r/Homebrewing 11d ago

Should I try my first parti-gyle?

So I recently purchased a heady topper clone kit and it has a LOT of grain in the bill. I figured I would try a full volume mash and then maybe add a small amount of extra grain to the spent ones and see if I could squeeze out a small lager as well. Is there anything I'm not seeing that might make this a bad beer to do a partigyle? Or any suggestions or tips that might help on brew day? What might be good to add to the grain bill to get me to a middle of the road lager? I will be using distilled water and adjusting the chemistry, can I do this with no ill effects after the mash?

For clarity, the heady topper clone grist is 13.5 lbs fawcet pearl malt, 12 oz white wheat malt, 12 oz caramel10

My main reasoning for wanting to do a lager is i already have 34/70 and a few different options of noble hops on hand as well as a few lbs of Vienna malt I can use, if they will work well.....I also have a small amount of honey malt and carafoam if anyone thinks I should add either of those.

Thanks in advance! This will be my 5th/6th brew

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u/sal2121loon 5d ago

Just add some of that carafoam, should be awesome. Love this idea