Munton's Hopped LME ; EBU Question

[gresc]

Muntons seems to express bitterness in terms of EBU's. Does anyone know if there's a way to convert this to IBU or I"m I mixing apples and oranges ?

 

[Poindexter]

I am not sure, but I only used a hopped extract one time only.

I would say go ahead and use whatever recipe you got this time, and use unhopped extract until you get a chance to taste this one after it has been in the bottle a while.

Sorry, never heard of EBU before.

 

[padair]

EBUs are European Bittering Units, to find the amount of hops required you use the formula

EBU × 10 × volume brewed in litres
----------------------------------------------- = Hops needed in grammes
alpha-acid × utilisation

As the malt is already hopped, you'll need to factor in the amount of EBUs in the extract to any hops that you add.

 

[david_42]

For our purposes, they are the same. IBU is the newer term & I think Munton's just uses EBU to be posh.

 

[gresc]

Thanks all; I should have mentioned that I was adding Munton's Hopped LME to Brewsmith software and wanted to be sure that I had the characteristics right.
I used hopped LME in an Irish Ale that came with a kit, I added a bunch of other ingredients and wanted to see what the overall IBU was.