hogg44
Active Member
My question is, do small malt additions (1-2%) do anything for flavor or are they primarily for color?
I've only been brewing about a year and I've seen lots of recipes with 1-2% of different malts. If I'm only concerned about flavor and not color, can I just skip those additions and scale the rest of the malts to get the appropriate gravity?
Some examples of what I'm talking about in Brewing Classic Styles: 2 oz of Black Patent in the dark mild recipe, 2 oz of CaraMunich in the saison, 1 oz of black patent in the biere de garde.
Just trying to follow the K.I.S.S. philsophy! Thanks for your words of wisdom!
I've only been brewing about a year and I've seen lots of recipes with 1-2% of different malts. If I'm only concerned about flavor and not color, can I just skip those additions and scale the rest of the malts to get the appropriate gravity?
Some examples of what I'm talking about in Brewing Classic Styles: 2 oz of Black Patent in the dark mild recipe, 2 oz of CaraMunich in the saison, 1 oz of black patent in the biere de garde.
Just trying to follow the K.I.S.S. philsophy! Thanks for your words of wisdom!