AK47 Pale Mild attempt

I just received my AK47 Pale Mild extract kit from Northern Brewers. This will be my second brew. I had a few questions, first was:

What are your opinions of this beer? How many have brewed this, whether extract or AG?

and

The AK47 came with Kent Goldings. I have about a quarter ounce of both Cascade and Perle hops from my last batch of Cascade Pale Ale. Should I add some of these to the AK47? My only fear is that it will be too similar to the Pale Ale in my fermenter?

I have not had that kit, so I cannot comment on your first question.

As to the second question, you typically do not want to go overboard with the hops in a mild. It isn't true to style, and since you are starting at a low original gravity, your gravity to bitterness ratio can get thrown off pretty quickly. With mild, malty and easy drinking is the name of the game. I would brew with the provided hops, and keep the Cascade and Perle in the freezer for use in another beer.

I have made this beer...and really liked it. Don't add the other hops though.

bribo179 said:

i have made this beer...and really liked it. Don't add the other hops though.

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This was one of the last beers I made. I didnt use a kit but I did allgrain and based it off of AK47. I use half choc malt/ Crispbrown malt plus a bit of light munich along with using NZ Hallertau hops. No sugar though. Had a OG of 1.04 FG of 1.013. Used Windsor, turned out really good.
I would just leave the recipe as is. I only subbed because its only what I had on had so therefore I really dindnt make that beer just something somewhat of the same style,but I bet if I made the actual recipe that they would taste pretty different from each other.

Kit was ok, not great but BMC drinkers at my BBQ were big fans. I Wont be making it again.

just finished tasting my FG sample of this brew. VERY tasty and got some solid body to it for being such a light beer. Only 4.75 gallons in the fermenting bucket due to boil off, but that shouldnt' make much different.

instead of doing it with the Windsor yeast I used S-04 since it's what I had on hand and this was such a cheap and simplistic brew. very tasty and I'm glad to have something sessionable. I made 2 batches of Sasion that I'm chewing through and it's pretty beefy at 7.8%

wormraper said:

got some solid body to it for being such a light beer.

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That's Mild in a nutshell. Go easy on the carbonation so that you don't lose that body. Sounds like you are well on your way to some great beer.

HerbieHowells said:

That's Mild in a nutshell. Go easy on the carbonation so that you don't lose that body. Sounds like you are well on your way to some great beer.

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sweet. on the carbonation. how many volumes you think I should go for???? I'm not finding a "mild" in the drop down menu for the calculator's "style" choices.

See what they say for English brown ales or bitters. 1.5 to 2 volumes seems to be the sweet spot.

HerbieHowells said:

See what they say for English brown ales or bitters. 1.5 to 2 volumes seems to be the sweet spot.

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kewl, that should work,

just bottled today. Tastes amazing for being a light $16 extract beer.