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If your driving through buffalo, ny try and see if you can pick up a growler of community beer work's IPA (they may be listed as CBW also) or flying bison rusty chain. Rust chain is their amber ale and a personal favorite although their IPA and Kolch are good also. CBW you will only find as a...

Awesome thanks for the explanation

Ah I see. So the need to mash with a base malt is that malted grains have the enzymes to convert the sugars in the flaked grains?

This is a side question but by substituting out the malted wheat for flaked wheat and oats wouldn't you have decreased the amount of your fermentable sugars in the wort? Or does the protein rest allow those to modify so that you can extract fermentable sugars from them?