Oops. Over measured!

[stompwampa]

I was measuring out grains for an Oktoberfest at my LHBS.

I needed .5 lbs of Biscuit and I put in 1.5. Looked at the wrong line item on the recipe card.

This is for a 10 gal batch.

Any major issues with this? It was too late once I realized the mistake. The grains already went through the mill.

On a side not, the LBHS didn’t have Carmunich in stock. They said Crystal 40 would be a good substitute. Thoughts on this?

Here’s the full recipe:

9lb Munich 1
7.5lb Pilsner
1.5 C40 (supposed to be Caramunich)
1lb Belgian Aromatic
1.5 Biscuit (supposed to be .5lb)

Thanks!

[nighthawk]

Obviously it will not be the beer you were planing on making. It might be even better.

Caramunich is listed as 34L on NB’s site. So C-40 would be close.

With the increase in the Biscuit, it will be a tad darker. And have more flavor.

[stompwampa]

Turns out I didn’t overmeasure. I thought I did.

At the LBHS, my bucket was 19.5lbs and I thought I needed 18lbs of grain.

Got home to adjust the recipe, only to find out that the original was already 19lbs.

I put in an extra half lb of aromatic malt because I could only buy it in 1lb bags.

[glug_master]

Caramunich is great C malt, too bad you couldn’t get it, 40 will work though. The last few years I’ve been using Caramunich III in place of C-60 with good results.