Making FIRST BOCK from a kit

[rjwerb]

Just bought a 4lb can of Muntons Bock Beer. It recommended adding malt extract, but didn't say how much, to make a 5 gallon batch. So, I bought 3lbs Amber Dry Malt Extract.

My questions:

How much Amber DME do I add, and how do you know this?
How can I estimate the O.G. based on these ingridients (i.e. what software or online calculators do you use).
What type of extract is most likely used in this kit? (dark, amber?)

I bought 2x 11.4g packets of Lager yeast. Should I use both packets?

Basically I'm asking this: "I bought this kit and want to know how I can use this kit to make a kick-ass bock (since the directions on the back of it are vague and crappy), and how do you all calculate the estimated O.G. and estimated F.G.?

THANKS VERY MUCH!
-Ryan

 

[Ooompa Loompa]

www.beercalculus.com can give you a pretty good estimation as to OG and FG. I just punched in 4 lbs generic LME and 3 lbs generic DME and put in Saflager S-23 as your yeast (since you didn't specify) and it gave an OG of of around 1.056 and a FG of around 1.015. That should be pretty close anyway.

I have no clue what type of extract should be used along with the Muntons Bock extract, but I think your choice of amber DME should be just fine. Do you have a good place to lager?