What are your preferences between the liquid and/or dried malt extracts in the market?
I have to admit that I've always gone for whatever was cheapest but now I'm wondering if I'm right.
Lord Eoin did a great post on this recently. Can't remember where it was, but basically it came down to craft range or dme for me.
If I need fine tuning or smaller amounts I use dme, with craft range one for the rest.
I like to mix the two, I find that dried gives a maltier profile.
I spent a year doing extract and always found DME to be far handier i.e. less sticky and easier to measure out if I only needed a smaller amount (e.g. when using wheat DME). I never had problems making decent beer with it either.
I think I might try the craft range. I've been getting an aftertaste in my recent brews. Not a bad taste per say but definatly not a malty flavor.
check here: http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,7537.msg94547.html#msg94547 (http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,7537.msg94547.html#msg94547)
Great article, I can't believe I missed it!
How do you store 25kg of DME without it going off? Would a sealed container work, I'm thinking about an old plastic FV
Surely that's 25kg in smaller 500g bags. It would be a bitch to keep that separated.
the biggest bag of DME I've received was 3kg and even that would have been a balls if it wasn't all going in the same brew.
I use the 500g bags, push the air out and sellotape the end shut to stop the air getting back in. Don't have any issues opening a bag and partially using it with that.