Bulk LME question

[Cozzyb]

Hi everyone, quick question

I bought the 25kg of Light LME from The Home Brew Shop yesterday, and I decided this was the best way to make beer almost as cheap as AG without the time consuming process and mess (Parents were flipping at me about making a mess etc) so my plan is as follows, obviously most people would use the required LME types for beers, i.e. wheat lme, dark lme etc etc, however I can't do this on the cheap, so would it be possible to do the following:

Make a batch of beer using an AG recipe i.e. if I wanted wheat beer, make a small mash of 1kg of wheat which would be easier to do and less mess, mash for just long enough to get some extraction and flavour i.e. 30 mins - 1 hour and then boil this plus some LME with hops for 1 hour, and then add more LME to the boil at the end, and then add water as normal with extract, the idea being I still have the characteristics of a wheat beer, but using light LME for the sugars.

And for beers which don't need any mashable grains, i.e. only need crystal etc, I could steep as normal and add to lme and hops

Would this work as I am thinking it should?

Thanks.

[crafty john]

You might as well go ag with all the faffing around you are intending to do

[Cozzyb]

Not really faffing about, I already AG (quite a lot lately) so have the grain already, and really a 3/4 hour brew day plus all the prep is much harder and annoying then just mini mashing/steeping and adding some LME....
And after seeing the Yanks talk about how good extract can be if its fresh, I decided to save myself the time tbh.

[jimp2003]

What you propose is partial mash brewing i.e producing part of your fermentables using grain in a mini-mash and then the rest from extract. Its a great method that allows extract brewers to use some of the malts that need to be mashed rather than just being limited to those that can be steeped.

[Cozzyb]

What you propose is partial mash brewing i.e producing part of your fermentables using grain in a mini-mash and then the rest from extract. Its a great method that allows extract brewers to use some of the malts that need to be mashed rather than just being limited to those that can be steeped.

ahh so there is a name for it thank you.