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Yesterday I went to the mail box and found the newest copy of BYO (Jan-Feb). Started reading thru the readers mail and found they used my emailed question.
Reason to celebrate!!!
I was asking about how they formulate PM's. They will call out a recipe like this.
For this example just the fermentables, because that's my issue.
3.0 lbs - 2 Row
1/2 lbs 60L Crystal Malt
1/2 lbs Carapils
2lbs 5.3oz Lt LME
.6lbs Lt DME
I'm like WTF!!! Who will attempt to weigh out the LME & DME. The DME isn't so bad.
If you are formulating a recipe why wouldn't you go with 3.3lbs of LME, or increments of 1 & 3 of DME, and then reduce the amount of 2-row to get the gravity/color right? Malt extract is mostly sold in package qty and grains are bulk packaged to exact order qty.
The people who sell kits manage to figure this out. I can do it too in Promash.
Their answer was BS "We do to this to make good quality beer." They go on to say you can't go to whole amounts of specialty grains and hops. Duh!! I wasn't talking about anything other than DME & LME!!
The people who do the conversions are AG'rs (nothing wrong with that) but they don't think of how to make it easy for people who do anything less.
Look at the PM recipes and Extract w/ grain recipes you can tell they came from AG because the only thing in whole amounts are the base grains. (2-Row or 6-Row)
I'm just annoyed they don't realize this. Maybe they don't care?
If you saw this or agree please comment. Thanks!!
Reason to celebrate!!!
I was asking about how they formulate PM's. They will call out a recipe like this.
For this example just the fermentables, because that's my issue.
3.0 lbs - 2 Row
1/2 lbs 60L Crystal Malt
1/2 lbs Carapils
2lbs 5.3oz Lt LME
.6lbs Lt DME
I'm like WTF!!! Who will attempt to weigh out the LME & DME. The DME isn't so bad.
If you are formulating a recipe why wouldn't you go with 3.3lbs of LME, or increments of 1 & 3 of DME, and then reduce the amount of 2-row to get the gravity/color right? Malt extract is mostly sold in package qty and grains are bulk packaged to exact order qty.
The people who sell kits manage to figure this out. I can do it too in Promash.
Their answer was BS "We do to this to make good quality beer." They go on to say you can't go to whole amounts of specialty grains and hops. Duh!! I wasn't talking about anything other than DME & LME!!
The people who do the conversions are AG'rs (nothing wrong with that) but they don't think of how to make it easy for people who do anything less.
Look at the PM recipes and Extract w/ grain recipes you can tell they came from AG because the only thing in whole amounts are the base grains. (2-Row or 6-Row)
I'm just annoyed they don't realize this. Maybe they don't care?
If you saw this or agree please comment. Thanks!!