All grain recipe help

Josh,

This sounds like a pretty tasty recipe.

Things to consider:

All the literature that I have supports that Carapils (Dextrine) should make up about 5-20% of your total grist. It should yield 1.025-35 SG per pound (0.5kg) in 60F (15.5C) water. It should also yield 1-2 points SRM toward the color.

Wheat malt you can use less of, 5-10% of the total grist. It will yield

Both alone in those proportions should give you great head retention, or you can use them both together as you did for your first batch. My only quip is wheat malt is a chore to hand mill. Otherwise both are about equal in price (at least here in the states) and both give unique characteristics while performing the same function.

Like I always say, it's a matter of preference.

Where you aiming for a particular style or just "experimenting"?

Kent

Aiming for a continental style lager with little aroma.

I don't have a mill, so I buy my grain from the store and get them to crack it there.

Thanks for the response, I might keep it the same, as that was the recipe me and my mate liked so much.

Josh, my only question is what was the size of the batch? I converted your 150 grams to ounces and got 5.3. I usually use 3.5 ozs (about

Just thought I'd give an update. The mash and boil went well apart from the drop in efficiency. I will be making some adjustments to my tun in the hope of more even flow through.

Boiling on the barbecue worked a treat and I will use that again when I attempt a James Boag's Draught next time round.