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recipe calls for munich LME but cant find any for whatever reason. ive been told that theres no good substitute for it and not to use pale or light LME. any suggestions on where to find it or what would be a suitable replacement?

Can you maybe do a partial mash with munich? This is what I do with my APA to get some Munich in.

unfortunately im only an extract brewer and dont have the means to upgrade to a mini-mash system at the moment . might be my only option though...

herbie53 wrote:unfortunately im only an extract brewer and dont have the means to upgrade to a mini-mash system at the moment . might be my only option though...

The "means" of a mini-mash system is a mesh grain bag ($3) and a small 2 gallon cooler ($10 or so).

Herbie try using the amber from northernbrewer. What recipe is it? That will help determine how much to use.

+1 siwelwerd

I put off going to mini-mash for a long time thinking it would be too expensive, or too much hassle, or any number of reasons. Then I saw this article. This simple technique opens the doors for you to brew with a lot of speciality grains that you just can't find extract for.

Williams Brewing sells a 50% pils/50% Munich LME. http://www.williamsbrewing.com/GERMAN_G ... 362C99.cfm If you are using one of Jamils recipes, they assume 100% Munich LME. So if the recipe calls for 1# of Munich LME, you would use 2# of the Williams Gold LME extract to get the amount of Munich. Don't forget to reduce the other LME in the recipe by one pound also.

You can do a partial mash with a pot, a bag or colander. I do partial mash sometimes, especially when trying out a new recipie I don't want to do all grain for just a 5 gallon batch. When I need munich malt extract. I just use munich malt instead. I forget the conversion #. Last recipie I used 2# munich malt instead of 1.3# extract. In Brewing classic styles it tells you how much. Munich extract - from what I read is actually a combination of munich and a base malt. You can throw your steeping grains in with it and get more flavor than just steeping. Still much easier than mashing the whole grain bill.