Hi, I'm Mark Emiley on behalf of Expert Village.
In this next segment, we are going to start
getting our water up to a boil, adding our
extract, and then getting our boil rolling.
As we are getting in close to our boil, say
around one-hundred and ninety to two-hundred
degrees, we're actually going to turn off
the heat now and we are going to add some
of our malt extract. First we are going to
take our kettle off the main heat. Then we
are going to take the malt extract, which
has been soaking in hot water, start mixing
it in very nice and slowly, trying to make
sure that it all gets blended in. Now, a tip
that you may not get from a lot of other brew
starters is that you don't actually want to
add all the malt extract right now. Instead,
we're going to add roughly half to two-thirds
of the extract. What this will prevent is
some of the caramely flavors which are sometimes
associated with extract brewing. The rest
of the extract we are going to add with about
fifteen to twenty minutes left. During this
process you want to continually stir to make
sure that everything is all mixed together
and that none of it is going to be left on
the bottom in order to scorch. Now that you've
got two-thirds or half of the extract put
in, just continually stir it, turn on your
heat and start working on getting it up to
a boil. In particular, if you're going to
be using dry malt extracts, you never want
to add that while it's boiling, you want to
add that before hand or else it will clump
heavily and it will be very hard to break
into the solution. As you can see, we are
getting very nice and close to a boil. You
can start to see some of the first bubbles
come up. At this point, it's going to be very
important to start controlling your temperature.
You don't want a boil-over. At this point,
you are going to want to closely regulate
your temperature and turn down your heat.
Now we are getting a nice boil here and we
want to turn down our heat so that we don't
reach any high levels. It's going to foam
up, but with a little temperature management,
you should be okay.
