Best place to buy DME?

[cwiseman77]

Any suggestions of a good place to buy DME, I swear it's going upin price, close to 7 quid a kilo most places now. The malt miller is one of the cheapest but out of stock of light dme

 

[pittsy]

£14 for 3kg at the homebrew company above , extract is the most expensive to brew . If you have pots big enough for extract brewing then i'll not be long before all grain , all grain is the cheapest beer to brew (not including equipment of course) and gets the best results (most times)

 

[cwiseman77]

£14 for 3kg at the homebrew company above , extract is the most expensive to brew . If you have pots big enough for extract brewing then i'll not be long before all grain , all grain is the cheapest beer to brew (not including equipment of course) and gets the best results (most times)

Cheers Pittsy, that's by far cheapest I've found. Extract is definitely quite expensive (still a lot cheaper than actually buying beer!) and I would love to go AG, unfortunately there is no way }I have the space for it right now. Still looking for a house with 2nd bedroom, garden, shed etc.... then I can go over to the dark side AND get a dog!

 

[wilsoa1111]

agreed AG is great but the 3 extra hours min it takes to mix mash and sparge and then the cleanup makes it quite time expensive,

dont get me wrong love it, but can see why extract is so popular,

best place i found to get DME was WHS but sadly their out of stock atm -was £4 a kilo!

cheapest option is a jerry can of LME from one of the sponsors, if u can use it up sharpish or have space to freeze it ur onto a winner

 

[LeithR]

Why don't you try BIAB (Brew in a Bag) this approach gives you the AG but without the need to sparge etc so from a time perspective its a fairly quick activity and you only need 1 pot which acts as both your Mash tun and your boiler.

 

[cwiseman77]

Why don't you try BIAB (Brew in a Bag) this approach gives you the AG but without the need to sparge etc so from a time perspective its a fairly quick activity and you only need 1 pot which acts as both your Mash tun and your boiler.

Yeah I think that's definately the next step for me, just need a bigger pot and a big strawstring bag....I think there's a good "How-To" on here somewhere

 

[windymiller]

Any suggestions of a good place to buy DME, I swear it's going upin price, close to 7 quid a kilo most places now.

Again it begs the question of why we pay so much for it in the UK.

http://www.brewshop.co.nz/light-dry-malt-extract.html NZ$11.95 a kilo equates to £6.60. Not far off the £7 a kilo mentioned, but much of the malts sold in NZ are of UK origin and have had to be exported half way round the world. Why then are they still cheaper than buying them in the UK?

LME's have a bigger differential. It costs about 60% of the price in the UK, to buy the same UK produced LME in NZ! :hmm:

 

[cwiseman77]

it does seem very expensive. It can be almost as much as a whole kit! Anyone know why DME is so expensive?

 

[pittsy]

In short , Thatchers children , what's the most people will pay we will charge it . :evil:

 

[cwiseman77]

In short , Thatchers children , what's the most people will pay we will charge it . :evil:

It really is the legacy that keeps on giving

 

[RobWalker]

check LHBS too, mine charge £2.30 per 500g. I find it gets a lot cheaper if you brew to 20L instead of 23L...

 

[cwiseman77]

check LHBS too, mine charge £2.30 per 500g. I find it gets a lot cheaper if you brew to 20L instead of 23L...

Unfortunately my closest HBS is Edinburgh, not exactly worth the petrol but if I'm ever in the city and have a spare half hour I'll be popping in.

 

[RobWalker]

blimey, that's a whack, hahah. yeah, it's well worth getting a few brew's worth if you can get a good price!

 

[andyakameatloaf]

My nearest HBS is BrewMart (http://www.thebrewmart.com), and even then it is almost halfway between Sheffield and Chesterfield. There isn't a proper stockist (except a badly equipped Wilko's) in the centre anywhere, and BrewMart charge £3.96/500g for spraymalt and also do not stock any higher quantities than 500g.

I feel your pain, sir :cry:

 

[Brewed_Force]

Crossmyloof do DME 500g for £3.95 including delivery if you buy a few bags.

 

[Tommo 2]

The home brew company is still the best place I can find to buy DME from , they sell three kilos of all varieties for £15 , at five pounds for a kilo surly unbeatable IMO