Adding to a wilko kit

[howyoubrewin]

Evening folks,
I am thinking of ways to use up some leftover grains and hops I have and following on from new year and Xmas, I don’t want to part with a lot of money. I thought about using a wilko kit as a base and building around that. What’s your thoughts? Think it will work? Any feedback would be appreciated.

 

[dad_of_jon]

Evening folks,
I am thinking of ways to use up some leftover grains and hops I have and following on from new year and Xmas, I don’t want to part with a lot of money. I thought about using a wilko kit as a base and building around that. What’s your thoughts? Think it will work? Any feedback would be appreciated.

absolutely. hops grain a bag of dme, what ever you fancy. what wilco kit are you thinking of?

 

[crowcrow]

I used to do their ipa with a bag of dme and a load of dry hops, and one of their stout with extra dark dme, treacle and extra hops. Was lovely!

 

[dad_of_jon]

I used to do their ipa with a bag of dme and a load of dry hops, and one of their stout with extra dark dme, treacle and extra hops. Was lovely!

of course coopers web site gives a recipe to turn their stout into an impy. If should world for whatever stout they have in wilko thesedays.

 

[howyoubrewin]

absolutely. hops grain a bag of dme, what ever you fancy. what wilco kit are you thinking of?

Thanks for the reply. I’m not sure what kit to go with but I fancy doing something with either the bitter or the stout. I have BeerSmith so I could play about with some ingredients and see what I come up with.

 

[howyoubrewin]

I used to do their ipa with a bag of dme and a load of dry hops, and one of their stout with extra dark dme, treacle and extra hops. Was lovely!

Funny enough the stout was one of the kits I was considering and I have some treacle, and brown sugar in the cupboard. I have some bramling cross hops that I want to try as well that might go well in a stout with the dark fruits kind of flavour.

 

[Jim Brewster]

If anything I would say they need to be added to, but they make a good base canvas

 

[dad_of_jon]

try this....

https://uk.diybeer.com/brew-cans/original-series
lots of recipies you can use to adapt use with your kit

https://uk.diybeer.com/recipes/index/view/id/42/