Roasted Barley & Honey Ale

[sponge]

So would you be happy to say that the saunders malt extract is completely interchangeable with brewing brands of malt extract?

ie. I was planning on doing an extract & grain for my next brew (brown ale, something along the lines of a Kent Old Brown), so I will be using a fair amount of the malt extract (2.5-3kg) so I just want to make sure that its all ok to be used instead of say, Coopers or ESB brand malt extract.


Cheers, Sponge

[Kevnlis]

Saunders is fine, have used it a few times now and noticed no difference. Though is the Coopers/ESB not cheaper?

[sponge]

It was mainly just dependent on my LHBS supplies and cost as it doesn't seem to be the cheapest place going round. Then again, I'd rather help them out then be spending money on the big supermarkets.

In summary, it was mainly out of curiosity and what the LHBS has in stock.


Sponge

[KEG]

oops, i hadn't noticed this thread a month ago when wildschwein posted.. thanks for the update though wildschwein - assuming you get this... you really need to drop in more often

[masculator002]

Hi in respnse to all of the discussion on saunders malt I have produced a number of very fine extract brews with it. I have never had a problem with clarity in fact I have had much hazier beers produced from morgans malts. As for the person who suggested that it removed the bitterness from his coopers bitter I would suggest that some other factor must have been in play there, most probably a higher than average brew temp as I have no probs with achieveing the bitterness that i desire using it. As a matter of fact I just put down a 20 litre brew with a calculated 69.1 Ibu's 1.044 starting gravity and a predicted 1.006 to 1.009 final. Absolutely no kit ingredients have gone into this brew and it should come out very similar to james squires hop thief in both colour and flavour. I do find that it comes out a bit darker than the "light malt extracts" both liquid and dry and thus I would not suggest trying to use it to brew a pilsener or even for that matter a blonde ale. However it brews a very nice american pale ale style beer when used in conjunction with one of the better american ale yeasts i.e.wyeast1056. Any how thats my 2 cents worth see ya

[masculator002]

oh and on the cost side of things a 500 gram bag of coopers light dry retails for nigh on 6 dollars at my local coles and the last lot of saunders I bought was 6.88 for 1 kilogram so to me that is a reasonable saving