I've used Carafoam, I like it, it's in my BoPils recipe. I'd be super interested in a 100% carafoam batch. 

Word is Breiss Carapils can be steeped, but Weyermann's Carafoam must be mashed... likely because it has diastatic power left. Go for it Matt! :)

100% Carafoam??

Oh man, don't give homebrewdad any ideas--last year's BU Challenge was wacky enough!

Hehe.

New rule: homebrewdad has to make one of his abominations according to his own goofball rules or we get to use whatever malt we want :)

Goofball rules, fabulous prizes. It's what makes our comp different.

I'd just hate to deprive you of the, uh, *joy* of making one of the styles with your rules.

Anybody can brew something out of Brewing Classic Styles. That's why our comp is a "challenge".

I will say that Carafoam > Carapils by a very long shot. Between Carafoam and Carahell, these seem to be the most popular specialty malts in German home brewing, and bring a hint of melanoiden flavors to the table. We have a very successful gentleman that just spent the last 12 years in Munich, and he has a long list of recipes + techniques that results in incredibly flavorful light lagers, including my now favorite helles. I am planning to use some of his recipes in my next few brews... with his permission. I will step mash - he reverse decocts (I think that is right). It should allow us to compare. I also build water - he uses filtered Austin water (good stuff).

Trying to picture a SMaSH Carafoam + Mittlefrue lager... 1 finger beer, the rest of the glass foam?

The beer actually rests on top of the foam. Any chance we could take a look at the recipes?

Actually thinking about doing a series of interviews with folk like him... see if I can pull up a recipe or three. 

This guys terrifies me in competitions and has already started to pull a large amount of medal swag locally.

This is the thing that drives me nuts: recipes are only like 10% of what goes into a beer, there's hardly any value in holding onto them like trade secrets. But I publish just about every recipe I brew, so what do I know?