Hi, I hope this is the correct place to to ask this question. I am a home brewer in South Africa and sometimes I can't find the exact ingredients I need. I bought myself Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmers book, great! I was wondering if you could blend two crystal malts to get your target lovibond. Example:
Say I need 100g Crystal 80, but all I can find is Crystal 60 and 120. If I mix 33g of Crystal 120 and 67g of Crystal 60 the resulting weight and Lovibond would be the same as if I just used 100g Crystal 80 as I was supposed to.
I have found a malt substitution chart that helps, but I am to much of a novice to be SURE of what I am doing and I want to follow the recipes in that great book as close as possible for learning purposes.
Any thoughts and tips on this would be much appreciated.
Gogga
Say I need 100g Crystal 80, but all I can find is Crystal 60 and 120. If I mix 33g of Crystal 120 and 67g of Crystal 60 the resulting weight and Lovibond would be the same as if I just used 100g Crystal 80 as I was supposed to.
I have found a malt substitution chart that helps, but I am to much of a novice to be SURE of what I am doing and I want to follow the recipes in that great book as close as possible for learning purposes.
Any thoughts and tips on this would be much appreciated.
Gogga