Liquid Malt Extract

[Birchy]

Evening
I'm a relative newbie to home brew and the forum. I've just bought a Youngs definitive bitter and reading various reviews people suggest swapping the sugar out for malt extract. My question is how much malt extract for the 1kg of sugar?
Is it as easy as 1kg for 1kg?
Cheers
Mark

 

[davecullen86]

Hi Mark, yep, the usual rule is that you can swap out the sugar / dextrose for the same weight of DME. A lot of people do 70/30 mix, you can buy brew enhancer which is actually a mix of the 2... Cheers

 

[davecullen86]

sorry I just realised you mentioned liquid malt extract. Yes the same applies to that too :-) Its usually bought in 1kg tins, so no need for dextrose..

 

[Slid]

Evening
I'm a relative newbie to home brew and the forum. I've just bought a Youngs definitive bitter and reading various reviews people suggest swapping the sugar out for malt extract. My question is how much malt extract for the 1kg of sugar?
Is it as easy as 1kg for 1kg?
Cheers
Mark

My suggestion is a 5&7. 500g DME and 700g table sugar. Simple, but works. :drink:

 

[Birchy]

Thanks for the replies guys.

 

[cornyandy]

I've occasionally added malt extract at a 1:1 replacement and also added 50% of the brewing sugar to fairly basic kits, it seems to work. I also like to add a handful of dry hops in a muslin bag into FV in this scenario too.

 

[DoctorMick]

If you do swap 1 for 1 you'll need to be aware you'll end up with a weaker beer and the final gravity will be higher than the kit suggests as LME isn't as fermentable as sugar. You will end up with a much better beer tho as the none fermentables add body to your beer.

 

[Birchy]

So should I also add any sugar?

 

[ManseMasher]

https://www.jaysbrewing.com/2011/11/17/lazy-chart-for-converting-dme-lme-grain/

http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=39721

My understanding is that because LME has some water in it you do need slightly more.

 

[clibit]

If I remember right, to replace 1kg of sugar, you need either 1.2kg dried extract or 1.5kg liquid extract.

I think slid's advice of using 500g DME and 700g table sugar with a one can kit is not a bad idea. Depends on how much body you want in the beer, sugar reduces the body, 700g will reduce it quite a bit. But light bodied beers are very popular, Corona, Bud etc. They use corn sugar or rice to reduce the body. Brewing Sugar is corn sugar. Another alternative would be to use 1kg DME and a bit of sugar, 200g perhaps. A lot of beers have that sort of proportion of sugar added.