What beer kit is the best for brewing Special Brew, Tennents Super style lager?

[An Ankoù]

Still drinking mine - let me know if thought it was anygood

Just opened a 25cl. Beautiful colour and smell. Just shy of 4 weeks in the bottle and not fully carbed and can taste a bit of priming sugar, which detracts from the crispness., It's going to be lovely, though, when it's ready. I don't know why I have a taster before a full six weeks has passed as bottle conditioning nearly always takes that long. I've started reusing 5L kegs and conditioning takes half the time for some strange reason. Will try another at the end of the month.

 

[strange-steve]

When I was young and foolish, I tried freeze distilling with no success. I don't know what I did wrong but the remaining liquor after removing the ice didn't appear to get any stronger.

I did this a couple of years ago when making an eisbock, the pics below are before and after freeze-concentrating. Doesn't look like a big difference but I removed about 3.5L of ice which increased the FG by 4 points (9% ABV up to about 11%) and made a big difference to the flavour. Didn't taste anything like special brew you might be disappointed to hear, but it did win a gold medal in a BJCP comp

 

[The Baron]

Just opened a 25cl. Beautiful colour and smell. Just shy of 4 weeks in the bottle and not fully carbed and can taste a bit of priming sugar, which detracts from the crispness., It's going to be lovely, though, when it's ready. I don't know why I have a taster before a full six weeks has passed as bottle conditioning nearly always takes that long. I've started reusing 5L kegs and conditioning takes half the time for some strange reason. Will try another at the end of the month.

I've just done another Rye which is half Irish malt and half Rye malt with some Munich. I have lightly hopped this with a single hop Azacca which I have never used before but only 50g so as not to overpower the malts, will hve to wait for this as its only been fermenting 4 or 5 days but really liking the Rye beers at the moment makes a change from IPA/IPA

 

[Scottyburto]

Can anyone reccomend any good rye kits? Enjoy the flavour of rye atm.

 

[An Ankoù]

Can anyone reccomend any good rye kits? Enjoy the flavour of rye atm.

Sounds like a partial mash project, perhaps?
edit:
or alternatively add some of this to your bitter or lager kit:
https://www.brewstore.co.uk/briess-cbw-rye-lme

 

[Scottyburto]

Nice one thank you!

 

[fury_tea]

Sounds like a partial mash project, perhaps?
edit:
or alternatively add some of this to your bitter or lager kit:
https://www.brewstore.co.uk/briess-cbw-rye-lme

I've used similar to make a rye IPA from a wilko kit and substiting DME for the rye [edit] LME. Came out pretty good actually.

 

[An Ankoù]

I've used similar to make a rye IPA from a wilko kit and substiting DME for the rye malt. Came out pretty good actually.

Do you mean you didn't use any rye malt?

 

[fury_tea]

Do you mean you didn't use any rye malt?

Sorry, correction: rye LME