Newbie help spray malt!

[ktm phil]

Ok, brew day has arrived and it would seem I don't actually know what I'm doing!

Kit is wood fords werry. It says nothing on the box about adding sugar to the fermenting bin, but on the spray malt packet it says to add as a direct replacement for sugar?

Therefore, do I add spray malt to the bin and if so how much, and do I add spray malt when bottling instead of sugar and is a rate of one teaspoon per litre correct.

Thank you for reading and for your help!

 

[Mike1981]

Hi, i used to do kit lagers and there were instructions inside the top of the tin. The sugar added was 1kg, if i swapped it with spray malt it is like you say, a straight swap. As for priming into bottles, its 1tsp sugar for lagers and approx 1/2tsp for ales. (or you could batch prime, making it easier)
Hope that helps
Im sure someone whos done one of those kits will be along to confirm or put right :thumb:

 

[doghouse gav]

Is it a 1 can or 2 can kit? If it's a 2 can you don't need to add any sugar yo brew. The cans contain enough sugars in them. You just need to add "priming" sugar when you come to bottle or keg. :

 

[ktm phil]

Hi. It's a two can kit, so by the sounds of it I just add the spray malt when bottling?

 

[aneray]

Agree with Gav, no extra sugar required for the kit.

The only problem with Wherry kits is that they are a bugger to get down to the final gravity.

When it comes down to bottling or kegging your brew, just use normal white granulated sugar.

 

[ktm phil]

Thank you.

Is there any mileage in using half spray malt and half sugar when bottling for a bit of extra 'maltiness'?

 

[shearclass]

Thank you.

Is there any mileage in using half spray malt and half sugar when bottling for a bit of extra 'maltiness'?

Best off just using normal sugar for bottling, much cheaper, and i don't think you can taste the difference in such small quantities.

You could add spray malt to the wherry kit if you wanted to try and make it stronger, but there is no need to do so, and indeed by doing so it may muck up the flavour of the kit anyway.

I wold say just keep the spray malt for another day, when you do a 1 tin kit. In this quantitty, you will definately be able to taste the difference between using sugar and spray malt.

Up to you though.

 

[luckyeddie]

Agree with not bothering with spraymalt for bottling - Woodford's Wherry is a pretty malty beer anyway and one teaspoon per litre more or less is going to make no difference. Ordinary Tate & Lyle is fine.