Muntons Craft your Own Liquid Malt Extract

[achaddy]

The Muntons craft your own range has been mentioned on here before but not ant any great length other than they exist.
They look like they provide an easy way for Kit/Extract brewers to design recipies outside of the standard box kits and develope something of their own design.
There is also the recipie designer https://homebrew.muntons.com/ which helps put basic recipies together suggesting ingredients to make certain beer types.

Malt Millers have also done a review, coming up with 2 different recipies of their own which seemed to work well and they claimed to be pleased with the results. (I have no affiliation to them although do purchase from them.)

Now, I am not sure I am ever going to have the time to go AG any time soon but this looks like I will be able experiment coming up with bespoke beers of my own design.

So I was thinking if anyone has used these to make their own recipies or even AG brewers could suggest recipies based on their experience.

I have recently wanted to see if I could recreate Verdant Lightbulb IPA and so I came up with this, taking direction from the AG recipies discussed on this forum.

Muntons Craft Your Own - Maris Otter Light Extract - 1.5kg
Muntons Craft Your Own - Vienna Extract - .75kg (Half tin)
Muntons Craft Your Own - Oat Extract - .75kg (Half tin)

Hallertauer Magnum - BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellet 6gms
Simcoe T90 Pellets 100 gms
Centennial - BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets 60gms

LALBREW® VERDANT IPA Dried Yeast 11g

I havent yet brewed this. Have all the incredients sat on my shelf currently but I want to try to recreate some of the Mash hopping stuff. So my planned method is:

Bring 2ltrs of water to a boil, add half a tin of one of the LMEs add the Magnum hops and boil for 20 mins.
Turn of the heat and add 20gms each of Simcoe and Centenial. Allow to cool for 45 mins
Strain the wort into the FV.
Add the remaining LME ingredients and water up to 20ish Ltrs. Aiming for an SG of 1.045-1.050. ABV 4.5-5%
Add Harris Clear brew.
Pitch Yeast at 22-23C.
Brew in the brewfridge at around 20-21C.
Add the remaining hops after 4-5 days to dry hop.
The brew will be bottled so will add 1/2 tspn sugar to 500ml bottle.

Fingers crossed this turns out something that resembles Lightbulb. Even if it doesn't hopefully it will taste great. Where I have only used half a tim of LME i plan to freeze the rest to use in a recipie later.
Intersted in thoughts on this and any other suggestions people may have.

 

[achaddy]

I now have this in the FV.
I boiled the 2 half tins with the hops for 20 mins.
I only waited 30mins for the hop stand.
When it was all mixed and topped up it smelt good so really looking forward to see how this turns out.

 

[Bitter_Dave]

Let us know how it turns out :)

 

[MashBag]

Thanks for this. I like what muntons have done here. It's not quite a recipe designer more a shopping cart designer. But all the same a good idea.

If you use search many people pimp & mix kits. Tucan (two cans) is a useful word.

Not having time for AG. Eh? all been there. I haven't either.
If I said I spend not more than 1 hour a day on 4 separate days, would that fit?
Put another way... Don't be put off by stories of 7 hour brewdays.

 

[Caramel Ox]

I like the idea as well but I wonder why they don’t move all hopping to extracts as well and combine bittering and flavouring additions to style. Then a boil could be avoided entirely.

 

[Laner]

This is very interesting.

 

[MashBag]

I like the idea as well but I wonder why they don’t move all hopping to extracts as well and combine bittering and flavouring additions to style. Then a boil could be avoided entirely.

That's very good point.

 

[Rodcx500z]

Muntons do un hopped and hopped LME, or you could do a hop tea so you do not need to boil, then dry hop as normal

 

[MrRook]

Muntons Craft Your Own - Maris Otter Light Extract - 1.5kg
Muntons Craft Your Own - Vienna Extract - .75kg (Half tin)
Muntons Craft Your Own - Oat Extract - .75kg (Half tin)

I wish these were available in the States.

 

[Bitter_Dave]

Been having a play. Seems alright but recipes suggest Muntons gold yeast, which they no longer make.

They also bulk up ingredients with white sugar to achieve gravities where necessary. For example relatively low gravity beer that needs one but not two cans of extract involves adding 1kg of white sugar. Not ideal. Bit of sugar is ok in the right context, but not this amount and not in this context. Better off using dried malt extract in such circumstances where you need an awkward amount, but they ignore this option as it is presumably seen as too complicated. Also, only some extracts have a hopped version.

But it is cool to see a wider variety of extracts though, including Munich and Vienna malts.

But to be honest, I think tweaking kits makes more sense.

 

[Rodcx500z]

I do tweaked Simply kits in winter when it is to cold to brew outside, 1.8kg simply bitter kit 1kg of DME light or medium 250g of dem sugar gives just over 3kg of fermentables, brew to 20L, it is pretty good you could even dry hop if you like