pjc
Active Member
Hi,
I am trying to make a porter and I have found a few recipes which call for 86% Pale Malt, 7% Crystal and 7% Black Malt. The finished beer colour is stated as being around 65 EBC. All seems reasonable.
The black malt from my LHBS has an EBC rating of 1300. Plugging that into the recipe above I calculate the colour of the beer as 153 EBC which is way off. I can only bring it down to 65 by using around 3% black malt. It's the same calculation I have been using on countless other beers and they have all come out as the colour I have calculated.
So, should I just brew as per the recipe and not worry about the colour (and potential other effects) or should I use less black malt?
I am trying to make a porter and I have found a few recipes which call for 86% Pale Malt, 7% Crystal and 7% Black Malt. The finished beer colour is stated as being around 65 EBC. All seems reasonable.
The black malt from my LHBS has an EBC rating of 1300. Plugging that into the recipe above I calculate the colour of the beer as 153 EBC which is way off. I can only bring it down to 65 by using around 3% black malt. It's the same calculation I have been using on countless other beers and they have all come out as the colour I have calculated.
So, should I just brew as per the recipe and not worry about the colour (and potential other effects) or should I use less black malt?
