What are the affects of lowering qts/lb of strike water when mashing?

[jpm5171988]

My 5 gallon cream ale recipe calls for 1.6 qt/lb of strike water. How will it affect my results if I lower my strike amount to 1.2 qts/lb and compensate by adding more sparge water? Will the taste change, will the gravity change?

 

[lumpher]

with those #'s, nothing. i never mash with 1.6/qt anyway. i use 1.2 qts/lb as my normal numbers

 

[Suthrncomfrt1884]

The gravity will probably change which would in turn change the taste. A thicker mash will lead to more dextrins and a thicker beer. It can also raise your efficiency giving you a higher gravity. I usually aim for about 1.25-1.3, but on bigger beers, I've gone as low as .75 in order to make room in my tun.

It's not very fun stirring 20lbs of grain at .75qts/lb though.

 

[bullinachinashop]

The gravity will probably change which would in turn change the taste. A thicker mash will lead to more dextrins and a thicker beer. It can also raise your efficiency giving you a higher gravity. I usually aim for about 1.25-1.3, but on bigger beers, I've gone as low as .75 in order to make room in my tun.

It's not very fun stirring 20lbs of grain at .75qts/lb though.

I just had to drop my ratio to 1qt. / 1lbs. in order to fit everything into my mash tun. I ended up with 91% efficiency.

My SNPA clone just went IMPERIAl!

Bull