About to brew my first Cooper's Wheat Beer...
According to their website, ingredients include:
1.7kg can Thomas Coopers Wheat Beer
500g Light Dry Malt
300g Dextrose
I visited a local homebrew store and mentioned I wanted to replace the dextrose with some DME and I was handed 1.25 kg of CBW Bavarian Wheat DME...
Now, if my calculations are correct, I should assume the following:
500g (Light Dry Malt) can be substituted by 500g of my DME and the 300g of Dextrose can be substituted for 360g of DME (assuming a 1.2x rate of Dex vs DME)...
This should total 500g + 360g = 860g of DME total...
Is this accurate? Would the balance in my brew be thrown off if I just add a firm 1 kg of DME and use the remaining 250g for carbonating later? (I don't plan to have any hop additions)
Thanks for any clarification!
*EDIT* .. I just stumbled across a breakdown of the specific DME I bought: http://www.brewingwithbriess.com/Assets/PDFs/Briess_PISB_CBWBavarianWheatDME.pdf
According to their website, ingredients include:
1.7kg can Thomas Coopers Wheat Beer
500g Light Dry Malt
300g Dextrose
I visited a local homebrew store and mentioned I wanted to replace the dextrose with some DME and I was handed 1.25 kg of CBW Bavarian Wheat DME...
Now, if my calculations are correct, I should assume the following:
500g (Light Dry Malt) can be substituted by 500g of my DME and the 300g of Dextrose can be substituted for 360g of DME (assuming a 1.2x rate of Dex vs DME)...
This should total 500g + 360g = 860g of DME total...
Is this accurate? Would the balance in my brew be thrown off if I just add a firm 1 kg of DME and use the remaining 250g for carbonating later? (I don't plan to have any hop additions)
Thanks for any clarification!
*EDIT* .. I just stumbled across a breakdown of the specific DME I bought: http://www.brewingwithbriess.com/Assets/PDFs/Briess_PISB_CBWBavarianWheatDME.pdf