Dissolving DME and dextrose?

[Wekslap]

Hiya

Can you just mix DME and dextrose in with the kit when you add the boiling water to the FV? Or do you need to mix in separately first in a jug with boiling water or suchlike?

Thanks

John

[Ditch]

Sling it all in and hit it with a drill.

Can't see where the boiling water comes from ~ other than rinsing the tin .....

[Hopping_Mad]

Both go clumpy if you stick them straight in boiling water, with DME being the worst!

Mix your malt extract from the kit with the boiling water as per instructions, then start adding your cold, then when you are around 10 litres, start mixing your powders in with the wort as you are adding cold stirring vigorously. I use a second FV on my kitchen work surface to add my Campden treated tap water from a height thus aerating the wort, and leaving me hands free for sugar/DME additions with one hand and stirring with the other.

Simples!

[WalesAles]

as you are adding cold stirring vigorously. I use a second FV on my kitchen work surface to add my Campden treated tap water from a height thus aerating the wort, and leaving me hands free for sugar/DME additions with one hand and stirring with the other.

Simples!

Simples!
C`mon HM, Ditch just said `Get the Drill in there with the Plasterers thing on the end`.
Then you will aerate, then you will have hands free, then you will have a smile on your face and then you will say `F%ck Yeah! I Love this Brew Thing!`

WA

[cellone]

Don't have prob adding DME to a boil or an FV. Either way give it some.

[Exiled Bradfordian]

Whatever extra fermentables I've used I have always just added it at the same time as the kit and stirred the f**k out of it. No drill; just a long spoon. Never had a problem.

[Hopping_Mad]

as you are adding cold stirring vigorously. I use a second FV on my kitchen work surface to add my Campden treated tap water from a height thus aerating the wort, and leaving me hands free for sugar/DME additions with one hand and stirring with the other.

Simples!

Simples!
C`mon HM, Ditch just said `Get the Drill in there with the Plasterers thing on the end`.
Then you will aerate, then you will have hands free, then you will have a smile on your face and then you will say `F%ck Yeah! I Love this Brew Thing!`

WA

What can I say, except "Whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"!

[bigtoe]

Sling it all in and hit it with a drill.

Can't see where the boiling water comes from ~ other than rinsing the tin .....

got to admit I have copied your method and it works superbly...2 mins with the drill and everything is thoroughly mixed and aerated up, stress free mixing and brewing.

[WalesAles]

Whatever extra fermentables I've used I have always just added it at the same time as the kit and stirred the f**k out of it. No drill; just a long spoon. Never had a problem.

EB,
Have you tried putting your Long Spoon in the Drill? Should be Fun!
Think I`ll have a pint of Yorkshire Bitter now!
I will post you a bottle on Monday! About bloody time too!

WA

[Exiled Bradfordian]

Hey I'll send you one too. Got to send one to MB too!

[Ditch]

Ditch; I've got to admit I have copied your method and it works superbly.

Ye can trust me, mate. I'm like Jimmy McGurk on the Irish Rover; Scared sh!tless of work. If there's any way what so ever of lessening the effort I have to put into making my beer? I'll bloody well find it!

Sod all that winding four gallons about with a plastic f**king paddle! Arm ache! Christ, at my stage in the game, it could give me a f**king cardiac!

Many decades back now, I was a young lad of sixteen and labouring for a bricky called Clem. One day, finding me making an arse of some job, Clem turned to me and gently intoned:

" Ditch; What ever you need to do in life, there'll always be a hard way and an easy way. Always look for the easy way. "

One of the best bits of advice I've ever been given

Just happens, the other best advice I ever got was when I was sixteen too .....

" Ditch; I'm sending you an unopened tin of 'Cymag'. Cyanide powder used to gas rats to badgers. It comes in like a red and white paint tin. Lever the lid off and there's a sealed sheet of tin foil. Cut that away and ye'll find the white powder underneath it.

Don't Sniff It to see what it smells like!!! "


Faaarkk! Because ye Would, wouldn't ye? Most natural thing on the world! I would of. That last line saved my life