"Boil The Hops, Not The Malt Extract" By: Steve Bader

[BWN]

I'm just starting to boil, I guess I'll try it and see what happens

 

[Buck33]

Let's us know how it turns out

 

[BWN]

I did it this morning. The final gravity was supposed to be 1.040 but was 1.047. Would adding the extract late affect this? I don't really care too much about getting the same OG as the instructions but I am usually closer than that.

 

[TennBrewer]

"Boil The Hops, Not The Malt Extract" By: Steve Bader

Here's the only guy I've found who comes right out in print and says this--and he's referring to extract, DME/LME; hopped/unhopped, etc.

Bader Beer & Wine Supply

Good article. I normally do all-grain brewing but here in the mid-south, summer temps and humidity can be brutal. I am going to try extract brewing for the summer months and have purchased an extract kit for an American Lager. The kit consists of .5 lbs grains, 3+ lbs, pilsen light LME and 1 lb. pilsen light DME, plus 2 lbs. rice syrup solids. The instructions want you to add all the extracts and boil for an hour. I am thinking here that I would steep the grains in 2.5 gallons of RO water and remove. Bring to a boil and add about a third of the LME plus the bittering hops for 30 minutes, then add the late hops and boil for 5-10 minutes. Pre-mix the DME and rice syrup solids in a gallon of cool RO water to make a slurry and add that to the kettle and mix well. Then, top up with enough cool RO water to make 5 gallons. Chill as much as ground water can do, then refrigerate the wort to pitching temperature of low 50's F, pitch yeast and wait for the magic to happen.
If anyone sees anything wrong with this or has a brilliant suggestion, it would be greatly appreciated. I haven't made beer from extract since the days of can-and-a-kilo so I am hoping this turns out to resemble a lager.

 

[Steveruch]

Good article. I normally do all-grain brewing but here in the mid-south, summer temps and humidity can be brutal. I am going to try extract brewing for the summer months and have purchased an extract kit for an American Lager. The kit consists of .5 lbs grains, 3+ lbs, pilsen light LME and 1 lb. pilsen light DME, plus 2 lbs. rice syrup solids. The instructions want you to add all the extracts and boil for an hour. I am thinking here that I would steep the grains in 2.5 gallons of RO water and remove. Bring to a boil and add about a third of the LME plus the bittering hops for 30 minutes, then add the late hops and boil for 5-10 minutes. Pre-mix the DME and rice syrup solids in a gallon of cool RO water to make a slurry and add that to the kettle and mix well. Then, top up with enough cool RO water to make 5 gallons. Chill as much as ground water can do, then refrigerate the wort to pitching temperature of low 50's F, pitch yeast and wait for the magic to happen.
If anyone sees anything wrong with this or has a brilliant suggestion, it would be greatly appreciated. I haven't made beer from extract since the days of can-and-a-kilo so I am hoping this turns out to resemble a lager.

Depending on whay style you're brewing you can get good results without boiling at all. You get some bitterness at below boiling temperature. Styles that have low IBUs can be made with steeping the hops at 180-200f.

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

I am hoping this turns out to resemble a lager.

When aiming for the lightest color possible, you may want to add all the LME at flame-out. Boil the hops in just the wort made from the steeping grains (like the article suggests).

You may also want to identify the actual initial color of the LME. I suspect one can do this by making a small wort that matches the OG of the beer you are brewing: maybe dissolve the LME in cool water, measure color, then add wort to the kettle at flame-out.

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

Depending on whay style you're brewing you can get good results without boiling at all.

Another option 15 min boils: American Pale Ale - 15 Minute Cascade Pale Ale (2009).