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Mouthfeel, I guess. Maybe I could just use less water to give it a bit more 'body'? I've never used spray malt before so I don't know what to expect.

I'm hoping to get the best beer for my bucks, and using 500g of spray malt increases the overall cost by around £5. Using 1 kg would put the price up to around £1 per litre!

I'm about to build up a stock of beer ahead of a holiday break and have bought a couple of Simply Bitter kits and two x 500g bags of medium spray malt. The malt bags suggest using it 'pound for pound' to replace granulated sugar. As I'm not averse to a sensible experiment would members suggest...

Well, here's the final update on the Geordie brews made using Orkney Mainland tapwater. Everything took twice as long to ferment and mature as other brands of LME kits I've used here, like John Bull and Simply. I'm guessing that the tapwater is so heavily dosed with chemicals to protect us from...

Thanks for all your advice re the Geordie brews, which boiled down to "Relax - patience will be rewarded". All three have taken twice as long to ferment as my usual LME kits, and all have taken twice as long for their secondary fermentation in the same conditions as in the past 6 years. The...

Thank you. It would be good to hear opinions from anyone using Geordie kits themselves.

...but it IS the first time I have fallen off! As I said in my intro, I've been making beer at home using the 'kit and a kilo' method for around 40 years. The kits are mostly ales or bitters from Youngs, Coopers, John Bull or Simply. My method hasn't changed, I use a white plastic 25l bin and...

Hi All, I'm in Orkney and have been brewing my own beer, nearly always from LME kits, for around 40 years. I joined yesterday because I have a problem! I'll tell you about it in the General Beer Brewing Discussion forum.