Briess carapils is a very unique malt, produced by one of  North America's most prestigious maltsters. It simply adds body, head retention and beer stability without making any other contributions to flavor, color or aroma. This makes it a wonderful malt to use when fine tuning recipes that are lacking in body, stability or head retention. Carapils can be used at a rate of up to 5% of the total grist. It is also often used in extract brewing to add these characteristics to extract beers.