I picked up an out of date Black Rock Miners stout.
Browsing forums for inspiration came across the suggestion of adding 1.5kg of LME 1kg Dark brown sugar 21g Nugget at start of 40 minute boil and 14g Cascade at 10 minutes.
The suggestion was to boil the extract, and sugar with water.
My query is why boil the extract.
If you were making an extract kit - empty into fv add 3l boiling water, mix, add dextrose, mix, make up to volume and brew.
Surely if the idea is to add some hoppyness to the brew I could just boil water for 40 minutes adding the hops as schedule.
Boiling extract feels wrong. Is it me or am I missing something?
Advice welcome.
Browsing forums for inspiration came across the suggestion of adding 1.5kg of LME 1kg Dark brown sugar 21g Nugget at start of 40 minute boil and 14g Cascade at 10 minutes.
The suggestion was to boil the extract, and sugar with water.
My query is why boil the extract.
If you were making an extract kit - empty into fv add 3l boiling water, mix, add dextrose, mix, make up to volume and brew.
Surely if the idea is to add some hoppyness to the brew I could just boil water for 40 minutes adding the hops as schedule.
Boiling extract feels wrong. Is it me or am I missing something?
Advice welcome.