I am trying to build a new wheat recipe and noticed that my grain inventory does not include red wheat. Is there a way to download new ingredients into Beer Smith? I know I can add them on my own, but I'd rather be able to download a larger amount of ingredients.
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Is there a way to download new ingredients?
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BuckeyeInMI
Really late to this party, but this seemed like the best place to respond rather than starting a new thread.
You can find Red Wheat in the Breiss Add On. But, it's really not necessary. The difference between Red Wheat and standard Wheat Malt, Bel is very small. The Wheat is 2.0 SRM, the Red Wheat is 2.3 SRM, but every thing else is the same. However, even that SRM difference is probably undetectable. Using 15 lbs of Wheat Malt with just a single ounce of Crystal 120 has the same color impact as building your recipe with the Red Wheat profile data. That's how small the difference is.
According to some professional brewers I spoke with, they tend to use Red Wheat more often because it gives the beer a little more mouthfeel, a little more breadiness, and slightly better head retension without any real change to the color.
You can find Red Wheat in the Breiss Add On. But, it's really not necessary. The difference between Red Wheat and standard Wheat Malt, Bel is very small. The Wheat is 2.0 SRM, the Red Wheat is 2.3 SRM, but every thing else is the same. However, even that SRM difference is probably undetectable. Using 15 lbs of Wheat Malt with just a single ounce of Crystal 120 has the same color impact as building your recipe with the Red Wheat profile data. That's how small the difference is.
According to some professional brewers I spoke with, they tend to use Red Wheat more often because it gives the beer a little more mouthfeel, a little more breadiness, and slightly better head retension without any real change to the color.