Random grains What have I got here?

[Schomer]

Someone mis-measured grains and I picked up an inexpensive bag of grains that looks interesting. What kind of beer do you think I’m looking at here - maybe a stout?

Crisp Pale 14.33 lbs.
Biscuit 4.41 lbs
Cara Gold 1.74 lbs.
Chocolate 1.1 lbs.
Cara Munich 1.1 lbs.
Black .55 lbs.
Special B .55 lbs.

 

[JKaranka]

Is that all mixed together in one bag? Lots of stuff, lots of biscuit.

 

[lowtones84]

Hmmm...a Belgian...amber? Haha I dunno.

 

[Fedora]

That's alot of biscuit, but if I was gonna brew it, I'd add 1/2lb of roasted barley and more black patent for color if needed. Might make a great stout.

 

[Schomer]

it seems to have quite a bit of the dark stuff in there already, but i could add a bit more… i don’t know what Biscuit is like… have never brewed anything with that. looked it up online and it says it gives it a bread/biscuit aroma. still not sure i have ever thought about a bread aroma before.

i think i’ll just grab a hop and yeast plan from a stout and follow that, to see what i get.

thanks for the feedback, guys!

 

[Schomer]

i just wish i knew what the guy was trying to make, when they screwed up his order, so i could look into it. the guy at the brew supply place didn’t know...

 

[1977Brewer]

If I was trying to clone NewBelgium 1554, this would be close.

 

[chickypad]

So with almost 24 lbs of grain are you doing a 10 gal batch? It kinda looks like it was trying to be a brown or a porter (if 10 gal), but that's a lot of biscuit and total cara/crystal at 18.5% and 14% respectively. The biscuit does give a toasty cracker like quality, but in large amounts can be overwhelming and may make it seem very dry. I'd consider cutting the grainbill with some base malt, then add in some roasted barley like Fedora mentioned and make it into a stout. Or you could go for it.

 

[JKaranka]

I would use a third of that and top it up with pale malt and black patent malt to make a triple stout.

 

[Schomer]

i like where you guys are going with turning it into a stout, with some added pale malt and black patent.

the more i think about this, the more i’d rather spend a brew day making a known beer, rather than a mystery beer. i’ll give this one a shot, but in the future, without more knowledge of the various grains, i’m probably going to pass.

thanks again for taking a look and offering up your ideas!

 

[Qhrumphf]

Are these all combined? If not, I'd cut the Biscuit in half (or even less). Otherwise, it's not the end of the world. If you've ever used Victory malt, Biscuit is more or less the same thing. AFAIK, "Victory" is Briess's trademark name for their Biscuit malt. They're very similiar of nothing else.

But I would concur with the rest of these guys, add more English pale malt to supplement the Crisp, add some roasted barley, and go RIS with it.