominate but I found the toffee/liquorice of the Flyer came out really well in my previous go and makes sense to try combining it with bramling which has some overlap in flavor.