Recipe help

[RandalG]

So I got a California Common recipe out of BYO and entered in Beersmith but the gravity estimate came out way high. So my question is can I just cut back on the 2 row base grain with out effecting the overall taste too much. I know I can adjust the gravity in Beersmith but it adjusts all the grain and I had my LHBS put them all in one bag which makes that kind of difficult. I have the base grain separate so that would be the easy way to go. Here is the grain bill from the original recipe. In BYO it says 1.054 OG but in Beersmith it comes at 1.062.

9lb Pale 2 row
1.10lb Munich Malt
.88lb Caramel 40L
.44lb Victory Malt
.11lb Pale Chocolate

 

[no_borders]

yea you should be able to knock off some two row and not see too much impact. 8 points isnt all that much, i adjust base grians up or down all the time without messing with the specialty grains at all and haven had a problem.