Help needed please.

[matthew_pullin]

I have come across a 500g bag of Amber Crushed Malt and have no idea what to do with it. Is this on its own enough to make a batch? If so how is the best way of doing this?
Or can i add it into my tried and tested kit brewing? once again if so what do i have to do to get the best results from this? I have a Coopers Selection IPA on standby.

If the answer is no to both of the above does anyone in the Leeds area want a bag of Amber Crushed Malt??

Thanks for the help.

 

[RobWalker]

hahah. you could steep about 200g in a few liters of hot water for 20 mins and add it to one of your kits. it's suited to english bitters, it adds a slightly roasty toffee coffee sorta taste :thumb:

 

[matthew_pullin]

brilliant! whats the best way of filtering all the tiny bits out after steeping? can i use a sieve or do i have to get a muslin bag to do this? or a tea towel hahaha.

 

[LeedsBrewer]

Rob shhh! No mate you can't do owt with it... honest... though i know someone who'd take it off yer hands...

As rob said, get steeping. A muslin or steeping bag would be good. you can get them from Abbey homebrew in kirkstall or in morley home brew shop. Both very good though i prefer the morley one. Or you could use a clean football sock?? an old net curtain?? whatever you want really. Boil the bag for 10mins in water first, add you grains and get steeping. Oh and the coopers IPA was my first batch. It's getting better with age.

 

[Pawlo7671]

I do this regular to kits and extract brews and sometimes just do a combination of all 3, it's beer at the end of the day you really can't mess it up !
I use muslin bags but last time I steeped 500g of black malt I used a pillow case and it worked a treat.
I steep grains 67c. heat your water up to around 72c before adding the grains to compensate for the strike temp, cover as well as you can ( quilt works best ) and leave for up to an hour.
Towards the end of that time heat a couple more litres of water up to 70c, lift the grain bag out of the pot and put in a strainer, now pour water which you just heated through the grain bag to wash the grains, add kit and other fermentables and job done.

 

[matthew_pullin]

Thanks for the great advice, i cant find anything to put the malt in so im off to the brew shop this weekend. I figured i may as well go the whole hog and try a bit of hopping? is it wise to add the hops at the same time as steeping the malt? sorta make a hop/malt tea and then proceed with the kit.

Could anybody recommend a suitable hop variety for the combination of the IPA kit and amber malt?

Thanks muchly!