Whats the difference between liquid and dry malt extract?
The only real difference between liquid and dry malt is how it is packaged. The dry malt has nearly every trace of water evaporated from it, so it ends up as a powder. Generally, liquid malt retains about 20% water by weight, so it is in syrup form. Though this does not greatly affect the malt extract itself, it does affect your brewing process. For one thing, you should consider dry malt to be more concentrated than liquid (since 20% of the liquid malt weight is just water). If you’d like to convert from one to the other, you should use .8 pounds dry malt for each pound of liquid, or 1.25 pounds of liquid for every pound of dry malt.
