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Hi,

I'm preparing to make a Coopers Mexican Cerveza kit which calls for brew enhancer 2 ( which i forgot to buy).

I do have 1kg of plain light malt extract (spray-malt) and a bucket of dextrose. I'm having a hard time determining how i can use these as a substitute for BE2 - specifically the ratio of the sugar to DME.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
Skitch said:
Hi,

I'm preparing to make a Coopers Mexican Cerveza kit which calls for brew enhancer 2 ( which i forgot to buy).

I do have 1kg of plain light malt extract (spray-malt) and a bucket of dextrose. I'm having a hard time determining how i can use these as a substitute for BE2 - specifically the ratio of the sugar to DME.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Just use your lme. The sugar in the brew enhancer just increases the abv and the malto only adds to the body. Just substituting lme for it should give you a close enough end result. Sub them for equal parts lme to brewenhancer
 
Cooper's Brew Enhancer 2 is a mixture of dextrose,maltodextrin,& light DME. You could just use a mix of dextrose & light DME you have to get close.
I forget the amounts exactly,but it's like 60% dextrose,20% maltodextrin,& 20% light DME. I'd just mix dextrose & light DME 50/50. It'll turn out a tad more malty that way.
 
I made up the Coopers Mexican Cerveza kit with a 1kg Munton's Beer Kit Enhancer (half DME, half detrose) + another 200 grams of dextrose. This works out to 500g DME, 700g dextose (and if you recognize that as the combination Craig from Craigtube uses in a lot of his beers then you watch the some of the same youtube videos I do). It turned out pretty good.

Having said that I prefer the Canadian Blonde Kit (with the same DME/dextrose addition) over the Mexican Cerveza Kit. That's right, I show my Canadian patriotism by favoring one Australian beer kit over another.
 
DaNewf said:
I made up the Coopers Mexican Cerveza kit with a 1kg Munton's Beer Kit Enhancer (half DME, half detrose) + another 200 grams of dextrose. This works out to 500g DME, 700g dextose (and if you recognize that as the combination Craig from Craigtube uses in a lot of his beers then you watch the some of the same youtube videos I do). It turned out pretty good.

Having said that I prefer the Canadian Blonde Kit (with the same DME/dextrose addition) over the Mexican Cerveza Kit. That's right, I show my Canadian patriotism by favoring one Australian beer kit over another.
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This is what i do too.
 
Awesome - thanks for all of the advice! Looks like i have a few combinations to try :)
 

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