What do you think of this for a dark mild?

Beer Recipes
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Mild Winter Session Ale
Dark Mild
3.0% / 8.2 °P

BIAB (No sparge)
72.9% efficiency

Batch Volume: 1.5 gal
Boil Time: 30 min

Vitals
Original Gravity: 1.033
Final Gravity: 1.010
IBU (Tinseth): 17
Color: 16 SRM

Mash — 158 °F — 30 min

Malts (1 lb 14 oz)
1 lb (53.3%) — Sugar Creek Ye Olde Pale Malt — Grain — 2 °L
5 oz (16.7%) — Briess Caramel Malt — Grain — 44.9 °L
4 oz (13.3%) — BestMalz Biscuit — Grain — 19.3 °L
4 oz (13.3%) — Oats, Flaked — Grain — 1.3 °L
1 oz (3.3%) — Weyermann Carafa Special I — Grain — 236.8 °L

Hops (0.46 oz)
0.23 oz (14 IBU) — Fuggle 4.5% — First Wort
0.23 oz (3 IBU) — Fuggle 4.5% — Boil — 5 min

Salt additions to target BrewFather’s balanced profile.

S-04 in mid 60s.

Bottle condition to about 2 volumes.

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Does that pale malt have enough diastatic power to convert everything else?

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It’s like 115-ish; so it should have the DP to cover everything.

Do you think I should dial back the character grains?  I reduced the base malt and upped the mash temp to lower the ABV.

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This may hit the nail on the head as is for your taste so take this with a grain of salt:

I’d nix the biscuit if it was me. I feel like the English-style malt will give me all the biscuity, bready taste I would need but that’s just me.

I’d also lower the caramel and oat into the single digit % of grain bill range.

I’d make up the changes in base. Again, that’s just me.

Cheers!

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Cool, thanks for the feedback.

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My eye immediately went to the 53% pale malt which seems very low.
To lower abv you can simply reduce the entire grain bill by weight. You could have 90% pale malt but still a similar poundage with obviously lesser amounts of specialy grains.

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Yeah, I followed BrewBama’s recommendation and scaled the character grains back and increased the base malt to get back to my target ABV.

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And in so doing, I have basically reinvented the the grain bill from Drew’s Express Mild from Experimental Homebrewing, just with a little less oats.

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