First All Grain Recipe mistake

[trojan]

So my first all grain batch was to be an amber ale, well it was supposed to be. I looked up a few recipe threads here and other places online and found one that I thought would be fairly good and easy.
8lbs 2 row
1 lb of crystal
.5lb of chocolate malt
1ozChinook at 60 minutes
1oz Williamette at flame out

My issues started with my local HBS has prepackaged 1lb Chocolate malt bags. Since I am rather cheap I didn't like the idea of storing .5lb of unused malt so I decided to just scale up the other malts to compensate. My recipe consisted of:

12lbs of 2 rowMaris Otter
1lb of Crystal 60
1lb of Crystal 80
1lb of Chocolate malt
1oz of Chinook(60min)
1oz of Williamette(flameout)

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As you can see, my amber came out a bit dark but pretty tasty. I have learned to be careful with the Chocolate malts but also even a mistake can turn out pretty great.

 

[Anyhowe]

Not sure how anything amber would result from the original recipe with 8 oz of chocolate either.

 

[Cavpilot2000]

Was that in a 5 gallon batch?
What was your OG, 1.075?

 

[Cavpilot2000]

Not sure how anything amber would result from the original recipe with 8 oz of chocolate either.

Agreed. And 2# crystal is a lot, even for an amber ale, unless you want a dessert beer.

 

[trojan]

After seeing and tasting my results I am not sure how either. I rebrewed it without the Chocolate and it is much closer in color at least. I will know a few weeks about the flavor.

 

[trojan]

Was that in a 5 gallon batch?

What was your OG, 1.075?

Yeah a 5 gallon batch with a 1.072 OG and finished at 1.012. I expected the higher ABV and is still tastes pretty good to my untrained tastebuds.