Penghu Brews
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Hello everyone.
I've done about 6 extract brews now (American IPAs) with Light DME. It's producing a lovely colour and flavour, but consistently finished at 1.020 or just below, with a starting gravity of 1.050. It tastes and smells great but I'd really like to be hitting the 5% abv with a little drier finish and am looking at how to achieve this. I understand replacing a percentage of the dme with table sugar can do the trick but can't find much on what that percentage should be.
I'm using about 1.5lb DME per gallon of wort at the moment, which as I say consistently gets me my target 1.050. Can I replace a third of this with sugar? How might this affect Fg? And body? Appreciate your input, cheers fellas.
I've done about 6 extract brews now (American IPAs) with Light DME. It's producing a lovely colour and flavour, but consistently finished at 1.020 or just below, with a starting gravity of 1.050. It tastes and smells great but I'd really like to be hitting the 5% abv with a little drier finish and am looking at how to achieve this. I understand replacing a percentage of the dme with table sugar can do the trick but can't find much on what that percentage should be.
I'm using about 1.5lb DME per gallon of wort at the moment, which as I say consistently gets me my target 1.050. Can I replace a third of this with sugar? How might this affect Fg? And body? Appreciate your input, cheers fellas.