OBK extract kit question

[darmani]

Hi everyone,

I am new on this forum and have been brewing for the past 8 months, from festa brew kits to my own extract recipe and everything in between (no AG yet )

I will soon have enought empty grolsh bottles for my fifth brew and I have been wanting to do an ontario beer keg kit, the english barleywine.

Unfortunatly my brewpot is 15L and I can't have a gas burner for the moment so I do everything on the stovetop. Since I would like to do this recipe and get as close as possible to the original I played in beersmith a bit and found out that if I steep the 1# of brown malt, add only 3# of the gold liquid extract in 10L of water for the 60min boil and add the remaining 9# of liquid extract after the boil and top off to 19,87L (5,25 gal) I get exactly the same numbers as if I did a full boil, 39.9IBU 14,7 SRM.

I send an email to OBK with these lenghty explanations and only got as an answer "Our kits will not work split up."

Unsatisfied by this answer I would like a second opinion, is the math wrong and can I trust beersmith on this?

 

[sheephrdr]

yup it will work, I just brewed a late lme addition on the weekend, 1ltr(2.2lbs) added with the first hops then ill add the rest of the malt extract when there is 15-20 mins left in the boil. you get better hops utilization by not adding all of the malt extract in the beginning when a full boil is not an option.. full boils are obviously best but sometimes I just want to make something quick and easy, less liquid equals less time to come to a full boil . I have ordered from OBK and have been happy but never ordered there kits, just hops and yeast.

 

[dhutchings]

'Sup, fellow OBK customer.

Yep, brewing the kit the way you say should work fine. Beersmith's calculations are pretty good.