Newkie Brown Brew day

[supersteve]

Hi Everybody, figured I'd do this. Might help some people and some people might be able to give me advice for the future.

Ingredients

Left some water to stand over night with half a campden tablet in.

Sanitised bucket, spoon and water heater.

Beautiful can extract.

Pour that stuff in the FV

Added with boiling water and beer enhancer.

Top up to just over 20 Litres, gave it a serious stirring.

Hydro reading about 1.038, expecting about 4% ABV.

Pitched the yeast at about 23 degrees and now the waiting begins!

I don't think anybody has done a review on this beer yet so I will try and keep this up to date and maybe it can be turned into a review thread?

Thanks for reading, any advice welcome :

 

[Cainehulse]

I've recently just bottled a newkie brown can't wait for it to finish conditioning so I can tuck in I did the Samson's kit brewed to 20 litres with 1kg brew enhancer and 1kg dark dme turned out great infact I'm starting the wilkos one I've got tomorrow night

 

[Moley]

I don't think anybody has done a review on this beer yet so I will try and keep this up to date and maybe it can be turned into a review thread?

Add your review when it's properly ready for drinking and we can move the topic, and thanks for the photos.

Sorry if I disappoint you but I did brew this myself when they were selling all of their kits half price and the good stuff had already gone. I used brewing sugar (because it was a quid a kilo) but didn't have any enhancer or spraymalt, and I brewed it short at 20 litres.

I find there's something fundamentally unpleasant about it, and it has only been kept as a 'cooking beer', but works well in a beef stew or around a brisket. I will never brew another one can kit, at any price.

I hope yours with the enhancer turns out better.

 

[OnlyFerment]

I don't think anybody has done a review on this beer yet so I will try and keep this up to date and maybe it can be turned into a review thread?

Add your review when it's properly ready for drinking and we can move the topic, and thanks for the photos.

Sorry if I disappoint you but I did brew this myself when they were selling all of their kits half price and the good stuff had already gone. I used brewing sugar (because it was a quid a kilo) but didn't have any enhancer or spraymalt, and I brewed it short at 20 litres.

I find there's something fundamentally unpleasant about it, and it has only been kept as a 'cooking beer', but works well in a beef stew or around a brisket. I will never brew another one can kit, at any price.

I hope yours with the enhancer turns out better.

Oh dear, that doesn't sound good. I sampled mine from the trial jar after about 2 weeks in primary and it had a rather synthetic sweet taste to it which wasn't very pleasant. I was hoping it would improve once in the bottle, doesn't sound as though it does though.

This was brewed with 1kg brewing sugar and 1/2kg of medium DME.

Dave

 

[supersteve]

Cheers Moley, I suppose if it turns out terrible it will sit as a warning to other users! :lol:

I'll still keep my hopes up for it but I'd never expect top quality from a one can kit for under £10

 

[redhousebrewing]

I found the Brewmaker's Northumberland Brown Ale ok to pretty good (single 1.8kg can brewed with 1.25kg beer enhancer, came out as 4.1% ABV).
Also the Wilko Delicate Pilsner works well for me but agreed 2 can kits give me better results and often not much more expensive than single can after costing in beer enhancer rather than sugar.

Good luck!
Stuart

 

[iceo]

i did this kit last summer and didnt think much to it at the time but i had a mini keg a few weeks back and it was very drinkable after 6+ months

i used medium spray malt

 

[Cainehulse]

How's this brew going? Very interested to see how it turns out I've just craked a bottle of the Samson's newkie brown kit I did been bottled for a week now it's carbonated perfectly don't think it's gonna see another week or cold conditioning tastes so good

 

[supersteve]

Good to hear your brew is tasting good Cainehulse, this one seems to be fermenting quite well at the moment. Cracked it open ever so slightly to have a sneaky peak and it smelt delicious. Looking forward to its progress! :drink:

 

[supersteve]

Just took a sample today, 8 days in and it's down to 1,008 so it works out to around 4% which is spot on so It's finished :thumb:

Taste tested the sample and it seems drinkable at the minute! very much like Newcastle Brown, I'll rack it into a secondary in the next couple of days and add some finings :

 

[SomersetBrewer]

Never done a kit like this but i hope this works out for you Steve. :thumb:

 

[Tim84]

I've got this in FV1 at the moment, brewed full but with 500g beer kit enhancer and 500g medium spray malt. Used bottled water too as first three brews have a chemical tang.

This thread inspired me to crack open the FV for the first time since it went in 17 days ago.

Tastes really quite nice already, very surprised! Now to finish my Wherry so I can keg and secondary ferment this Newkie Brown!

Seems to have stopped at 1.010 so could have stalled but I think that's probably just my lot.

 

[supersteve]

Sounds good Tim!

Just racked off the Brown and added the finnings.

 

[Cainehulse]

How did the bottling go? I'm starting this on Sunday can't wait hope it's as good as the one I'm drinking now I bottled a pils today n had a few bottles smash how much priming sugar did you use?

 

[supersteve]

Dry hopped this on wednesday 2 days before bottling with Target hop tea bag
I don't know much about hops so I'm interested to see what flavour this brand will bring to this beer.

Target - An English Hop, mid to high Alpha, bred from Kent Goldings with distinctive bittering qualities for English Ales and Lagers.
An excellent high alpha variety which gives good bitterness. Tends to be too harsh for aroma purposes late in the boil but has produced very good results when used as a dry hop in the cask.

Batch primed with about 90g of sugar, 50g of brewing sugar and 40g of granulated. (I had 50g brewing sugar to use up)

Got about 39 Bottles out of this batch, can't wait for the carbonation to begin and try it in a week or so!

 

[proost]

Dry hopped this on wednesday 2 days before bottling with Target hop tea bag
I don't know much about hops so I'm interested to see what flavour this brand will bring to this beer.

Target - An English Hop, mid to high Alpha, bred from Kent Goldings with distinctive bittering qualities for English Ales and Lagers.
An excellent high alpha variety which gives good bitterness. Tends to be too harsh for aroma purposes late in the boil but has produced very good results when used as a dry hop in the cask.

Batch primed with about 90g of sugar, 50g of brewing sugar and 40g of granulated. (I had 50g brewing sugar to use up)

Got about 39 Bottles out of this batch, can't wait for the carbonation to begin and try it in a week or so!

Let us know how this turns out.

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[supersteve]

3 weeks in the bottle and it's tasting pretty good even if I say so myself.

Came out more black than brown? the target hops made it taste quite smooth with a lovely light aroma.

I'd recommend this kit :thumb:

:drink:

 

[stan]

drinking one of these as we speak, brewed mine to 23l 1kg brew enchancer 500g dextrose og 1.52 fg 1.12 primed bottles with 1tsp dextrose bottled 9/1/14 worked out at 5.3% not a bad pint very drinkable as said turned out very dark not what i was expecting for a brown ale bit of a strange after taste but at 35p a pint im not one to complain

 

[Lesinge]

Brewed this to instructions but with 1kg Muntons beer enhancer. Left in fermenter of about 10 days and in secondary bottling bucket for 4 days. 1 week in warm and a few days so far out in the garage. As others have said, it is almost black rather than brown but is already carbonated to produce an initial large head that calms down to a thin film that stays throughout the drink. Smell similar to Muntons nut brown ale but not as deep and long a taste. Pleasant mild but not lingering brown ale taste with a slightly powdery after taste. This may disappear after a while in the bottle if it lasts that long. Popular at the weekend with a couple of people. Not bad at all for a one can kit.