Adapted Kit Recipes.

[scollist]

Hi

Here is a good site for messing with kits.
http://www.geocities.com/lesjudith/Cust ... opers.html

I am currently drinking the AMBER DELIGHT PREMIUM PILSNER.
I used vacuum packed hops instead of pellets and used saflager yeast.
I found the conservatory had an ideal temperature for the fermentation.
I can say I am well pleased.

Cheers

Steve

[WishboneBrewery]

This sounds al right... (obviously from the linked website above!)

O’GAWD STOUT
Here is yet another great stout, malty with added hop flavour.
1 can of Coopers Stout
750g Light Dry Malt Extract
750g Dark Dry Malt Extract
500g Glucose or Dextrose
20g Fuggles Hop Pellets
If you have any spare yeast, you will get a better result
by using 2 identical packets of yeast instead of 1
1. Gently boil the hop pellets in 1 litre of water for 10 minutes.
2. Mix the boiled hops and water with other ingredients in the fermenter together with 2 – 3 litres
of hot water.
3. Add cold water up to the 23 litre mark and stir well.
4. When the temperature is below 30 deg.C. add the yeast and make your beer the usual way.

[vinceg]

Not really a lager drinker, but I have had some great blondes on the Continent, but haven't we all.

So I thought I'd try and re-create hoppy dry taste in a lager kit, my personal preference out of the mainstream lagers we get in the UK is Bitburger, quite dry, a little bitter and quite hoppy.

So I've bought myself a Muntons Connoisseur Export Pilsener kit, some hopped light spray malt and a pack of Hallertau hops. However I've not got much of a clue how to put it all together - any ideas would be very welcome.

[fivetide]

Steeping grains, adding sugars and adjusting brew length will certainly affect a kit, but in my experience the simplest way to enhance a kit you already basically like can be done by other routes too:

- exchange the packaged yeast, use at least a 10 day primary even if you hit target before that, consider siphoning off yeast cake into a secondary bucket to drop bright and provide a wwindow for dry hopping, experiment with dryhopping aroma hops for a week or more, condition under pressue for a further week in the warm and over a month in the cold, longer if you can bear it.

Dryhopping bright beers produces impressive aromatic ales from kits, and I can personally recommend Great Eastern, Midas Touch, Fixby, Wherry, Milestone Crusader etc... with an ounce or so of Cascade, First Gold, BramlingX, Styrians, EKG etc...

...but you'll all be filling your garages with AG kit soon enough anyway, it's just a matter of time and money

[RichardG]

Have a look at the thread below if you haven't already;

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18599&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Cheers!

[Prozac]

I've stuck a Tom Caxtons Dark Real Ale and a Muntons Connoisseur IPA kit on today .... both with added hops and malt.....
Will see how they come out.

[WishboneBrewery]

Here's mine from another thread, I have yet to know how this has turned out as it needs at least 3 more weeks conditioning.

In FV1:
20 Pints of Geordie Yorkshire Bitter
ASDA Smart price Liquor
500g Medium Spray malt
280g Brewing Sugar (just what I had left in a bag)
100g Demerara Sugar
20g Target Hops Steeped for 15mins in cafetiere (Hop Tea)
Kit Yeast used and brought to life for a good couple of hours before pitching
OG: 1040

In FV2:
20 Pints of Geordie Yorkshire Bitter
ASDA Smart price Liquor
500g Light Spray malt
20g Saaz Hops steeped for 15mins in cafetiere
Safale s04 Yeast also working well before pitching
OG: 1032

I shall report back.

[Chris The Fish]

For those of you who want a gentle calming pint of stout see....

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14198

[FiercelyFuzzy]

Here's an adapted IPA I made with lashings of zesty Styrians! My best brew yet.

Flashman's Imperial IPA

Coopers Brewmaster IPA Kit
1.2kg Light Dry Malt
600g Brew Sugar
10g Styrians Boiled 10mins
30g Styrians Steeped 30mins
Made up to 20 litres
2 packets of Nottingham yeast
Dry Hopped 40g Styrians after 5 days

OG: 1060 FG: 1012 ABV: 6.3%

[Chris The Fish]

I plan this for my next/2nd next brew, hops have been ordered.

1x Woodfordes Great Eastern 2 can kit.
500g Hopped light spray malt
US-05 yeast
Slack handful of progress 10-15 min boil with can rinse
Slack handful of cascade 10-15 min boil with can rinse
Slack handful of cascade to steep for 10 mins
rack, then...
let it ferment and rack to a 2ndary
then 3x handfuls of cascades, dry hopped, only they are split into 3 seperate nets, and added for 2 days then removed and a 2nd added, then a third, over 6 days. so you get max fresh hopiness


bottle (in 12oz bottles for authenticity)



condition



drink in heaven.

[196osh]

Coopers Stout Kit.

200g Crystal
200g Special B
100g Chocolate malt
100g Roast Barley

All steeped for 60 mins at around 60C, then add the 1kg of Dark Spray Malt. Make up to 19/20 litres.

I didn't add any extra hops as I wanted the malt flavours to dominate a bit more.

Ferment at 18C with SO4.

Tastes night and day even out of the FV compared with the normal kit.

[brysie]

started this yesterday from another post on here from boingy.

geordie lager kit.
2 x 1kilo tins of tate n lyles golden syrup
1oz of goldings steeped in cafetiere for 30 mins added
rinsed with boiling water and added.
kit yeast
made up to 40 pints.

just over 1040 sg.

[WishboneBrewery]

http://pdtnc.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/g ... saaz-hops/

Today's experiment, it could be a while before I know if this is any good or not!

[kfm]

Coopers mexican lager 23 litres

1 x kit
1kg of brewing sugar
250g flaked rice mashed at 65c for 45 mns
25g saaz hops boiled for 15m + 25g steeped for 15m

2 x s23 yeast, ferment for 21 days at 10-12c

Bottle with 1 x coopers carbonation drop in each bottle - leave for 8 weeks. after some miserable failures with lagers, this one hit the mark

[brysie]

Coopers mexican lager 23 litres

nice one. what would you compare it to?