Hello,
I ended up with a couple of cans of this:
http://www.home-brew-online.com/ingredients-c45/thomas-coopers-extract-1-5kg-light-p543 The first can I used with a John Bull beer kit instead of brewing sugar. I wasn't too keen on the end result although my Dad quite liked it so he's now got a lot of free beer!
Am I being stupid here or is the following possible?
I was wondering what to do with the 2nd can and I thought it's malt extract which is basically what a beer kit is (that's right isn't it?) so couldn't I make my own beer recipe with it?
Put the can of malt with 1kg of brewing sugar, like a beer kit, and add the water and a sachet of yeast. Then after the most vigorous part of primary fermentation has calmed down hop it with something like this:
http://www.home-brew-online.com/ingredients-c45/cascade-finishing-hops-20g-p1098 then after a few days bottle as normal?
Would that work or am I missing something?
Cheers, Mike...
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http://www.home-brew-online.com/beer-kits-c1#t280
Excellent, thank you very much for the info, that's very useful and you answered a question I had on another post (what does LME stand for), now that's efficient!
I think I'll give that a go once the Simply Bitter I've got brewing (with added hops, it's really good with added hops, have made it before) is finished.
Cheers, Mike....