Substituting Caramalt

[Rowang]

Hi guys,

Planning on doing this recipe over the weekend: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32253#p347273

Unfortunately, my finger slipped on the order, and i've ended up with caragold, instead of the caramalt that the recipe calls for!

Im battling between...

1. Substituting caramalt with caragold
2. Substituting caramalt with carapils
3. Substituting with Vienna
4. Substituting with more MO to get up to the OG

At the moment 2 is winning!! Will it impart enough sweetness though?

.. Ideally didnt want to mess with the original recipe idea too much, so which will have the most similar characteristics to carry off a pale hoppy session beer?

Cheers!!

[jimp2003]

Hi Rowang.

I have used the caragold as a sub for caramalt in a couple of recipes and could not honestly tell the difference.

[gnutz2]

I would sub it with carapils, really your just adding more body with a crystal malt this light.

[weiht]

From my understanding caramalt is a British light crystal in the range of 10-15 lovibond. Other maltsters in other countries have their own proprietary equivalent named differently ie carahell n caragold n cara-withintherangeof10-15L.. Carapils however is different in that it gives body without much impact on flavour or colour, whereas caramalt does. It may be negliable depending on the amount used.

But I wld not use Vienna or mo as a sub as all cara malts are non fermentables.