Boiling a kit?

[micmacmoc]

I can remember reading somewhere on here that someone boiled a kit to stop the homebrew tang....I'm switching to all grain but have some kits to use up too and am fed up with the tang that always accompanies the kits no matter what I try. If anyone has advice as to whether boiling a kit works I'd give it a try. I have a nice new fermenter, spraymalt instead of sugar, water treated with camden tab new heater/thermostats and am ready to go. So any ideas what can remove the tang? Would boiling ruin the kit?

[OldSpeckledBadger]

I can't see how boiling would help. I'm sure all you'd do is lose more hop aroma.

[AlexCricket]

I had read the other day that the tang was due to the process of condensing the wort to make the liquid kit malt which used a lot of heat and thus distorted the flavour.

I am therefore planning on trying a Brewers' Choice kit with option 2 - spraymalt - to make what is essentially a dry kit and see what results I get.

[micmacmoc]

Nah, you're right, anyway if I'm going to boil I may as well do a full mash and boil, which means back to square one. My new supplies arrived today anyhow, so its dry hop the hell out of the kit, spraymalt the sucker, bottle and give it a few months to mature....in short be a bit more patient! Does priming the bottles with spraymalt make that much difference?

[OldSpeckledBadger]

Does priming the bottles with spraymalt make that much difference?

No, the quantity is too small to be noticeable.

[jubby]

I boiled some of my Woodforde's kits as they recommended it, but the taste was still there. Stick with the all grain idea, you will get great beer. Make sure you drink all of your kit beer first though, because you won't want it when your all grain is ready

[pauljmuk]

dont do many kits now, but for those i do , i've eliminated tang with 3 things.

1. using better yeast
2. avoiding sugar and using spraymalt(where applicable )
3. giving them GENEROUS conditioning period

kit cans are already boiled, so dont see it would make a diff.

just done a wherry with safale, 4 weeks only so far conditioning, and no tang.


also, keep eye on ferm temp, ie, not too high.

[micmacmoc]

Its VERY difficult for me to allow enough maturing time, all that beer just sitting there! I have just been given some plastic 5 gallon buckets with lids by a local jam producer so I have some extra fermenting space. I'm gonna make all the rest of my kits up in one go, then there'll be more chance of it getting a fair maturation.
Thanks for the tips,
can't wait to get the AG going again,
ta!