No time to search. Need quick starter help.

Sorry guys. I'm too busy to search right now, but I have to get my starter going for Friday's brew. I usually use one cup of DME to four cups of water, but my HBS is out of DME. I have 2.2 lbs of LME. How much, by weight preferably, do I use?

Thanks guys.

My 2 cents....nearly 1:1

and it's just a starter...it'll be ok....I think.

LME is about 37ppg. So for a 1.040 starter in a pint of water you would use 2.16oz (by weight) of LME. So, 2oz (by weight) would be good.

By weight or by volume?

I would use about 25% more LME.

Donasay said:

By weight or by volume?

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By weight.

bradsul said:

I would use about 25% more LME.

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I was measuring the DME by volume but I need to measure the LME by weight.

Beerrific said:

LME is about 37ppg. So for a 1.040 starter in a pint of water you would use 2.16oz (by weight) of LME. So, 2oz (by weight) would be good.

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Two ounces of LME to four cups of water then? Seems kind of small, but I'll give it a go. Many thanks.

Seeing that I have over two pounds of this stuff, what's the best way of preserving it for later brews? Refrigerator or freezer?

Fingers said:

Two ounces of LME to four cups of water then? Seems kind of small, but I'll give it a go. Many thanks.

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That was for a pint. I thought you were doing a pint starter, didn't see the "4 cups" in your original post.

My LHBS guy says you need aprox 20% more lme than dme by weight for recipes as a general rule I would think the same thing would apply for a starter.

Probably late to the party now but according to promash you want 140G of LME to get 1.040 in 1L assuming the potential of your LME is 1.035.

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OH FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!

I bought the wrong *&^%*^&% stuff! I bought malt GLUCOSE. What the %^*&^T am i going to do with malt freakin' glucose???? This is the SECOND time I messed up with this batch!!!!

Thanks for your input guys, but it's plan B. Flyguy had suggested in another thread to do a stove top mini-mash with my bag of crushed grain. It's a really good idea so I guess I'll be going with that. Here's the problem now. I've been pushing a few back already and I don't have the french press he suggested here [/FONT] https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?p=735461#post735461

I'll give it a shot by mashing some grains in a pot on the stove and sparging with some cheesecloth. I don't know if Beersmith will do such a small batch so I'll have to do some math to scale my recipe down far enough to make a gallon. Geez, had I known I would have to do that, I would have been more careful with my intake tonight.

I don't normally indulge so much on a weekday, but my recently turned 18 year old son went to the liquor store today to buy himself some beer. He came home with two Kilkenny Irish Red ales and a Guinness. I was already so proud I could spit when he told me that he bought one of the Kilkenny ales for me. So naturally we put those back and started on the homebrew.

That's my boy.