alcohol content

[Cadbury]

G'day men,
Is there any way to dictate the alcohol content when doing an extract brew? Most recipes I see might call for between 3 and 4 kilos of liquid or dry malt. This means it will turn out at around 5%. To reduce this do I simply reduce the amount of malt?
Cadbury.

[Clean Brewer]

Yep..

You can work out your Alc % by your Gravity readings(O.G and F.G)

[warra48]

There are a number of ways to do this.

Those of us who do AG brews mostly have bought programs such as BeerSmith or Promash, which predicts your alcohol % when designing your recipes.

Or you could try a free calculator such as this one. Do a search on Google etc, there are some free downloadable programs available.

Or just try to use this simple one: http://www.liquorcraft.com.au/wa.asp?id ... etails=107

[drsmurto]

Beersmith works just as well for extract brewers. Even kit brewers use this to build their recipes and get an idea what sort of alc/ibu they are looking at.

Download it and try it but i bet that like most people, you will be more than happy to pay for it.

Best piece of software i own!

[Cadbury]

thanks men, I'll give it a try.