Josh,

This sounds like a pretty tasty recipe.

Things to consider:

All the literature that I have supports that Carapils (Dextrine) should make
up about 5-20% of your total grist. It should yield 1.025-35 SG per pound
(0.5kg) in 60F (15.5C) water. It should also yield 1-2 points SRM toward
the color.

Wheat malt you can use less of, 5-10% of the total grist. It will yield
1.035-40 SG and 0-3 SRM color.

Both alone in those proportions should give you great head retention, or you
can use them both together as you did for your first batch. My only quip is
wheat malt is a chore to hand mill. Otherwise both are about equal in price
(at least here in the states) and both give unique characteristics while
performing the same function.

Like I always say, it's a matter of preference.

Where you aiming for a particular style or just "experimenting"?

Kent


"Josh Button" <melandjosh_nospam_@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> My mate tried out an all grain lager I made and wants in. So we're sharing
> the costs of the next batch.
>
> Here is the recipe:
>
> 4kg pilsner malt
> 500g car-pils malt
> 250g vienna malt
> 250g wheat malt
>
> 25g tettnanger 60mins
> 15g halertau 15mins
>
> WLP802 yeast
>
> Fermented betwen 10-13C, secondary in fridge temps 2.5 months
> Bulk primed with 150g sugar
>
> OG 1.046
> FG 1.005
>
> It is a brilliant pale golden colour with a nice fluffy white head. The
> flavour is spot on for what I want too.
>
> My question is can I achieve the same fluffy white head using only
> cara-pils or wheat malt, and how much of each considering I used 750g
> total this time round.
>
> TIA
>
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