The Home Brew Company Full Extract Discover America Pale Ale

[Pearlfisher]

This is my third attempt at an extract and the first using my burco boiler , wort cooler and hop filter.

The Liquid ME supplied with these kits is top quality ,equally as good as Cooper's LME.

I made it last Monday and plan to barrel it tomorrow , it will be interesting to see how it compares to their Golden Pale Ale which I made just using a pot on the gas cooker hob.
I've a HBC full extract American Pale Ale to make next ,but before I do I want to see which method provides the best results , if it's the pot & hob ,there maybe a boiler,chiller & filter going cheap!

 

[mrtickel]

Hello

Can you tell me How did this kit turn out for you. Im thinking of getting this kit and the irish red ale kit monday.

 

[Pearlfisher]

Hello

Can you tell me How did this kit turn out for you. Im thinking of getting this kit and the irish red ale kit monday.

Almost drank the keg now and it was very good although I prefer their American Pale Ale which isn't quite so hoppy.

 

[naturals]

I have a couple of questions on this kit if anyone would be kind enough to answer.

First off it'll be my first two can kit and also my first with hops. Can anyone confirm whether I have to boil the full volume of liquid with hops or, similar to my 1 can Coopers IPA, can I do a partial boil and top up with cool water in the FV? I only have a relatively small pan at the minute so it'd be preferable to boil say half the liquid and dilute down after boiling.

Secondly is the yeast that comes with it any good or should I be thinking of finding an American IPA yeast of some sort?

 

[Speccy]

I've just done this kit - yesterday, in fact! It's my second ever extract brew. (The first got infected and was poured down the sink and it's taken me a few months to pluck up the courage to try another.)

I haven't got a boiler, so I boiled the hops in a stockpot in around 6 litres of water along with about two-thirds of one of the tins of malt. I then added the rest of the malt towards the end of the boil, cooled the pan to around 50 degrees C in the sink, poured through a sieve into the FV and topped up with cold tap water. The temperature ended up at about 21 degrees C, so I was able to pitch right away.

No idea whether I've gone about it in the right way, but the sample tasted promisingly hoppy and the first bubbles were appearing in the airlock as I left for work this morning, so fingers crossed...

naturals - the yeast that came with my kit is US-05, which seems to be the standard choice for American-style brews. It's meant to give a drier finish than English Ale type yeasts I think. I chucked it in, anyway.

 

[Speccy]

By the way, does anyone know roughly what the OG of a 23-litre brew using two tins of LME and no other fermentables should be? I can't have stirred properly before taking my sample 'cos it came out at 1.030. I'm guessing that should be more like 1.040.

 

[naturals]

By the way, does anyone know roughly what the OG of a 23-litre brew using two tins of LME and no other fermentables should be? I can't have stirred properly before taking my sample 'cos it came out at 1.030. I'm guessing that should be more like 1.040.

Completely different kit but my Coopers IPA had an OG of 1.035 so you're not a million miles out.

Question on the Home Brew Company kit - it doesn't say whether any other ingredients are required to complete it. Can anyone who has finished a kit advise if it needs any sugar or spraymalt?

 

[Pearlfisher]

By the way, does anyone know roughly what the OG of a 23-litre brew using two tins of LME and no other fermentables should be? I can't have stirred properly before taking my sample 'cos it came out at 1.030. I'm guessing that should be more like 1.040.

Completely different kit but my Coopers IPA had an OG of 1.035 so you're not a million miles out.

Question on the Home Brew Company kit - it doesn't say whether any other ingredients are required to complete it. Can anyone who has finished a kit advise if it needs any sugar or spraymalt?

Nothing extra required except for priming for secondary fermentation.

 

[naturals]

By the way, does anyone know roughly what the OG of a 23-litre brew using two tins of LME and no other fermentables should be? I can't have stirred properly before taking my sample 'cos it came out at 1.030. I'm guessing that should be more like 1.040.

Completely different kit but my Coopers IPA had an OG of 1.035 so you're not a million miles out.

Question on the Home Brew Company kit - it doesn't say whether any other ingredients are required to complete it. Can anyone who has finished a kit advise if it needs any sugar or spraymalt?

Nothing extra required except for priming for secondary fermentation.

That's great - thank you.