Beer Enhancer ingredients

[Daniel Addington]

I have a couple of 1kg brew enhancers lying around and thought it was high time I did something with them. Does anybody know what proportions of ingredients they would contain?

I have a:

Copper Tun - English Bitter No.70 - 1kg

Ingredients: Dextrose, Malt, Corn Syrup, Hops

Copper Tun - Bavarian Wheat - 1kg

Dextrose, Malt, Corn Syrup, Hops.

I was thinking of making an extract brew with DME, steeping some specialty malts, a partial boil etc but just scared of getting an estery, cidery flavoured beer from an unknown amount of readily fermentable dextrose and corn syrups contained.

Anyone have any ideas? Perhaps use half of one? Bin them?

[denimglen]

From looking at them in the shop I'd say they're at least 90% dextrose.

The ones I've seen with hops in them look like they've got less than about 5 pellets per kilo.

I wouldn't put them in a beer to be honest.  Use them in your coffee or bin 'em I reckon.

[Paul Fraser]

I used one way back when I started out. Made no difference to the brew. I would bin them too.

[Daniel Addington]

The colour is closer to dextrose than DME. It's a shame they sell these things without more information on IBUs, types of malt and hops etc. I guess for $8 you are getting slightly fancy sugar.