tiredofbuyingbeer
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I've seen it claimed before that one drawback of brewing with extract is that you don't really know what you're getting, since (it is alleged) extract companies put any number of mysterious things--maybe caramel malt, maybe adjuncts--into their extracts. Is that really true? I mean, there are spec sheets like this one. Is the idea that they might mean anything by entries like "pilsen malt"? (In the case of Breiss Pilsen DME, a natural assumption would be that they mean that they use Breiss's Pilsen malt.) Or that maybe these companies are lying? Or is the claim that you don't know what you're really getting when you use malt extract from a company like Breiss or Muntons just false?