just for fun

[johnmcfarlane]

Craig faraway swears by premium kits and he is god on you tube. Im sure AG is great but seems a lot more hassle and time consuming for the same results as premium kits

 

[unclepumble]

Craig faraway swears by premium kits and he is god on you tube. Im sure AG is great but seems a lot more hassle and time consuming for the same results as premium kits

Craig who?

Just searched YOUTUBE and got these results. I don't see him listed on the front page ?

If you think Kits are better than all grain then Good on you, & I am very glad you like the products you are brewing, enjoy them.

I wasn't having a go at Kits they have there place and Market, They are just not for me.

I have drunk some really crappy AG brews, some of them mine I might add, but a well made AG brew made by someone who knows what they are doing, will make a Premium kit taste crappy in comparison, even if the Kit was well made, they make good beer in the right hands, just not great beer.

As I said earlier "ALL GRAIN TILL I DIE"


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[BarnsleyBrewer]

NONE. :sick:

 

[johnmcfarlane]

Uncle go on you tube and type making homebrew. The vids u want to watch are by craigtube. I agree AG prob makes the better beer overall. Im just lazy and dont want to experiment lol

 

[George]

Hi

I'm a newbie here.

I used to make Boots kits, Geordie bitter etc., before giving the hobby up about 20 years ago. I started again about 8 months ago and I've made Woodforde's Admiral's Ale and Nelson's Revenge which were great (still got some of the Nelson's Revenge in bottles in the garage). Just bottled Munton's Old Conkerwood and deciding what to put on next for the barrel.

I think that this forum will spur me on to really get back in to homebrew again.

I remember my grandparents making AG beer. Seemed a lot of effort but maybe I'll try one day.

George

 

[Aleman]

Craig faraway swears by premium kits and he is god on you tube.

Just as All grain brewers have a blind spot with regards to kits and the quality that can be achieved from them, Craig and his fanbois (sorry) have a similar issue/blind spot with all grain and the quality that is achievable with them. Yes it is a big investment in kit and time . . . but you don't see the great craft breweries opening tins of ready hopped extract, adding different sugars, and fermenting at some random temperature to produce their acclaimed beers

Im sure AG is great but seems a lot more hassle and time consuming for the same results as premium kits

All Grain is more hassle, it does consume a lot of time, but I'm afraid that it produces immeasurably superior results to even the premium kits, I still buy kits and I make them with the same attention to detail that I use with my all grain worts . . . and the results, while 'good', do not come up to the standards I would expect from my beers. I am also not restricted to brewing the styles of beer that the kit manufacturers supply . . . and quite frankly the concept that you can produce a 'light' coloured wort and ferment it with an ale yeast at ambient temperatures to produce a 'pilsner' is completely flawed . . . even if you do add a noble hop tea and 'sugar' to give it taste.

The quality of the Muntons produced kits over the last couple of years is truly shocking. Kits should not 'stick' with the frequency that Muntons kits do and the fact that they do not send out additional yeast to fix them, but provide Dry Beer Enzyme indicates that the problem is not of the 'brewers' making but has happened during the production (mashing) of the wort. . . . If a kit brewer gets a bad batch of extract then they are stuffed, with all grain you have total control over the process from start to finish (which takes longer).

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

I have tried some all grain a few times and have to say some of the premium kits are superior to the all grain :drunk:

Then all I can say is you have been unfortunate in drinking poor AG brews.

That's impossible, your a wind-up merchant arn't ya?? go on admit it. :hmm:
I agree with Mr.Snail, you must have sampled some bad ale :shock:
Although I'm told beer kits are now better than when I used them in the 80's they're surely no match for AG. :drink:

BB :shock: :shock:

 

[Aleman]

Craig faraway swears by premium kits and he is god on you tube

Craig who?

That would be Craig Farraway who has the Youtube channel Craig Tube . . See what Whorst on Jims thinks of him

 

[Aleman]

However just for fun

Best beer kits I've brewed with this year . . . Have got to be the 'Design A Brew' Kits from Hamstead homebrew. . . . Cans of good quality fresh hopped extract, (with decent QA And QC procedures), in a variety of colours / styles, with packets of grain for steeping (select your own from the range), and sachets of hops (select those appropriate for the style) . . . then pick a yeast that is appropriate to style.

Slightly more complex than making a basic kit but infinitely more flexible, and completely extendable. :thumb: :thumb:

 

[Rich85]

Mine would be the St Peter's IPA. By far the nicest kit I have done up to now.