Dextrine malt v OG ?

deeJay

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Hi all,
Have a question
My understanding is that dextrine malts have very high amount of unfermentable sugars. I use 300g of dextrine in my pale ales which when added to the recipe with my base malt will bump the OG up from 1.051 to 1.054 .
should the small amount of fermentable sugars from the dextrine affect the OG by this much ?
cheers.
 
Any sugars will bump up the OG whether they are fermentable or not , however they will also result in a higher FG so yes this is correct .
Each and every ingredient will have PPG listed , this stands for Potential (per) pound / gallon .
So 1 lbs of any malt with ppg of 40 in a 1 gal total mash will result in a gravity of 1.040 ( assuming perfect mash efficiency and zero losses )
 
Thanks for your reply Mark, much appreciated.
I overlooked the fact that the unfermentable sugars are still sugars.
your email makes good sense and you have simplified the PPG v gravity for me.
will carry on brewing as per usual.
cheers
 

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