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I am doing a starter today. I want to do 5500 ml of wort, how much DME to get about a 1.040 OG for the starters (2 X 2000 ml). Or better asked how much DME per 500 ML.

Thanks
Tim

I use this site to help figure that stuff out.

http://brew.stderr.net/starter_wort_calc.html

Check out Jamil's site for starters....

http://www.mrmalty.com/


Travis

I do a simple 1 cup/1 quart, period. It's about 1.040.

Rob

Thanks all, as normal I am over analyzing it…. I just modified my normal starte and got a 1.044 starter…. I hope it will work, see my next post about brewing American wheat for the next question….

Tim

An easy way to remember is 10 parts water (ml) to 1 part DME (gram) gets you a fairly ideal starter gravity of around 1.036.

There is nothing easy about the metric system...

They told me they would switch when they forced me to learn it in school... and then they didn't...LIARS!

I'll stick with my 1 CUP per QUART thank you VERY much!

Rob

Nothing wrong with your method.

I use the metric method, because it is really easy to scale. For example, my canning jars hold 800 ml to the right fill point. I weigh out 80 grams of DME, toss it in each jar, fill to the line. Done.

Same thing for most flasks, as they are mostly in metric.