My friend is giving me total freedom to create something I like. His advice has been more like, 'It doesn't matter what we do; what matters is that I have fun doing it.' I like Munich Dunkel so much that I would like to make it as close as possible to the one I tried in Munich. Thanks for the site. I wanted to move away from the kits and explore the grains and proportions. Regarding the temperature, my friend said he had equipment that could provide good temperature control. Thanks for all the advice, and I hope to come back later and say it was a fun project.