a kit like Greene King Abbot?

[Paul_S]

Can anyone recommend a kit which makes something broadly akin to G.K. Abbot? Would Woodforde's "Admiral's Reserve" make a good starting point with some additional dry hopping ?

[Hoppkins]

Greene King! *shakes fist*

[steve_flack]

Why make it at home? You can get it in almost any pub thanks to Greene King's tour of destruction.

[Paul_S]

Greene King! *shakes fist*

I know - I did two tours of the HH brewery, the last just before it closed. The request is for my bro' in law and is for something around the same sort of strength, body & hoppiness. What he wants to do is spilit the cost of 10-gallon batches so I'm looking at probably basing it on a kit with some added spray malt & hops. I really don't want to be messing about with another 10-gal full mash, especially as my beloved sparge arm seems to have gone walkabout.

Unfortunately the village where we live has a grand choice of Everards bitter (£2.60 a pint!). "Mansfield" bitter & Deuchars IPA. Guess which one I drink....

[J_P]

Every time you buy Greene King God kills a kitten!

[J_P]

I love cats, I don't think I could manage a whole one though!

[ColinKeb]

dave line has a recipe in his bbltyb in case you feel like coming over to the dark side , alternatively you could make bishops tipple, that takes you over , creates a lot of weak p*ss and makes you regret it afterwards

[fivetide]

It depends whether you mean the excellent Abbot you used to find in pubs 20 years ago, or the monotone stuff you get these days that takes regulars too long to drink and gets even worse...

Sorry, just being a miserable sod - hate Greene king, partly because it could have been so different!

There's a few AG recipes under search, but if you do try Admiral's Reserve I'd be VERY interested to hear how it goes and what you think!

[oxford brewer]

Greene King! *shakes fist*

Unfortunately the village where we live has a grand choice of Everards bitter (£2.60 a pint!). "Mansfield" bitter & Deuchars IPA. Guess which one I drink....

If it was me then it would be the Deuchars

[james_m_r]

Every time you buy Greene King God kills a kitten!

Every time God kills a kitten he saves a hundred birds!
Incidentally my dog has previously caught 2 cats in our garden and mauled them both to within an inch of their lives. The first one belonged to the new neighbours who had moved in the week earlier.
We don't get cats in the garden any more.

[fivetide]

Send your dog round please, I hate other people's cats wrecking my garden.

Cat lovers think their little beasts are so cute, primarily because they piss and shit and kill birds in other people's gardens.

Back in the days when I lived in London I had to put hawthorn clippings in all my pot plants and cover all the fences in pepper just to stop the backyard turning into a cat toilet full of dug up bulbs.

Imagine if people just let their dogs out all day and night to roam around other people's lawns, you wouldn't hear the end of it. One neighbour with cats once said "Oh they don't understand, it's because you haven't got cats you see!" (My fault then) "Perhaps you should sprinkle zoo poo around your borders?"

[steve_flack]

My cat used to attack dogs....she was hard. She lives elsewhere now as my wife's allergic to them.

[james_m_r]

Cat lovers think their little beasts are so cute, primarily because they piss and shit and kill birds in other people's gardens.

[J_P]

They wouldn't get chance to crap in our garden the dog considers any cat, squirrel or pigeon that enters the garden to be fair game and sees them all off with equal vigour.

[ColinKeb]

i bought a black widow catapult from ebay and some ball bearings , not only does it keep my veg patch free of cats it gives you a pleasant pastime and imense satisfaction