So i just got done deculming my malt for brewing tomorrow. ended up with 20.5lb's of twice kilned pale malt...not as expected, but it needed another sesh to dry down enough for deculming and milling....
any way i wanted to give a side by side with the exact same recipe of store bought....(but with a couple more pounds of base malt due to my lower effec)
anyway seems my best bet now is to add crystal 60 in 1 oz increments, until the colors match? anyone ever try designing a recipe kinda on the fly/reverse? i was think i'll dough in with the pale in my mash tun, then draw off a sample and add the crystal and ounce at a time, till i get the color i want?
what do you think? (original was 8oz's, 10 gallon batch. so i'm thinking i might just need 4-5 with this one, do to the longer kilning)
any way i wanted to give a side by side with the exact same recipe of store bought....(but with a couple more pounds of base malt due to my lower effec)
anyway seems my best bet now is to add crystal 60 in 1 oz increments, until the colors match? anyone ever try designing a recipe kinda on the fly/reverse? i was think i'll dough in with the pale in my mash tun, then draw off a sample and add the crystal and ounce at a time, till i get the color i want?
what do you think? (original was 8oz's, 10 gallon batch. so i'm thinking i might just need 4-5 with this one, do to the longer kilning)