slash22000
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So, as a Christmas present on behalf of my family, I've finally got my hands on a 40 litre urn for brewing. I intend to move to BIAB grain brewing when I can, but for now I am limited to making extract brews in it (hooray, Darwin). Thing is though, extract is expensive. My local Big W etc only ever stock maybe a half dozen Coopers dry malt boxes at a time (and you need a lot of them to make a 100% extract beer).
A 1.7 kg basic Coopers Original can is $11.50 from Big W, while 0.5 kg of dry malt is $5.75. A 1.7kg liquid extract can is approximately 1.5kg worth of of dry extract, so that's $17.25 worth of dry malt (if they have any).
Coopers recommend you do not boil their cans, because it apparently drives off flavour etc. What I'm wondering is, is it possible to boil off all the aroma/bitterness/etc from a Coopers can and basically reduce it to unhopped extract? That's a 50% saving in costs if it's possible.
Also, because I know it's the simple solution, there are no brewshops in Darwin that sell unhopped extract. That is, we have one (singular) brewshop and they sell their own unhopped extract and it's much more expensive than the Coopers variety.
Thanks in advance guys/girls. Happy holidays!
A 1.7 kg basic Coopers Original can is $11.50 from Big W, while 0.5 kg of dry malt is $5.75. A 1.7kg liquid extract can is approximately 1.5kg worth of of dry extract, so that's $17.25 worth of dry malt (if they have any).
Coopers recommend you do not boil their cans, because it apparently drives off flavour etc. What I'm wondering is, is it possible to boil off all the aroma/bitterness/etc from a Coopers can and basically reduce it to unhopped extract? That's a 50% saving in costs if it's possible.
Also, because I know it's the simple solution, there are no brewshops in Darwin that sell unhopped extract. That is, we have one (singular) brewshop and they sell their own unhopped extract and it's much more expensive than the Coopers variety.
Thanks in advance guys/girls. Happy holidays!