Ponduke
Active Member
Hello, been reading here for some time as I prepare to enter this awesome world of home brewing. Living in Evansville IN I thought I'd have to order everything online thinking I had no LHBS. Turns out there is indeed one, though they're not in the phone book and it's at a farm store of all places! Anyway, I go there Friday and pick up a few essentials to add to what I already had and also picked up a simple no boil extract to make my first batch. Figure I'll go super easy and ease into more involved recipes as my methods improve with practice.
So, I picked up A Muntons Pre-hopped Bock extract. 1.8 kg (3.9 lbs I think), can says it makes 6 US gallons. Like a true Noob, I took the owners word that the 2.2 lbs of corn sugar he sold me would be a perfect, and necessary, addition to the extract. Then after reading up here, that seems to be a bit of a stretch to say the least and that an addition of DME is really what I need and that's something I didn't buy. I want a good first batch, but then again I wanted to brew today (LHBS not open today) and am considering using the sugar. Then I wondered, could I make a partial batch 3 or 4 gallon or so instead of the full 6 and eliminate the sugar or at least cut way back? Would I get at least a decent beer like this?
Any opinions from you experts on this would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Brian
So, I picked up A Muntons Pre-hopped Bock extract. 1.8 kg (3.9 lbs I think), can says it makes 6 US gallons. Like a true Noob, I took the owners word that the 2.2 lbs of corn sugar he sold me would be a perfect, and necessary, addition to the extract. Then after reading up here, that seems to be a bit of a stretch to say the least and that an addition of DME is really what I need and that's something I didn't buy. I want a good first batch, but then again I wanted to brew today (LHBS not open today) and am considering using the sugar. Then I wondered, could I make a partial batch 3 or 4 gallon or so instead of the full 6 and eliminate the sugar or at least cut way back? Would I get at least a decent beer like this?
Any opinions from you experts on this would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Brian