Peptobylsma
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Hi everyone. I’ve been doing a lot of reading about homebrewing and decided I’m ready to give it a shot. For my first batch, I am using Charlie Pap’s beginner ale recipe from The Joy of Homebrewing that calls for:
5-6 pounds hop-flavored malt extract or “beer kit”
Or
3-4 pounds hop-flavored malt extract plus 1-2 pounds plain unhopped light dried malt extract
I was looking on Northern Brewer at the Muntons Wheat Hopped Kit, which comes in a 4 lb can. The website also notes that the kit requires an additional 2 lbs of DME to reach the intended SG. I’m pretty confident that this is just the second part of the above recipe, but I’m curious to know whether you could (or if you would even want to) just buy two cans of a LME and forego the DME. Basically, could I just buy two cans of the Muntons Wheat Hopped Kit, measure 6 pounds, and get to the same endpoint, but obviously with different flavors, or do you pretty much always want DME to go in with LME? I guess I’m confused because on other websites, not each kit has that note about needing extra DME to get to the SG, and wasn’t sure if there was a set “standard” per se.
Thanks in advance!
5-6 pounds hop-flavored malt extract or “beer kit”
Or
3-4 pounds hop-flavored malt extract plus 1-2 pounds plain unhopped light dried malt extract
I was looking on Northern Brewer at the Muntons Wheat Hopped Kit, which comes in a 4 lb can. The website also notes that the kit requires an additional 2 lbs of DME to reach the intended SG. I’m pretty confident that this is just the second part of the above recipe, but I’m curious to know whether you could (or if you would even want to) just buy two cans of a LME and forego the DME. Basically, could I just buy two cans of the Muntons Wheat Hopped Kit, measure 6 pounds, and get to the same endpoint, but obviously with different flavors, or do you pretty much always want DME to go in with LME? I guess I’m confused because on other websites, not each kit has that note about needing extra DME to get to the SG, and wasn’t sure if there was a set “standard” per se.
Thanks in advance!