Does this grain bill look ok

[ianj84]

So I want to brew a amber ale using pilsner malt as my base.

How's
80% pilsner malt
10. Cara pils
10. Crystal 60

Also what kind of yeast should I use for this?

Thanks

 

[SpottedDogBrewing]

Us-05

 

[Yooper]

For an amber, I like using a darker mix of crystal malt instead of the carapils. Any cara- malt would work- carared, cara-amber, crystal 80, etc. I'd probably do:

base grain 80%
crystal carared or 20L 8-10%
Crystal 80L 5 %
Munich or Vienna, or other "character" malt: 5%

Use a clean, well attenuating ale yeast like Wlp001 or Wyeast 1056, or pacman. For dry, S05 is good but if you can maintain cool temperatures (62-64), S04 is great.

 

[ianj84]

Cool, thanks

Hey yooper I brewed you're too malty pale ale, brilliant stuff.

Wanna do the same this time but use pilsner malt as base.

 

[ianj84]

So I went with

4500 g pilsner
300 cara pils
300 dark crystal
300 Vienna

Any good?