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See Section 4.1 of their FAQs ("product questions"). It's actually 34ppg that they list, so it takes 1.294 pounds of this LME to equal the ppg of the Briess DME. The comparison to Briess DME is $2.54 per pound-equivalent, which makes it very close -- not really worth considering more...

Remember that LME contains a lot of water weight. That williams site says that their LME is worth 32 gravity points ("degrees") per pound of extract in each gallon. Briess claims 44ish for their pilsen light DME, which I get at around $2.30-2.50 depending on shipping. 44/32 = 1.375, which is...

Wow -- great link! I would totally do this if I knew a few dedicated extract brewers who'd split with me -- they all think I'm nuts for getting 50# at a time even though I can get through it in 3-6 months easy. I'm sadly the most active extract brewer I know, as anyone more into it than me...

yea. . . sounds pretty old for the price -- you should check out HOPSDIRECT.com. They have PLENTY of hops that will come out to LESS than $1/lb even after shipping to PA, and there's no way anything they sell you is over a year old. Only catch is you have to buy a whole pound of each variety...

------------------- If you mean the choice of light/xl/pils DME + steeped/partial mashed grain vs. using amber and dark DME, then I say only to look at any All Grain recipe here. You'll see that you only need a small amount of specialty grains and a majority of base malt -- so just use your...

Yeah, using x-light dme and the appropriate steeped or mini-mashed specialty grains is definately the way to go for extract brewing. Apparently the breiss pilsen dme here is even lighter than xl -- for those saisons/pilseners/golden ales, yet you can still get your stouts dark as they need...

Can't believe nobody's shown much interest in this recipe -- I think this will be a perfect use for my saison dupont bottle culture (if it works. . . ), which I intended to use on a dubbel anyway . . . The fruit sounds like a great idea though

2nd that -- they have a horrible website and you have to do it by phone, but I just ordered 50LB briess pilsen light DME for $98+17.50 tax to mid OH. That's $2.31/# to my door! I think the explanation on this place is that they aren't so much a homebrew mega mart as they are a true...

LOL, yea, on second thought the strange growing bitterness probably had more to do with that hydrometer reading I took by dunking the hydrometer tube into the primary along with a couple of my fingers. Learned my lesson and got a turkey baster the next day

my first beer, a recipe kit for a ~4.5% ABV brown ale, got more and more grossly bitter as it aged (only 5 weeks in the bottle before i finished it all, at which point it was getting pretty bad). I attributed the creeping bitterness to not straining the pellet hops out of my wort prior to...

oh crap, ps, forgot to mention I added 8oz. lactose to boil at 20min to go -- one of the most important sweetness factors no doubt.

Here's a recipe I just bottled last week -- i brewed it as a last batch before my bulk shipment of cheap hops came from hopsdirect. It was raining and i couldn't fight the urge to brew up a batch, but didn't want to waste money on full price LHBS hops, so I tried to stretch just 1oz...