No carapils or centenial to do jante's brown - substitutions

[randini]

Hi all. Kind of a noob here and want to have a go at Tasty's Janet's brown, the classic version. I have bought all the ingredients for the AG recipie but none of the homebrew shops here in Chile have any carapils (or carafoam or dextrine) malts in stock. I also cannot find any centenial hops for the dryhopping.

Do you have any ideas on substitutions for these that would result in something that still tastes as close to a JBA as I can get?
Cheers

[BDawg]

Instead of carapils, I would use wheat malt instead and raise the mash temp by 1/2 degree Celsius.

Instead of Centennial, substitute 1 part Chinook and 3 parts Cascade.
So, if you need 60 grams of Centennial, use 15 grams of Chinook and 45 grams of Cascade.

You can ignore the %AA differences when dry hopping.

HTH-

[brewinhard]

I remember Tasty commenting on Janets Brown ale hop lineup and saying that even Simcoe and Amarillo would be subs in there as well.

[randini]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

Quick question, the recipe already has over 6% wheat malt in it. Subbing more wheat for the carapils would push the wheat to just over 14%. Isn't that a bit much? Would it start tasting wheaty?

[brewinhard]

If you are that concerned about it, then you could always sub in some maltodextrin powder (if you can source it) for the carapils. Maybe a 1/2 pound would suffice. If not, then I would just go ahead and brew it as is without any added malts and maybe bump the mash temp up a couple degrees to compensate.

[BDawg]

+1

I forgot that there was already wheat in there. Just sub more 2 row and mash a little warmer.
It will be fine.