My first mini mash this weekend

[jcarson83]

Ok I decided on a recipe and I'm going to brew up my first partial mash this weekend. Here it is:

2lbs American Crystal Malt 40
4lbs Pale Malt (2-row)

3lbs Light DME

Cascade Hops (assuming 6%aa for now)
1.25oz 60min left
1.25oz 20min left
0.5oz 6min left
2oz dry hop at 2 weeks

Pete Moss 2 min left

Yeast 1056

I calculated IBU 40, OG 1.050 based on my spreadsheet.

I'm planning on buying a 5gal circular cooler and building a lauter tun with copper pipping as recommended in some of the other posts. 60 min mash with batch sparge at 170F. I haven't calculated my sparge amounts yet.

Oh and I just got a turkey fryer so I can do a full 5 gallon boil.

Yeah I posted this in another thread but no one was commenting so I thought I would also give it its own.

Is there too much crystal malt in it? I just doubled the ingredient that my book called for too get my OG up.

I already ordered the ingredients but I could pick up some more pale malt if I need.

 

[Blender]

IMO I think that you do have too much Crystal. I would scale it back to a lb. and sub it with more Pale. When I ran the hops through Promash it was more than 40 too. It was in the 50's. Good Luck

 

[Shambolic]

Who is Pete Moss?

Anyway...

That does seem like too much crystal for a pale ale. Maybe halve it, and add another pound of DME to get your gravity up. It wouldn't hurt to have a bit more extract in there for your first attempt at a partial mash anyway, in case your efficiency is crap!