Brewing a american brown ale

[nordic man]

Hi all,

I'm brewing an american brown ale and wonder if I should use spray malt medium or spraymalt light for this brew?

[delzep]

Probably doesn't matter. I used to use light (and extra light) in stouts

[ColinC]

Made an extract American Brown Ale recently with 2 cans of light LME and it was a bit thin in body. Was only thinking that next time I'll use half medium DME & half light DME. See how that is. I've been underwhelmedwith LME so far so not going to bother with it any more & just stick to DME.

Made some amber ales with medium DME before& they were great.

[nordic man]

Just in case here, I am about to put in the hops, few minutes till boiling. It says on the labels, 0 minutes, 15 minutes and 60 minutes. Does it mean I put in the 0 minutes at the very start of the boil? or should the 60 minutes go in first? Got the set from Thehomebrewcompany.

[irish_goat]

60 mins go in first, then you count down.

[nordic man]

Hmm, I might have a bit to little liquid in my pot... would that be a proplem? might be around 25 liter, insted of 26.... Should I add some boiling water? its been boiling for 25 minutes.

[irish_goat]

You'll be expecting to lose 3-4 litres by boiling it anyway. Does it say on the instructions how much should be going into the fermenter?

A litre here or there won't make a massive amount of difference anyway. 

[nordic man]

It says on their website that it will make 23 liter. Would it be ok to adjust when its in the fermenter?

[irish_goat]

You can wait til the end of the boil and always top up with a little water if you're below the mark but if you started with 26 you'll probably be near spot on.

[Ciderhead]

Couple of litres either way is not worth losing sleep over.

[Garry]

I'm going doing this kit soon but I'll be using LME. I wouldn't mind swaping a few bottles with you when we're done to compare the difference?

[nordic man]

Sounds good Garry, my first extract brew, so.... not sure if it's done correct. But of course we can swap a few bottles:-)

Was only 19 liter when I poured it to the fermenter.... and OG was 1063... so I topped it up til 22,5 and ended up with OG 1051. So not sure if this will be right. Will probably be excellent:-)

Anyway, good stuff to have gone through the prosess. A bit more controlled next time:-)

[delzep]

Should be fine. You more or less did a partial boil which a lot of people do