When to add additional malts?

Discussion on brewing beer from malt extract, hops, and yeast.
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mshergold

Re: When to add additional malts?

Post by mshergold » Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:44 pm

If your book is Brew Your Own British Real Ale, for extract, swap the pale malt for either dry (DME) or liquid (LME) malt extract. The other grains need to go in either the kind of straining bag used by home wine makers, a piece of muslin knotted at the top (or something similar - see the brew-in-a-bag area of the forum for inspiration). Then, place the bag in your boiler at the temperature and for the length of time Graham recomends (this infomation may be in the Techniques section of the book, rather than the recipe section). Don't put your grain in loose as you'll never get it all out. Grain should not be boiled.

You don't need to sanitise your bag/muslin/whatever as your wort will be boiled afterwards. I used to hang the bag over a bowl and then when the grain was cool enough to handle, squeeze the remaining liquid out and add it to the boil.

Hope this helps.

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