Can't mash for 8 weeks so kit time....

[bobukbrewer]

I have purchased a selection of Coopers kits. The plan is to make them up to only 13 litres, with no sugar or DME addition. UNLESS you knowledgeable people have a better plan. Posted here rather than the kit forum as I want full mash quality...

 

[Clint]

Won't they be too bitter and nearly double strength?

 

[Slid]

I doubt they will be too bitter! I doubled up one can kits a few times and none of them were.
You won't get full mash quality from a kit and the closest approximation from my experience is to do a smaller mash and add that.

 

[Griff097]

Not an expert on kits as always been AG, but did two Woodford Bure Gold Kits as an experiment recently and they turned out really well, very drinkable.
I preferred the one I pimped using second running from a mash as it was more ale like, the other more citrussy so not sure if it was the supplied dry hop or yeast that gave those flavours, but I suspect it was the hops.

I would be tempted to do a kit exactly as they recommend and another with a yeast you are used to and choose your own dry hop additions, I brew a Speckled Hen clone which has a large Lme addition which I was surprised about, but I think it's superb, so I wouldn't be too put off using Lme in kits.

 

[The Baron]

Most people brew most kits short to say 19Ltrs so yes at 13Ltrs they will be a little more taste and bitterness to them but unless you are really sensitive to IBU's they should be ok.
Go for it better to brew than not

 

[bobukbrewer]

thanks all - it is a short term thing - back to mashing asap - I thought a kit says add 1 kg sudar / dme - so reduce length by a third and no addition - ~I like hops - may add 10 and 20 % water to some bottles as an experimenrt.