I randomly picked up 500g carafa. Also have tin dark ale

[alilley]

Was thinking about using the dark ale tin to make a nut brown, but that is open to change. Will carafa make the dark ale tin too much? Cheers.

[Shamus O'Sean]

4 hours ago, alilley said:

Was thinking about using the dark ale tin to make a nut brown, but that is open to change. Will carafa make the dark ale tin too much? Cheers.

Looking at the Coopers recipes, they mostly use 200 - 300g of Carafa 3 in several recipes.  And those recipes use paler cans as the main fermentables.  500g with the dark ale can might be a bit much.  If you like really dark beers, it might be fine.

[alilley]

Yeh, I wasn't intending to use the lot.

[Shamus O'Sean]

On 3/15/2021 at 6:13 PM, alilley said:

Yeh, I wasn't intending to use the lot.

I just checked.  I did a Nut Brown Porter a little while ago.  

• Dark Ale can
• 1.5kg Pale Liquid Malt
• 500g Crystal Malt
• 200g Brown Malt

Loved it.

Edited March 16, 2021 by Shamus O'Sean

[alilley]

19 hours ago, Shamus O'Sean said:

I just checked.  I did a Nut Brown Porter a little while ago.  

• Dark Ale can
• 1.5kg Pale Liquid Malt
• 500g Crystal Malt
• 200g Brown Malt

Loved it.

Cheers, may give that a crack. 

Brown Malt – Gladfield – EBC: 150 – 200

What is it?
Malt roasted to a light brown colour. A stronger version of our Biscuit Malt.

Looks like it can't go wrong. But does it need to be mashed? Biscuit malt does.

[Shamus O'Sean]

4 hours ago, alilley said:

Cheers, may give that a crack. 

Brown Malt – Gladfield – EBC: 150 – 200

What is it?
Malt roasted to a light brown colour. A stronger version of our Biscuit Malt.

Looks like it can't go wrong. But does it need to be mashed? Biscuit malt does.

In my case, I just did a 60 minute hot steep of the Crystal and the Brown Malt.  I was more after flavour and colour, so converted sugar was less important.  However, my hot steep probably got some.