I keep refining my APA recipe, and I’ll be changing two things on my next batch: making a late addition of hops for both flavor and some modified bitterness, and dropping the Crystal Malt from 60 to 15 to lessen the caramel flavor I've been getting. The caramel flavor has been too noticeable, overpowering the other beer flavors I’m looking for, thus the reason for reducing the Crystal Malt.
By changing from Crystal 60L to 15L, while keeping the % of Crystal malt the same in relation to the grain, I drop the EBC of the beer. So in order to increase the EBC back to a mid range for an APA, I'm thinking of adding a small amount of Black Patent (I’m looking for an EBC of around 18). I don't think this is a big deal, but I want to throw this out to other BIABers as I’ve not used Black Patent before. I’m pretty sure that my HBS will want to grind the Black Patent in with the rest of the grain. I’ve read that Black Patent can give off a burnt flavor if mashed with the rest of the grains and then boiled, but this is such a small amount that I doubt it will matter. I could ask the HBS to set the Black Patent aside - I’m just curious if you all think it’s worth worrying about.
I’ve attached my BIABacus for this batch for your review. I’ll be adding 2.2 oz of Cascade (pellets) at FO and another 2 oz when I cool the wort to 170f. It looks like the BIABacus makes adjustments to IBUs for hop additions up to 0 minutes, so I’m keeping the IBUs for this batch at 41 and my bitterness to gravity ratio at about 7. This recipe started out as a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale “clone”, thus the IBU and BGR targets.
One thing I can’t get to work is that if I keep the original grain bill, in section C, and then enter the Crystal 15 in “substitutions”, I can’t add Black Patent (EBC 1460) to the “substitution” part to make a difference on the EBC without also adding it to the Original grain bill. Is there a way to modify the EBC by changing an ingredient outside of the Original grain bill? Or should I just add the Black Patent information into the Original Grain bill and adjust the weight of the Black Patent in “substitutions” until I hit the EBC I’m looking for in section A? Or do I have something mis-entered somewhere in the BIABacus?
Thanks for looking!
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