ChefyTim

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Hey,

I am planning on making a chocolate brew but all the recipes I have found are using a DME. I am pretty new to AG but want to do the recipe as an AG.

How would I convert say 6 lbs. of DME to an AG?

Thanks,
Tim

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With BeerSmith.
Or look at the gravity rating of the extract and the malt.

if the DME is 1040 and the Malt is 1035

6*40=240
240/35=6.857

So 6lb of DME or 6.857 Malt

to check the math.
35/40=0.875 or the malt has 87.5% of the gravity potential of the DME
(6/87.5)*100=6.857

Or like I say, with BeerSmith.

You obviously have to plug you own figures in.

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I think its going to be more than that because with DME you get all the gravity points and with grain a percentage. In Promash DME is 1.046 and generic pale malt is 1.036. The conversion to grain is 10 pounds at 75% efficiency. Batch size is 5 gallons.

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I wouldn't try to take efficiency into consideration though. Grain has a known potential for gravity...go with that, and then maybe add an extra half pound.

you can do roughly 1.3lbs of grain to replace a pound of DME. and 1.25lbs of grain to replain a pound of LME.

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My figures are examples, not actuals.

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