Poll...Once on the Darkside have you gone Back???

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Since I went over to the darkside years ago I've never gone back, has anyone else?? :hmm: :hmm: :hmm:

BB

 

[highwayman]

The kids bought me a Morrison's Lager last Christmas . so I made it to please them!! Plus I was curious to see if kits had improved!!
When I opened the first bottle.. it brought back the memories from 20 years ago when I
Last made Kits!!
It was gassy, tasteless and thin!!
That said I do read that our friends on here still make Kits and enjoy them! Perhaps Morrison's was not right for me :cry:

However, I'm on the darkside now and I'll never go back

 

In the begining I did a couple of kits which I thought were bloody awful, then I discovered Dave Line!
Last year I did a "Wherry" just so that I knew what the present day "kit" brewers were talking about.
It was bloody awful!
Thus I had to vote "just to tell the difference".
I'll never go back again, ever.

 

[legionbob]

I have never brewed anything but kits - yet, so ive nothing to compare against. but i do intend making the step over to the dark side in the end. I do play around with the kits now and find that makes a big difference to the taste. I have just made a nice stout with a cinder toffee after taste!

 

[prolix]

I lost the used of my garage and downstairs a few years ago, after a flood, and needed some more beer, so brewed a wherry as I remembered it being a great pint... I was sorely disappointed for a fraction of a second, to be replaced by ellation that my brews were really that good, to be replaced by realisation that I had 39 more pints to kill. It was a tough job but I was man enough for the task

 

[Moley]

I have also had to select the “just to taste the difference” option, mostly down to this thread, because I felt I had to brew a 2-can kit to see what people were talking about.

I also brewed a Wherry, it took ages to clear, it really wasn't that great after 3 months and I almost threw it away. By 6 months it had improved and I did drink it all, but I'm never going back again.


POL ... ?
Is that some sort of new acronym? Peeing Oneself Laughing?


Rat! He's edited the title - how do you do that?

 

[Dieseljockey]

I've got a Muntons kit in the back room that I will do after we get back from our holls...in a few weeks. Go back to kits!!! who knows what's around the corner...????? For the future no. :thumb:

 

[Aleman]

Yep I still do kits


:shock:


I am very selective in the kits I do (nothing at all that has anything even closely related to muntons :lol:), and the results are more than aceptable . . . In fact my next brew day will be for a Wheat beer in a kit. . . . The York Brewery kits are cracking . . . shame there is only two in the range

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Yep I still do kits
:shock:

 

[Dieseljockey]

Yep I still do kits


:shock:


I am very selective in the kits I do (nothing at all that has anything even closely related to muntons :lol:), and the results are more than aceptable . . . In fact my next brew day will be for a Wheat beer in a kit. . . . The York Brewery kits are cracking . . . shame there is only two in the range

So I'll be wasting my time in doing the Muntons then????? :wha:

 

[Cussword]

I'm only on my second AG brew tommorrow, so I haven't had time to. :grin:

 

[Sean_Mc]

I voted no cause I haven't done a kit now since Xmas, but have tasted friends lager and Wherry recently and was quite surprised by how thin they tasted, nothing like I remembered them.

I don't drink out at pubs much but have attended a couple of weddings over the Summer and the beers there were quite awful.
Seems my tastes have changed, used to love a pint of Guinness in pub or a couple of bottles of spitfire in the house. On the weekly shop I sometimes get a couple of bottles of pale ale, the few I'd buy again would probably be SNPA or Badgers GG

 

[Aleman]

I used to really rate the Muntons top of the range premium kits (The Pilsner was excellent), but I feel the quality control has gone downhill drastically in the past few years . . . especially for the 'Non Muntons brand' kits they do . . . Like Woodfordes . . . There are other extract producers, and the kit manufacturers that use them are on top of the QC . . . A cheap product is not necessarily a good product . . . and Muntons stuff is not all that cheap.

 

[micmacmoc]

I had'nt until i made 'ditch's stout' recently, its a good pint. I have so little time in the summer months that it was the only option.
Other than that time I did a coopers draught, tastes awful. I still have some lager kits and am toying with chucking them into a strong brew like a barley wine or RIS, anyone else done this?

moc

 

[rickthebrew]

Since taking the blind leap to the dark side last year and enjoying the whole process of designing my own recipes with great ingredients almost as much as drinking them I don`t think I would do another kit, before going AG I did around 15 plus kits of all qualitys, worst was a geordie bitter and the best were some coopers lager and mexican lager kits after about 8 weeks bottled. If i had one now i probably wouldn`t think much of it :lol: I did a few wherrys but became dissapointed with it in the end

So the darkside for me for ever :twisted:

 

[Moley]

If I had one now I probably wouldn't think much of it :lol:

Although they are now well over a year old, I still have a few bottles of my earlier kit brews down the cellar.

They only ever get used as ‘cooking beers’ and will never be drunk for their own sake.

 

[Tony]

I haven't done a kit in ... just over 430 years...

or something like that.


I have to go along with rick ... the ability to mix and match, try new things, add a bit of this, try a bit of that, adjust the other.... not to mention the sheer enjoyment of a good 5 to 6 hours engulfed in your own little project, immersed in your own (not so little) world.... f&%$ .... I'm getting straight onto BeerSmith to plan the next one

 

[rickthebrew]

I really do love brewing :thumb:

 

[unclepumble]

I made a woodfords wherry at the beginning of last year after turning to the dark side, & tio be honest I thought my little un had pooped in the keg, Never again shall I open a tin, Unless its lyles golden syrup tin to add to an AG Brew.



UP

 

[Baz Chaz]

The more I read ......... the more I'm tempted

I've only just returned to brewing, how long can I leave ti until I tell Mrs C I want a boiler etc :? so much better than kits darling