Dissolving Spray Malt in Boiling water

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Dissolving Spray Malt in Boiling water

Post by Bruce » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:20 pm

Hi

I'm about start a Coopers Wheat Beer, I've bought 1kg of Wheat Spray malt to use instead of sugar. I've read when using sugar it's advisable to dissolve it in a pan of boiling water before adding to the fermentation bucket. Would you advise doing the same for Spray Malt?

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Re: Dissolving Spray Malt in Boiling water

Post by OldSpeckledBadger » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:54 pm

Some say it (spraymalt) tends to clump when added to boiling water (I can vouch for that) and that it's better to add it when the water is a bit cooler which is what I'm going to try on my next brew.
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Re: Dissolving Spray Malt in Boiling water

Post by WishboneBrewery » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:03 pm

What I've done so far is just heat up about 2 Litres of water in a pan until not far from boiling, dump each packet of spray malt in stirring after each, simmer for a few minutes and hey presto... no clumps, lumps or Flumps! (easy way if you are adding extra hops etc too, just strain through a sterilized sieve into the FV)
I then use this to dissolve the kit contents in the FV :)

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Re: Dissolving Spray Malt in Boiling water

Post by Scotty » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:05 pm

I add my boiled water to the FV to dissolve the malt. By the time I've mixed it the temperature has dropped, I then add the sugars a small amount at a time whilst I continue to stir. To date I haven't had a single problem

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Re: Dissolving Spray Malt in Boiling water

Post by legion » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:14 pm

I mixed the spray malt with kit contents in a pan and then gradually added in the 3 Litres of water
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Re: Dissolving Spray Malt in Boiling water

Post by mshergold » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:45 pm

Whatever you do, just make sure you stir it in straight away. I was trying to do two things at one last week and had to fish out lumps and dissolve them in a little wort.

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