What is your favourite kit?

[Hyster]

I have a Coopers lager in a newly purchased cornie keg that does not taste all that impressive at the moment, hoping it improves dramatically in the coming weeks.

I have a Coopers wheat beer bottled for only a week, tested one last night, no head to speak of but was quite surprised by how nice it tasted already.

So!, now I've got the bug, what I really want to know is......

What is your favourite kit? Which has been the most impressive you have tried? :hmm:

 

[calumscott]

Three of them that I would say were top notch:

- Better Brew IPA, made with LME and dry hopped with Chinook
- Muntons Gold Midas Touch dry hopped with East Kent Golding (maybe the best kit I made...)
- Ritchies Festival London Porter

 

[morethanworts]

As of last night, Brewferm Abdij. Great if you like the dark trappist styles. Think Rochefort 6 as a guide. Terrific, even though I need to keep my hands off it for a while!

My Woodforde's Wherry has come out great too, though I dry hop it, use extra yeast and brew to 21.5 litres.

 

[danb]

having only done 2 kits before biab, wherry is definitely worth doing and is a brilliant pint even made to the instructions.

 

[alanywiseman.]

I think you get what you pay for. the Wherry is good but for me the best kits I have done are Barons Plae Ale, Barons Canadian Golden Ale and Brupaks Beers of the World Belgium Christmas Ale (This is really excellent!!!). All 3 have knocked the socks off the toucan kits I have done.

 

[Brewbob]

You do get what you pay for. So far my fav has been Festival Golden Stag, but I had very good results with the two Wherrys, they just need A LOT of patience

 

[PD]

Without doubt. St Peters Red Ruby Ale.

 

[Sandimas]

- Wherry
- Coopers Stout
- Coopers European Lager (with an extra hop tea bag)
- Muntons Bock (no one seems to mention it on here, but surprisingly good and moorish)

For the 1-can kits, brew them short and with Enhancer rather than sugar :thumb:

 

[morethanworts]

- Wherry
- Coopers Stout
- Coopers European Lager (with an extra hop tea bag)
- Muntons Bock (no one seems to mention it on here, but surprisingly good and moorish)

For the 1-can kits, brew them short and with Enhancer rather than sugar :thumb:

...unless they're designed to do a smaller batch size, like the Brewferm one I mentioned.

 

[daf]

Coopers Original Stout

 

[winelight]

Surprisingly, Young's Harvest Mild, I like this one a lot. I enhanced it with something, sure, although I don't remember exactly what. Probably just some DME and interesting sugar. Plus a lot of the ones mentioned above are excellent too, depends what you like, really.

 

[mikeyjay84]

- Wherry
- Coopers Stout
- Coopers European Lager (with an extra hop tea bag)
- Muntons Bock (no one seems to mention it on here, but surprisingly good and moorish)

For the 1-can kits, brew them short and with Enhancer rather than sugar :thumb:

when you say short... you mean... time-wise short or short in the sense that you use one can, but less water? If so, how much would you make up?

Thanks!

 

[winelight]

Brewing short means less water, for example brew to 20l instead of 23l. Instead of doing that, with 1-can kits I add extra DME / LME / hops.

 

[Mark-h]

If you liked the coopers wheat beer try muntons conisseurs wheat or even better is brupaks west riding wheat which is my favourite by far

 

[Hyster]

Many thanks for the input guys, much appreciated.

 

[mmaguy41]

St peters ruby red and ipa are lovely, ive also enjoyed all of the richies festival kits. Barons mexican cervesa was a very good kit also.