Cane sugar in 3kg kit??

[MightyMouth]

If I add cane sugar to a 3kg kit and still brew 23 litres will it make the beer taste thinner or just stronger?

[BrewStew]

it'll be stronger but will thin out the flavour. that's what i accidentally did to my first kit.

you can add light spraymalt to give strength and flavour though.

I used BKE (beer kit enhancer) which is a mixer of brewing sugar and spraymalt to my wherry kit to beef it up but add a maltyness flavour to it as i like malty beers. but you can use just plain old spraymalt and/or brewers sugar instead of BKE (i just happened to have it in the cupboard)

edit: one thing i've noticed though if you add sugar/spraymalt to kits is they take ALOT longer to clear... my last wherry kit with 1kg of brewing sugar took 8 weeks to clear

[MightyMouth]

Wow Daab you have a hair trigger posting finger, thanks but what about maybe 500kg kit enhancer instead, would that work better, basically looking for strength without effecting taste and feel

[MightyMouth]

Im brewing a porter anyway so hopefully will be hoppy enough

[BrewStew]

as Daab said, i wouldn't go to the extreme that i've gone to... i just happened to prefer my wherry with 1kg of sugar to without, hence why i'm giving BKE a go for the third try.

if this is your first go at this particular kit, why not leave this one as is... save your last pint or two and make another "modified" one and compare (or vice versa, beef this one up then do another standard one later ) ?

[MightyMouth]

it'll be stronger but will thin out the flavour. that's what i accidentally did to my first kit.

you can add light spraymalt to give strength and flavour though.

I used BKE (beer kit enhancer) which is a mixer of brewing sugar and spraymalt to my wherry kit to beef it up but add a maltyness flavour to it as i like malty beers. but you can use just plain old spraymalt and/or brewers sugar instead of BKE (i just happened to have it in the cupboard)

edit: one thing i've noticed though if you add sugar/spraymalt to kits is they take ALOT longer to clear... my last wherry kit with 1kg of brewing sugar took 8 weeks to clear

Strange but I swear you post wasnt there a minute ago. thanks for the tips

[MightyMouth]

if this is your first go at this particular kit, why not leave this one as is... save your last pint or two and make another "modified" one and compare (or vice versa, beef this one up then do another standard one later ) ?

Yea you are probably right, I'll do that.
Just I really like strong beer but I am cheap so I want a lot of strong but nice tasting beer for nothing.

[daveyk]

if this is your first go at this particular kit, why not leave this one as is... save your last pint or two and make another "modified" one and compare (or vice versa, beef this one up then do another standard one later ) ?

One the subject of experimenting.... something I've been thinking of for a while is splitting the batch into 2.

Therefore with half the wort in each of 2 fv, you can leave one as is and one modified. Is this something other people do or am I likely to cause problems for myself? One thing that has corssed my mind is how do you make sure the yeast is split exactly in half or this not so critical?

Just thinking out loud.

Dave.

[BrewStew]

if your putting 11.5 litres in each FV then yeah i dont see why that wouldn't work.

good idea

[Minus The Bear]

One thing that has corssed my mind is how do you make sure the yeast is split exactly in half or this not so critical?

If you have another why not yeast use a full sachet in each, just to make sure?

[Hoppkins]

My dad added 1kg of spray malt to a woodfordes kit. I thought it would come out like Horlicks, it actually tasted ok but was very sweet.