help with high gravity porter

[EVBrewing]

I have a recipe im planning on brewing for a vanilla porter that has been around for a long time and seems to get rave reviews from what iv seen. The only thing i would like to change is to lower the gravity a bit. I dont have the numbers in front of me but i remember the abv is projected to be like 8.7% when i plugged it into beer smith.

Im looking for opinions on the best way to go about it. My thoughts are to either take a percentage of of each grain in the bill across the board or to simply take from the two row base grain. Any thoughts?

 

[EVBrewing]

Anybody. Somebody.

 

[axacrusis]

Yes to lower the Intended OG you would want to cut the base grain to your desired gravity.

You would wanted to turn everything into a percentage then scale down.

Beer smith should give you the proportions of your scaled down version and your golden.

Cheers

 

[EVBrewing]

I appreciate the input. I want to the profile of the beer that the creator intended, just lower the gravity so it comes in somewhere around an 8%. That way i can enjoy a couple of pints without wanting to take a nap afterwards. Ha ha.