English Chocolate Malt

[Scrap dogg]

Has anyone here had any experience combining English Chocolate malt with either 6 row or malted rye when mashing?

[NKT]

I used some crystal 120 and chocolate malt in a bourbon recently... 14% and 3% of the total grain bill. That was way too much. Use the specialty malts sparingly because a LOT of flavor carries over, and there is definitely a point where it becomes too much (my experience based on one batch).

[W.S.C.beachman]

Good to know thanks!!

[firewater69]

I recently used some chocolate but it was only 2.8% of the grain bill. any morre would have been too much. the rest was 2 row, crimped oats,& munich. very tasty.

[Fastill]

Gotta be carefull with some of the specialty malts, they'll make your shine bitter. Learned from experience.

[firewater69]

Good info to know, thanks.