Grain replacement for LME Golden Light (Briess) (4.0 SRM)

[pretorjn Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close pretorjn]

I plan on brewing the Maris Otter Epic Special Bitter from the Beersmith library.

It call for the following ingredients:

4 lbs	Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM)	Grain	1
4.0 oz	Caramel Malt - 60L (Briess) (60.0 SRM)	Grain	2
4.0 oz	Carapils (Briess) (1.5 SRM)	Grain	3
2.0 oz	Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM)	Grain	4
2.0 oz	Melanoiden Malt (20.0 SRM)	Grain	5
3 lbs 4.8 oz	LME Golden Light (Briess) (4.0 SRM)	Grain	6
2.0 oz	Goldings, East Kent [5.0%] - Boil 60 min	Hops	7
1.0 oz	Goldings, East Kent [5.0%] - Boil 5 min	Hops	8
1 pkgs	SafAle English Ale (DCL/Fermentis #S-04)	Yeast	9

What grains can I use to substitute the LME Golden Light (Briess) (4.0 SRM) to make this an all grain brew?

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

I would just use more pale malt ?

[jakeslouw Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jakeslouw]

based on "Brewing Classic Styles" by Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer, (page 120, ESB) it seems the rule of thumb is to take the LME weight and multiply by 1.3 to 1.5 to get the grain weight for each extract. Then fine tune using Beersmith and an all grain setting. As your first all grain batch, maybe set mash efficiency to 60 or 65%.

[pretorjn Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close pretorjn]

This is not my first AG beer. Ust always used a recipe with grain only ingredients [emoji16]

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

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Like I said, just replace with some extra (2Kg) Maris otter or other light base malt

[jakeslouw Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jakeslouw]

This is not my first AG beer. Ust always used a recipe with grain only ingredients [emoji16]

Then you should know your system's efficiency with AG by now.