Simply Pale Ale kit with cascade & challenger

[Fastline]

Ok I've started drinking this now, it's very hoppy quiet light, very drinkable a little bit like punk ipa, nice with a curry seems to be getting better every day

[WalesAles]

I got a coopers stout kit thinking of getting that on the go next week, going to try the ditch method

Its been awhile in the FV probably a week longer than needed but I finally have just bottled my first batch of beer

It's a good feeling seeing the bottles build up, ended up with 42 bottles

Ok I've started drinking this now, it's very hoppy quiet light, very drinkable a little bit like punk ipa, nice with a curry seems to be getting better every day

Fastline,
You are Doomed! Now you`ve got the Brewing Bug, Look Out!
Do the Ditch`s Stout to 18Lts, Beautiful DrinK!

WA

[Fastline]

Im hooked no doubt, i always liked a drink, but only in last few month been getting into real beer, kit building up and theres 5 other extract kits in the cupboard and got a punk ipa grain kit from malt miller

I used ditches method and the stout has gone ballistic, wonder how the other kits would fair using the electric drill to oxygen them up

[Hopping_Mad]

That Simply Pale Ale is my absolute favourite kit!

Always do it with a 1kg bag of DME now. Usually do it to 21 ltrs to improve the body.

Dry hopping it is half the fun. You can chuck practically any US or New World hops in and comes out a treat.

Don't overdo the dry hop though. I think the kit LME is quite well hopped. 50 gms would be my absolute limit - and I love hoppy ales!

[Fastline]

Ok going to try adding pics this is a first for me posting images so here goes the finished beer

[Fastline]

Some pics as i was going













It seems to be tasting better every day, at first i thought it was too hoppy but ive grown to really like it, tastes great with a curry

I'm hooked on home brew.....ing

[Manngold]

Get your next kit on before it all goes...

[Fastline]

Already have Coopers stout as ditches recipe looks loverly, think ditch was ok that i used a dewalt battery drill to mix it, dont think it will effect the outcome

[Manngold]

Haha. I am sure that is permissible under special circumstances...

[Fastline]

Was drinking this the other night, really turned out nice, one of best beers I have tasted

I thought i had over done the hops to start with, im not sure if ive got used to it or its dying down slightly but tastes great maintains a head till the end

It has been changing as i have drunk it, i t was a little worried at one stage there was quiet a grassy taste recently but this seems to have vanashed as fast as it turned up

Only got a few bottles of this left now

But got lots of my ditches stout and a coopers real ale conditioning in the bottles

Ive got a couple of the simply lager kits, need to get them going as nothing in the FV at the moment

[WalesAles]

Was drinking this the other night, really turned out nice, one of best beers I have tasted

nothing in the FV at the moment

Fast,
Glad that your Beer came good!
Nothing in the FV? Shame on you!
Top Tip...... Don`t tell people you have an empty FV!

WA

[Fastline]

I will correct the situation soon, Any tips on a good hop for an ale type larger I say ale type as im sure i wont be mucking around with cold fermentation. sounds like a bit too much work

My temp control at the moment is fish tank heater in builders bucket

[timbo41]

Step up just a little and go for a steamer type beer.... Make sur you use northern brewer hops. Some temp control is necessary but not so much faff as lagering