Partiy Amber Ale - replacing Amber Malt Extract with Malt powder

[stquinto]

Happy New Year to you all !

I'm trying to use up some half-packs of leftover stuff like LME, dextrose and a very light malt powder.

I want to make up a Parity Amber Ale recipe but don't have an can of Amber Malt Extract. The recipe calls of a 1.5kg can of it. I have a kilo of amber malt powder, also a half kilo each of dextrose, LME and also haf a kilo of a very light malt powder. I read somewhere that the ratio of malt extract to malt powder was 1.2:1, so for the 1.5kg can I would need 1.25kg of powder.

Does anyone have any experience of what will change by using malt powder rather than extract, and if the ratio sounds right ?

I've been pleased with the results of following the recipes from  the Excel sheet from Shamus in the Coopers Recipe Spreadsheet thread, and would just as soon use up left overs rather than make a specific order for malt extract.  

[Shamus O'Sean]

10 hours ago, stquinto said:

Happy New Year to you all !

I'm trying to use up some half-packs of leftover stuff like LME, dextrose and a very light malt powder.

I want to make up a Parity Amber Ale recipe but don't have an can of Amber Malt Extract. The recipe calls of a 1.5kg can of it. I have a kilo of amber malt powder, also a half kilo each of dextrose, LME and also haf a kilo of a very light malt powder. I read somewhere that the ratio of malt extract to malt powder was 1.2:1, so for the 1.5kg can I would need 1.25kg of powder.

Does anyone have any experience of what will change by using malt powder rather than extract, and if the ratio sounds right ?

I've been pleased with the results of following the recipes from  the Excel sheet from Shamus in the Coopers Recipe Spreadsheet thread, and would just as soon use up left overs rather than make a specific order for malt extract.  

The 1.5kg extract cans are 20% water.  So a 1.5kg can is 0.3kg of water and 1.2kg of malt.

Given what you have I would use the kilo of amber malt powder and 200g of very light malt powder.  The amber malt powder and the Amber Malt Extract are not likely to have exactly the same grain make up, but it will be close enough.

I did the Parity Amber Ale a while ago and recall it was a really nice beer.  I did add in a 200g steep of Crystal Malt though.  Oh, and I did a 75g dry hop of Cascade instead of the 30g in the recipe. 

[stquinto]

Cheers Shamus. I reckon I'll give your version a try -  I quite like Cascade, just hope all the hoppyness doesn't disappear too quick.

[stquinto]

On 1/5/2021 at 10:29 PM, Shamus O'Sean said:

The 1.5kg extract cans are 20% water.  So a 1.5kg can is 0.3kg of water and 1.2kg of malt.

Given what you have I would use the kilo of amber malt powder and 200g of very light malt powder.  The amber malt powder and the Amber Malt Extract are not likely to have exactly the same grain make up, but it will be close enough.

I did the Parity Amber Ale a while ago and recall it was a really nice beer.  I did add in a 200g steep of Crystal Malt though.  Oh, and I did a 75g dry hop of Cascade instead of the 30g in the recipe. 

I made up your version Shamus and just bottled it - it looks pretty good, OG of 1.048, FG 1.010. Good hoppy taste too 

[Shamus O'Sean]

13 minutes ago, stquinto said:

I made up your version Shamus and just bottled it - it looks pretty good, OG of 1.048, FG 1.010. Good hoppy taste too 

Like you, I cannot wait to read your tasting notes.

[stquinto]

On 1/25/2021 at 12:27 PM, Shamus O'Sean said:

Like you, I cannot wait to read your tasting notes.

Had a bottle last night. Really quite nice drop your version Shamus , I reckon the extra hops give a bit of something extra without overdoing it. Went well with a steak too

Defo make this one again !