King Brown
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So I recently recieved via mail order a copy of Brewing classic styles by John Palmer and Jamil Zainasheff. I've read all the chapters on brewing the recipes in the book, and I'm keen to start trying out some of them. I think I've decided to start with the Old Ale recipe in the book, as by winter when it will be the best weather for an old ale should be coming along nicely in age.
The recipe calls for just over 6kg of english pale ale lme, along with some treacle and steeped specialty malts. I've usually used around 3Kg of lme for most my recipes in the past, boosted up to gravity with ldme. Im wondering if I replaced the liquid with dry extract (using 80% of the weight, of course) Would I get a beer that was inferior to the one in the book? It will be much cheaper to by dry extract in bulk than to buy that much lme (it will cost about $46 to buy 3 1.5kg cans, or over $30 for a 5kg bucket from craft brewer)
Otherwise I'll probably be looking at $60 - $70 for the brew!
Alternatively should I make the leap to brewing all grain? And just do a half sized batch?
What are everbody's thoughts?
The recipe calls for just over 6kg of english pale ale lme, along with some treacle and steeped specialty malts. I've usually used around 3Kg of lme for most my recipes in the past, boosted up to gravity with ldme. Im wondering if I replaced the liquid with dry extract (using 80% of the weight, of course) Would I get a beer that was inferior to the one in the book? It will be much cheaper to by dry extract in bulk than to buy that much lme (it will cost about $46 to buy 3 1.5kg cans, or over $30 for a 5kg bucket from craft brewer)
Otherwise I'll probably be looking at $60 - $70 for the brew!
Alternatively should I make the leap to brewing all grain? And just do a half sized batch?
What are everbody's thoughts?