Kit adaption advice please

[Monkeybrew]

I need some advice fellow brewers!

I am setting up an Xmass IPA using a Brewmaker IPA one can (I ordered the Better Brew I am familiar with but they sent this) plus a 1.8kg tin of amber malt.

I want this to be a nice strongish hoppy beer, so I was thinking adding 300g extra of dried malt and making a 10g hop tea with a 10-15 min boil, plus a 40g dry hop in the primary ferm. Do you think this will work?

I am brewing to 23L

 

[Pawlo7671]

I need some advice fellow brewers!

I am setting up an Xmass IPA using a Brewmaker IPA one can (I ordered the Better Brew I am familiar with but they sent this) plus a 1.8kg tin of amber malt.

I want this to be a nice strongish hoppy beer, so I was thinking adding 300g extra of dried malt and making a 10g hop tea with a 10-15 min boil, plus a 40g dry hop in the primary ferm. Do you think this will work?

I am brewing to 23L

It will but what I do is dissolve all the malt ( liquid or dry ) in to about 8 litres of boilling water and boil the hops in that for about 15-20 min, hops take far better this way, then add the kit.
Dry hopping works a treat but it only adds aroma that will after a few months in the bottle dissipate, instead try adding another 25g of hops with a low alpha acid 1 minute before the end of the boil, I find this works better than dry hopping.
Can't beat messing around with kits to put your own stamp on it tho.

 

[Monkeybrew]

Cheers Shandy :