<div dir="ltr">I would aim for 1.050 gravity, and mash at a higher temperature to make more unfermentables.<div>At least 68C, possibly 70. The higher mash will balance hops and roast bitterness.</div><div><br></div><div>IIRC T-58 attenuates well.maybe too well, and it will add a phenolic spiciness that may or may not be desirable (I find it a bit harsh and one dimensional).</div><div><br></div><div>Bitter with challenger, and add both EKG and Challenger in your late 5/10 min additions, make sure you get your numbers right in your IBU calculator.</div><div><br></div><div>I would steep the carafa seperate, carafa 3 adds a lot of roast bitterness in a full mash that is undesirable</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:algoldor@foodhackingbase.org" target="_blank">algoldor@foodhackingbase.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi to all,<br>
I've updated the dark beer recipe plus manual. Importantly I've added the "LOG" for the last experiment. I'm interested in your opinions<br>
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I would like to decrease the amount of alcohol to roughly 4% alc. for this beer still keeping the beer dark with full body and caramel flavour. I've new package of "East Kent Goldings" 4.66 aa (200 g of pelets) and Challenger 9.4 aa (200 g of pelets). I'm nearly out of the original Kent Golding 5.6 aa so I would prefer to work with the previous two for the next batches.<br>
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I wonder how can I change the recipe to keep to the promisses above? I've also more speciality malts, can name them later on if you like, the base malts being Pilsner Malt.<br>
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Thanks for any suggestions I will try to upload more pictures soon!<br>
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Below is the recapitulation of the basic ingredients,<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Frantisek<br>
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Basic conditions desired: alcohol per volume 4% (alc), original gravity of 1.05 (still applies or probably lower if alc. conent drops by 2%?), bitterness of 30 IBU (again probably lower)<br>
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Batch size (culture volume Vc) - Vc = 14 l<br>
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Malts composition (for last batch):<br>
25% (w/v; 3500 g) of Pilsner malt<br>
5% (w/v; 700 g) of Munich malt<br>
1.5% (w/v; 210 g) of caramunich 3<br>
1.5% (w/v; 210 g) carafa2 (steep separate?)<br>
0.5% (w/v; 70 g) cara aroma<br>
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Hops composition (for last batch):<br>
0.3% (w/v; 42 g) of Kent golding 4-5% of aa<br>
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Yeast type<br>
Safbrew T-58<br>
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Fermentation temperature 20°C<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck<br>
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