Lme + Dme???

[Mr Nick]

I am about to brew another batch, and am wondering if adding 500 grams of DME to a tin of LME (instead of Dextrose etc) is a good idea?

 

[camiller]

Yes, it is a good idea. Bear in mind that the malt extract does not ferment out as much as dextrose so if the receipe called for 500g Dextrose you might want to add 600g of malt extract.

 

[malkore]

agreed. use a little more extract than sugar. the beer will have more flavor and body using extract over sugar.

 

[Mr Nick]

The recipe calls for 1 kg of dextrose...so it looks though I will split the DME with honey to make the required amount.

 

[malkore]

remember honey isn't pure sugar either...there's a fair amount of water content. Honey does have an average gravity of 1.040, which is a little higher than malt extract if I recall correctly.

 

[Mr Nick]

The Boil time for the LME is 20 min. Does adding DME add anything to that?