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just wondering what everyone thinks of this recipie

had this batch going for a week
ingredients
Brewcraft munich lager 1.5kg
Morgans Master Blend caramalt 1kg
40gms Hallertau hops
500gms LDME
500gms dextrose
250 gms Dried corn syrup
50gms of Cracked roasted barley
250gms of soft dark brown sugar (left over from chimay attempt)
2 packs of safale yeast
S.G. 1054

Is this a belgian of some sort? Why start with a German base and then add all this weird stuff?

I would have used the choclate malt rather than the caramalt. Skipped the dex, corn syrup, roasted barley and brown sugar and probably just used a kilo of LDME instead.

Why two packs of safale yeast?

just wanted to mix some things together and see how it turns out, ya never know..

Fair enough. I am sure it will be a very nice brew. The brown sugar addition may be a touch over the top, but otherwise those ingredients should work well together!

I'm surprised you state the OG of this lot is only be 1.059, and I thought it should have been higher.
However, it should finish with a relatively high FG of around 1.015 to 1.020, I think.
Should have plenty of flavour. Like Kev said, it seems to be a cross between a German and Belgian.
Anyway, good luck with it.

yeah i thought it would have been around 1070 or there abouts, hopefully it's a nice drop
cheers for the input

It does look a touch bizarre. Hope it works for you. Let us know how it turns out.

It looks OK to me.

warra48 wrote:I'm surprised you state the OG of this lot is only be 1.059, and I thought it should have been higher.

I too thought it would be a big beer, then read the sg line

Probably would not have added the brown sugar and dex and just gone 2 kg's of malt, BUT, I like that you like to give it a go shimmy, you may stumble onto a good beer.

Cheers

Boonie