using malt extracts

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using malt extracts

Postby williewonker » Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:20 pm

A mate of mine gave me some 1.5kg tins of coopers malt extract, two tins of dark (made from 100% two row barley apparently) and one tin of wheat malt (50%wheat 50%barley). As they didn't cost me anything I was thinking I could add some sugar (not sure how much?) to them, ferment and run through the pot, just wondering if I will I get any flavour along a scotch/whiskey line.
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Re: using malt extracts

Postby scythe » Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:22 pm

You could probably add a few other ingrediants and make a proper wash.
BWKO i think uses malt tins.
Nope its this one:
http://aussiedistiller.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1638
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Re: using malt extracts

Postby TasSpirits » Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:29 pm

williewonker wrote:A mate of mine gave me some 1.5kg tins of coopers malt extract, two tins of dark (made from 100% two row barley apparently) and one tin of wheat malt (50%wheat 50%barley). As they didn't cost me anything I was thinking I could add some sugar (not sure how much?) to them, ferment and run through the pot, just wondering if I will I get any flavour along a scotch/whiskey line.


Check out MacWhisky in the tried and proven section, are the tins unhopped?
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Re: using malt extracts

Postby williewonker » Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:49 pm

TasSpirits wrote:
williewonker wrote:A mate of mine gave me some 1.5kg tins of coopers malt extract, two tins of dark (made from 100% two row barley apparently) and one tin of wheat malt (50%wheat 50%barley). As they didn't cost me anything I was thinking I could add some sugar (not sure how much?) to them, ferment and run through the pot, just wondering if I will I get any flavour along a scotch/whiskey line.


Check out MacWhisky in the tried and proven section, are the tins unhopped?


yep tins are just malt extract no hops, I used them in beer before, but they work out too expensive for my basic beer brew.
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Re: using malt extracts

Postby TasSpirits » Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:58 pm

Any of the cereal washes, CFW, Wheatbix/allbran will benefit from some malt extract. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: using malt extracts

Postby Zak Griffin » Fri Dec 09, 2016 7:17 pm

:text-+1:

I'd use them, one at a time, in place of a kg of sugar in a CFW wash :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: using malt extracts

Postby williewonker » Fri Dec 09, 2016 8:22 pm

Zak Griffin wrote::text-+1:

I'd use them, one at a time, in place of a kg of sugar in a CFW wash :handgestures-thumbupleft:


so not all at once, thought that might work out..
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Re: using malt extracts

Postby Zak Griffin » Fri Dec 09, 2016 8:58 pm

Both at the same time will work but I'd rather split it over two generations :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: using malt extracts

Postby williewonker » Sun Jan 08, 2017 9:55 am

running this today and I'm getting little brown dots/bubbles of something coming through, doesn't seem to affect the taste or the run, probably end up with some type of residue to clean out of the pot though :/
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Re: using malt extracts

Postby bluc » Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:17 am

Sounds like a small puke.If you double distill the spirit run will clean it up otherwise drop the heat down..
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Re: using malt extracts

Postby holden4th » Thu Dec 30, 2021 1:52 pm

I am thinking of using dry malt extract to make my next whisky and have some questions.

Would I add other sugar to this (dextrose)?
What yeast should I use?
I only have a 10L fermenter, how much of all the sugars should I use?
Will the FG be close to 1000?

If there are already recipes for this on this forum could someone point me in the right direction? At the moment I don't want to use grains.

Many thanks
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Re: using malt extracts

Postby bluc » Fri Dec 31, 2021 5:39 pm

Dextrose does little for flavour if possible $ wise use dme to hit desired gravity..
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Re: using malt extracts

Postby holden4th » Sun Jan 02, 2022 9:00 pm

bluc wrote:Dextrose does little for flavour if possible $ wise use dme to hit desired gravity..


Can you give me more info please?
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