Which kit for a 'modern' british bitter?

[ThePour]

Hi all,

First post from a newbie.

I've just bottled a Mangrove Jack's Grapefruit IPA and want to go straight on to brew something for my pressure barrel. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

I would like to aim for something like Marble's Manchester Bitter or equivalent. Something that I recall crosses the new world/old world divide. Another recent cask beer I loved was Three Blind Mice's 'Old Brown Mouse' but understand that that maybe a little more obscure.

I'd be keen a for a kit recommendation that I could mod/customise/pimp to get me something along those lines. Oh and any help on how to 'improve' it.

I have pretty broad tastes when it comes to beer so anything that would give me a quaffable sub 5% bitter with a nice mouthfeel, some good hoppiness but is (arguably) a British bitter is where I want to get to.

Many thanks for your advice.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Tribute is good but not sure there's a kit. Directors kit is good as is St. Peter's Ruby Red.

 

[parpot]

Any of the Woodfordes/ Munton 3kg kits are good

 

[Clint]

I'd definitely have a look at the festival kits.

 

[MyQul]

I've never had any Marble beers but my favourite bitter is Session by Volden. I would definately say this is a modern British bitter. I would say the difference between a modern and a 'traditional' bitter is late hopping. Volden definately has late hopping but if you look at lmost all the Bitter recipes in Graham Wheelers, brew your own British real ale, almost all of them have just a 10 min addition (the odd one or two have a modest late hop). With a kit you could mimic late hopping such as a whirl pool addition/hop stand by adding some hop tea. A dry hop would also help too

 

[GhostShip]

I've found the Beerworks Craft Series to be very good kits and there are a number of 'traditional' bitters - you can read the reviews;

https://bit.ly/2r3KASD

 

[Graz]

Woodforde's Wherry, then do a bit of dry hopping if you want to make it a bit more interesting?

 

[ThePour]

Thanks all. I ended up going for a Wherry kit (again) as that is what the local homebrew shop had. I dicked around with it by steeping some malt and oats, then adding some spary malt. Have some Ekuanot hop pellets ready to go in soon.

 

[Rodcx500z]

Ekuanot is one of my favourite hops I used it a lot when I brewed kits, I never found the need to go above 30g most of the time I just chucked them in at the end for 4 days, I always found kits need time to come good