First batch/ Muntons Amber beer kit

[rdog157h]

I bought my beer equipment today and I also bought a Muntons beer ingredient kit. The instructions are vague and it seems like to much dry malt extract, I dont know because again this is my first batch. The kit includes a 3.3 # can of liquid malt extract, 2 lbs of dry malt, separately bagged, 5 oz bag of priming sugar, a one oz bag of U.K First Gold hop pellets. My questions are do I use all 2lbs of the malt extract? When do I add the hops, and when do I remove them? and do I add all 1 oz of the hops? Thanks in advance!

 

[PT Ray]

Which or what retailer's kit it it?

 

[rdog157h]

It is called True Brew Amber 5 gallon kit.

 

[PT Ray]

That helps.

Personally I would:

-Boil the hops in a gallon of water for 15 minutes.
-Turn heat off and add the 2 lbs of DME. Stir to dissolve.
-Pour the 3.3 hopped can of LME in to the fermenter
-Use some of the hot wort from the pot to clean can
-Add wort from pot to fermenter with the LME
-Stir to get everything dissolved
-Top off to 5 gallons with cold water
-Pitch yeast

This is a little over simplified and everyone has their own way of doing extract beers.

 

[rdog157h]

Do I filter out the hop pellets? Or leave in ferment bucket? And do I add the 5oz sugar packet to the wort or is that sugar for bottling? I know the yeast needs sugar but figured the LME might contain the sugars.

 

[RM-MN]

Do I filter out the hop pellets? Or leave in ferment bucket? And do I add the 5oz sugar packet to the wort or is that sugar for bottling? I know the yeast needs sugar but figured the LME might contain the sugars.

Your choice on filtering out the hops or not. I've done it both ways and I like the beer I get. The 5 oz sugar is for priming for bottling. When the beer is done fermenting, you bring a cup or 2 of water to a boil and stir this sugar in to dissolve it. Dump this sugar water mix into your bottling bucket (or other container for bottling) and then rack the beer into the bucket trying not to let it splash to become oxygenated and using a sanitized spoon stir it well without splashing to thoroughly mix the priming sugar.

DME and LME both contain sugars which the yeast feed on to create alcohol. They both belong in the fermenter.

 

[rdog157h]

Ok I got the wort and LME mixed in the bucket, and added water to the 5 gal mark, problem is the temperature strip on the side isn't showing a temperature reading so I don't know the temp. The bucket is warm to the touch, I don't want to kill the yeast, so what should I do?