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using malt extracts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:20 pm
by williewonker
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.

Re: using malt extracts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:22 pm
by scythe
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

Re: using malt extracts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:29 pm
by TasSpirits
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?

Re: using malt extracts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:49 pm
by williewonker
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.

Re: using malt extracts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:58 pm
by TasSpirits
Any of the cereal washes, CFW, Wheatbix/allbran will benefit from some malt extract. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Re: using malt extracts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 7:17 pm
by Zak Griffin
:text-+1:

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

Re: using malt extracts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 8:22 pm
by williewonker
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..

Re: using malt extracts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 8:58 pm
by Zak Griffin
Both at the same time will work but I'd rather split it over two generations :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Re: using malt extracts

PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 9:55 am
by williewonker
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 :/

Re: using malt extracts

PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:17 am
by bluc
Sounds like a small puke.If you double distill the spirit run will clean it up otherwise drop the heat down..

Re: using malt extracts

PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 1:52 pm
by holden4th
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

Re: using malt extracts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 31, 2021 5:39 pm
by bluc
Dextrose does little for flavour if possible $ wise use dme to hit desired gravity..

Re: using malt extracts

PostPosted: Sun Jan 02, 2022 9:00 pm
by holden4th
bluc wrote:Dextrose does little for flavour if possible $ wise use dme to hit desired gravity..


Can you give me more info please?