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Welcome aboard! There are plenty of suppliers who sell extract kits with the correct amount of all the ingredients - might be a good place to start, then build up your own recipes once you have got used to the kits?
If you are going to add more fermentables it is better to do it earlier rather than later in the fermentation. So tell us how much malt you used, whether it was spray/dried or liquid, whether you used any other sugars, and confirm that your start volume was 23 litres, and then folks on here might be able to help.
So its 400g DME, but how much liquid malt? Anything else?
Without knowing all the quantities from what you have said, the important bit is the hydrometer reading which you said was '40'. If this is 1.040 and your yeast gets down to 1.010 you will have made beer with an ABV of just over 4%, which as a guide is on the borderline between a 'session' and a 'best' bitter if that helps. If that is the case I would leave it if it were mine, as that would be OK for me.
That depends on several things
- did you use a pre-hopped liquid kit
- did you do an extract brew, and if so what quantity of hops did you add and when were they added in the boil
- what style of beer are you making
- what hops have you available, suitable for your style of beer
- and importantly how hoppy do you like your beers.
Dry hopping ups flavour and aroma, not bittering.
Its up to you at the end.
If you go ahead this may be useful if you haven't done it before http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=61045
- did you use a pre-hopped liquid kit
- did you do an extract brew, and if so what quantity of hops did you add and when were they added in the boil
- what style of beer are you making
- what hops have you available, suitable for your style of beer
- and importantly how hoppy do you like your beers.
Dry hopping ups flavour and aroma, not bittering.
Its up to you at the end.
If you go ahead this may be useful if you haven't done it before http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=61045
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