What Is Extract Brewing?
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What Is Extract Brewing?
What is extract brewing exactly?
I know what extract is. Are there any how to videos and what equipment is needed ?
I know what extract is. Are there any how to videos and what equipment is needed ?
Re: What Is Extract Brewing?
Brewing with liquid or dried malt extract instead of grain. You can do this by purchasing pre hopped liquid malt that you just add water and yeast or boil up LME or DME and add you own sometimes with a little bit of steeped grain.
Brew UK do some very good crafty brew kits, all you need it a large pan and ice if possible.
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Brew UK do some very good crafty brew kits, all you need it a large pan and ice if possible.
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Re: What Is Extract Brewing?
You tube is your friend.
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Re: What Is Extract Brewing?
We also have a section on that here - https://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/extract_equipment.htm
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Actually, this page here is the how-to https://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/extract_method.htm
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For various reasons ( mainly not making a very good job of mashing 4kg plus very well in my ancient equipment) I will almost certainly move to extract brewing. I have a question about the need to avoid base malts as surely it would be a simple matter to separately mash a small adjunct of a base malt in a saucepan and then add that small portion of wort to the boil? Specifically I have 100g of wheat malt left that I would rather use than chuck. Presumably the advice was with a view to keeping matters as uncomplicated as possible.
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Extract brewing and all grain brewing are very different.
Even a good extract brewer cannot match the taste of an average pint of all grain. It is worth doing. Worth the learning and the equipment.
Or put another way AG will give commercial piss water a kick in the pants. Extract at best is comparable.
Even a good extract brewer cannot match the taste of an average pint of all grain. It is worth doing. Worth the learning and the equipment.
Or put another way AG will give commercial piss water a kick in the pants. Extract at best is comparable.
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I know that my intended move is retrograde but without going into details it suits the limitations of my equipment and possibly me! My query concerned the possibility of preserving one small aspect of AG.
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What Is Extract Brewing?
http://beersmith.com/blog/2009/03/22/st ... r-brewing/
Although it is also covered in Jim’s link here if you read through that too.
Although it is also covered in Jim’s link here if you read through that too.
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I began brewing with extract before moving to AG.
In my humble opinion, there is a perceivable difference between beers made with LME and those made with DME. The former often have the classic home brew "twang" whereas using DME it is quite possible to produce very good, even excellent beers.
In fact, I took prizes at competitions with extract beers.
My typical method was to boil the hops in plain water and then add the DME to this liquid (diluted to a warm temperature with more water) - usually using a kitchen hand whisk to ensure good mixing and some aeration - before topping up to target volume and pitching yeast. Coloured malts (which don't need mashing) can be added to the boil too.
It certainly made for a short brew day!
At risk of highlighting someone else's brewing site - and maybe irritating Jim - I found a quite useful spreadsheet here: http://www.yobrew.co.uk/petes_yobrew_be ... _v5_0.xlsx
In my humble opinion, there is a perceivable difference between beers made with LME and those made with DME. The former often have the classic home brew "twang" whereas using DME it is quite possible to produce very good, even excellent beers.
In fact, I took prizes at competitions with extract beers.
My typical method was to boil the hops in plain water and then add the DME to this liquid (diluted to a warm temperature with more water) - usually using a kitchen hand whisk to ensure good mixing and some aeration - before topping up to target volume and pitching yeast. Coloured malts (which don't need mashing) can be added to the boil too.
It certainly made for a short brew day!
At risk of highlighting someone else's brewing site - and maybe irritating Jim - I found a quite useful spreadsheet here: http://www.yobrew.co.uk/petes_yobrew_be ... _v5_0.xlsx
Fermenting: nowt
Conditioning: English IPA/Bretted English IPA
Drinking: Sunshine Marmalade, Festbier, Helles Bock, Smokey lagery beer, Irish Export StoutCascade APA (homegrown hops), Orval clone, Impy stout, Duvel clone, Conestoga (American Barley wine)
Planning: Dark Mild, Kozel dark (ish), Simmonds Bitter, Bitter, Citra PA and more!
Conditioning: English IPA/Bretted English IPA
Drinking: Sunshine Marmalade, Festbier, Helles Bock, Smokey lagery beer, Irish Export StoutCascade APA (homegrown hops), Orval clone, Impy stout, Duvel clone, Conestoga (American Barley wine)
Planning: Dark Mild, Kozel dark (ish), Simmonds Bitter, Bitter, Citra PA and more!
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I understand that base malts (and I know that includes wheat malt) need to be mashed and in effect my query was can I just mash separately the wheat malt I would prefer not to waste and add the strained liquid to the extract boil. If terminology has to be applied it would perhaps be a mini partial mash.
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There’s no reason why you can’t, but keeping it simple, just steep the wheat malt in water at about 66c for half an hour or so, remove the grains and bag, then use the resulting water or wort for your brew.Bibinimis wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 3:40 pmI understand that base malts (and I know that includes wheat malt) need to be mashed and in effect my query was can I just mash separately the wheat malt I would prefer not to waste and add the strained liquid to the extract boil. If terminology has to be applied it would perhaps be a mini partial mash.
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Thanks very much.Top Cat wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:08 pmThere’s no reason why you can’t, but keeping it simple, just steep the wheat malt in water at about 66c for half an hour or so, remove the grains and bag, then use the resulting water or wort for your brew.Bibinimis wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 3:40 pmI understand that base malts (and I know that includes wheat malt) need to be mashed and in effect my query was can I just mash separately the wheat malt I would prefer not to waste and add the strained liquid to the extract boil. If terminology has to be applied it would perhaps be a mini partial mash.
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Sorry I missed your real question. The answer is yes you can.Bibinimis wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 3:40 pmI understand that base malts (and I know that includes wheat malt) need to be mashed and in effect my query was can I just mash separately the wheat malt I would prefer not to waste and add the strained liquid to the extract boil. If terminology has to be applied it would perhaps be a mini partial mash.
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Do you not find that even with DME (and I agree much better that LME) they seem to loose their 'middle' ?Cobnut wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:10 amI began brewing with extract before moving to AG.
In my humble opinion, there is a perceivable difference between beers made with LME and those made with DME. The former often have the classic home brew "twang" whereas using DME it is quite possible to produce very good, even excellent beers.
In fact, I took prizes at competitions with extract beers.
My typical method was to boil the hops in plain water and then add the DME to this liquid (diluted to a warm temperature with more water) - usually using a kitchen hand whisk to ensure good mixing and some aeration - before topping up to target volume and pitching yeast. Coloured malts (which don't need mashing) can be added to the boil too.
It certainly made for a short brew day!
At risk of highlighting someone else's brewing site - and maybe irritating Jim - I found a quite useful spreadsheet here: http://www.yobrew.co.uk/petes_yobrew_be ... _v5_0.xlsx