Is This Stuff Ok For Bulk Priming?

[BigDaddy]

Hi All,

I saw some DME in the HBS the other day called "Band Malt Dried - light"...its a Brewcraft product.

Is it OK for bulk priming (ie is it more or less fermentable than regular DME??) I use the bulk priming calculator listed on this site and generally use demerara or muscovado sugar for priming dark ales etc. But in my lighter beers i dont want to add anything that will add extra colour or raisiny flavours.

Any opinions are appreciated.

 

[Yob]

Hi All,

I saw some DME in the HBS the other day called "Band Malt Dried - light"...its a Brewcraft product.

Is it OK for bulk priming (ie is it more or less fermentable than regular DME??) I use the bulk priming calculator listed on this site and generally use demerara or muscovado sugar for priming dark ales etc. But in my lighter beers i dont want to add anything that will add extra colour or raisiny flavours.

Any opinions are appreciated.

ummm... whats wrong with Dextrose?

 

[BigDaddy]

ummm... whats wrong with Dextrose?

Nothing....just havent seen or heard of the gear in question before

 

[Yob]

This Link should help

 

[kelbygreen]

you can buy dextrose at any LHBS or any place that sells home brew kits. its about half the price of malt and you will need less to bulk prime. I got a bag in bulk 25kg works out to be $2 a kg but will take me years and years to use it lol

 

[manticle]

This Link should help

I think the OP means they haven't heard of band dried malt before. My guess is that it would be no different to any other DME but check with the HBS or the manufacturer if you can find out who they are.

 

[BigDaddy]

I think the OP means they haven't heard of band dried malt before. My guess is that it would be no different to any other DME but check with the HBS or the manufacturer if you can find out who they are.

Correctamundo on what I was asking. I was planning on asking next time I was there but thought someone here may have 'field' experience with the stuff

 

[kelbygreen]

Ok this is off muntons website so would be the same

Vacuum Band Dried Products
Vacuum band dried extract differs from spraydried by being very coarse.

Band dried products are made by introducing a liquid malt extract onto a slowly moving band passing through the vacuum drying oven. Drying occurs after the circulation of hot air through this moving bed of material. The vacuum allows evaporation to happen at a lower temperature and aids the extract to 'bubble up'.

The resultant honeycomb of material is milled into a coarse powder prior to packing.

Band dried extracts offer many of the benefits associated with Spraymalts. They also contribute to the following characteristics:

all non-diastatic
coarse powder
more easily soluble than Spraymalts
additional flavour derived from 'cooking' process
inclusion of other ingredients like milk powder, fat, sugar, whey is possible

 

[kelbygreen]

just encase you wanna know the difference in spraymalt

Spraymalts
Spraymalts are fine powder dried malt extracts. Drying is achieved by the use of a spraydrier, a process which produces particularly uniform powders both in terms of particle size and flavour.

Spraymalts offer the user several benefits:-

a rich malty flavour.
a natural colouring medium
a valuable source of fermentable sugars

In addition, Spraymalts can be weighed out with pinpoint accuracy and are ideally suited to dry-mix processes. They can be used in many of the traditional areas to replace liquid extracts.

 

[rude]

Kelbygreen you go straight to the top of the class well done.

I used to use Muntons spray malt when I used kits great stuff.

Being a bottler I've tried a few ingredients to bulk prime with, malt,castor sugar, they all work but I just use dextrose now very happy with the results.

 

[BigDaddy]

Thanks very much guys - very informative