Has anyone ever made their own LME? Since I don't have the room for a big enough setup to do full AG, I was thinking about trying to make some LME ahead of time and can it myself to save some $$. Just curious...
I guess making LME isn't exactly what I am looking to do, let me see if I can clarify.
Grain to extract conversion is 1lb grain to 0.75 lbs syrup, right? So if I had a 5 gallon recipe with 8 lbs pale malt I would instead use 6 lbs pale extract. What if I made that 5 gallons with the grain, then just boiled the bajeebus out of it for a few hours so that it was vastly more concentrated, so what would go into 5 gallons would instead be in 1-2 gallons.
Its actually starting to sound like more work than it's worth, but still something that might be interesting to try.
To make enought extract for a full batch of beer you'll have to have full batch all-grain setup.
On an unrelated note, I would love to hear how your Jamaica beer turns out. I've been thinking doing one myself.
I'm confused -- if you don't have the space for AG, how would making LME work? because LME is basically concentrated AG ---- you start with AG then concentrate it down to LME.
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