Benefit of using malt over brewbooster

[Jovial Monk]

Heh, never annoyed!

[mr magoo]

is it better to use liquid malt or powded malt? i know it's a bit more stuffing around with powded but i thought that the powded might be less procest, more natural and better tasting.

[RGOR]

The only benefits are better head retension, maltier flavour, cleaner fermentation, less "cidery" tastes, reduced flatulence from maltodextrine (foul stuff found in many "brew boosters"), etc. In short, I recommend you do it.

Along with better yeast, fermentation temperature control, good sanitation and water filtering, replacing the mystery bags with good quality malt extract is one of the best things you can do to improve kit beers.

I hear what you say on all the other stuff, but how is less flatulence a benefit?

[Wakkatoo]

Well. for one, a reduced rate of farting (not to mention severity) is much more popular with she-who-must-be-obeyed (nod nod, wink wink)

Last weekend I drank quite a bit of commercial stuff (I was forced to your honour!) and found that not only did my average fart rate increase, so did the severity. Needless to say, I was not popular!

[Jovial Monk]

Heh! Another good fart inducer is lactose, put into milk stouts and sometimes in ginger beer.

The yeast can't break it down, so the lactose adds body to the beer or ginger beer. However, our intestinal flora has no problem breaking down the lactose, into the usual alcohol and CO2.

On a caravan trip I suggest a nice curry and milkstout all round

[mr magoo]

ummmmm back to my question.
is it better to use liquid malt or powded malt? i know it's a bit more stuffing around with powded but i thought that the powded might be less procest, more natural and better tasting

[RGOR]

Well. for one, a reduced rate of farting (not to mention severity) is much more popular with she-who-must-be-obeyed (nod nod, wink wink)

Last weekend I drank quite a bit of commercial stuff (I was forced to your honour!) and found that not only did my average fart rate increase, so did the severity. Needless to say, I was not popular!

I say wear it as a badge of pride!

[Rysa]

ummmmm back to my question.
is it better to use liquid malt or powded malt? i know it's a bit more stuffing around with powded but i thought that the powded might be less procest, more natural and better tasting

Instead of completely plagiarizing thought i'd cut and paste.

Quote RWH - Each brand of malt will be different. Normally this is due to the difference in the mashing temperature at which the malt extract was converted from starch to sugars. This will result in difference balances of fermentable to unfermentable sugars. Another influence is the country of origin and year of the original barley used to make it.

As for whether there's a fundamental difference between liquid and dry malts, not really. The only thing that might be worth taking into account is the additional processing that goes into the dried variety. - End quote.

It seems dry has a longer shelf life too and is more concentrated hence the reason you use less volume compared to liquid. Comes down to personel preference in the end i reckon, going through a liquid phase myself now.