DME into an erlenmeyer flask

@rocdoc1 yeah, I've only had one crack, and that was a dry flask, empty, accidently left on a hot burner, then moved to cold ceramic sink. It is still in one piece, just a huge crack.

 

I just cut the bottom corner of the bag (like a 1/2-3/4" sized whole) and squeeze out the DME. The pressure inside the bag created by squeezing it makes it act sort of like a liquid. No funnels, cups, or separate equipment needed.

 

Awesome idea. What do you do with the left over DME? I always hate all the powder dust flying away when I pour. I have a plastic container with wide mouth and screw on lid I store my DME in (pouring from the opening on a Ziplock makes a huge mess).

 

I know exactly what you mean. Now I prebuild my starters around 0.5 and 1# bags. I add water to these 2 amounts to create 1.030 and 1.040 worts in the flask. I used to use cloths pens to save the extra DME in the original big bags. The opening would still get sticky. So I just started using the smallest bags I could find.

 

Do you pressure can left overs, make bigger starters than you need and save yeast, or brew to size, or pitch extra? Just curious?

 

So like 0.5# of DME in 1.5L gives me about a 1.030 wort. Or 1# in 2.8 liters makes a 1.040 wort. I have come to just make 4 or 5 standardized combinations to produce amounts/strength of wort that I plug into yeast pitching rate calculator. No extra wort, no partial bags of sticky DME to baby sit. It all goes in and I vary the water, which I have infinite control of. I've really tried to simplify every aspect of brewing into its base steps. If I'm building a vial that has been beat to hell, it's 0.5# in 1.5L or if it's the last big push and I'm looking to build as much as I can, it's 1.5# in 5L.

 

@scurvy311 I like the way you think man.

 

@jbakajust1 I appreciate the complement.