Ingredient suggestions as Substitute for Brewers crystals

[DuncB]

I'm wanting to make a recipe English ale Bass clone and use about 6% brewers crystals. These don't seem to be available here in New Zealand but from my reading it's a mix of glucose and maltodextrine /unfermentable sugars.

If I was going to use some invert sugar and gladiator malt similar to carapils or dextrin malt what proportions would I use?
The brew will be all grain except for any sugar.

Or is this the wrong approach?

 

[jschein]

I use 85% pale
10% crystal 40
5% carapils
For my bass clone

 

[DuncB]

I use 85% pale
10% crystal 40
5% carapils
For my bass clone

Thanks, more of a question re the brewers crystals substitute/ creation than a Bass recipe.

My recipe is 85% Pale, 9 percent crystal malt and 6% brewers crystal instead of the 6% DME suggested.

 

[fluketamer]

i have subbed brewers crystals for 50/50 dextrose/MD and didnt notice much difference when i did.

 

[day_trippr]

Morebeer claims "brewers crystals" contains 56% Maltose, 16% maltotriose, 8% dextrose, and 20% "higher saccharides" which we can take as dextrins. I'd say a reasonable sub would be 70-80% corn sugar and the rest maltodextrin, tweaking the ratio in the direction one wants (more mouthfeel = up the maltodextrin, drier finish = cut it back)...

Cheers!

 

[DuncB]

Morebeer claims "brewers crystals" contains 56% Maltose, 16% maltotriose, 8% dextrose, and 20% "higher saccharides" which we can take as dextrins. I'd say a reasonable sub would be 70-80% corn sugar and the rest maltodextrin, tweaking the ratio in the direction one wants (more mouthfeel = up the maltodextrin, drier finish = cut it back)...

Cheers

Pretty much my own pick on the ratio then, more fermentable sugars than I thought.

 

[Dave C01]

My recipe is 85% Pale, 9 percent crystal malt and 6% brewers crystal instead of the 6% DME suggested.

That sounds pretty close to the recipe description in the latest YouTube video on The Malt Miller channel