tinkoh
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I've got an idea for a Strawberry Blonde I want to make. I've used several extract kits in the past but I want specific hops for this so I'd like to buy all the ingredients on their own rather than have extra hops from some random kit with the appropriate grains.
There's tons of recipes out there for the malts in a Strawberry Blonde but while they give good suggestions for the type, they seem to use wildly different amounts. I see 8lbs LME in one where some use the standard 3.3lbs. The amount of steeping grains varies even more wildly.
Is there a rule of thumb for the gravity points that comes from malts? I see 3.3lbs of LME contributes 36 points on Google, and I found a chart that I inferred 5-6 points per lb of steeping grains from, but I feel I should ask before ordering anything. I also am unsure what to figure my FG would be, which makes any OG calculations from this info irrelevant (haven't used my new hydrometer on a beer yet) but I imagine a good OG is 1.050.
Thanks in advance.
There's tons of recipes out there for the malts in a Strawberry Blonde but while they give good suggestions for the type, they seem to use wildly different amounts. I see 8lbs LME in one where some use the standard 3.3lbs. The amount of steeping grains varies even more wildly.
Is there a rule of thumb for the gravity points that comes from malts? I see 3.3lbs of LME contributes 36 points on Google, and I found a chart that I inferred 5-6 points per lb of steeping grains from, but I feel I should ask before ordering anything. I also am unsure what to figure my FG would be, which makes any OG calculations from this info irrelevant (haven't used my new hydrometer on a beer yet) but I imagine a good OG is 1.050.
Thanks in advance.
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