Want to get my terminology correct

I have been doing "malt extract" kits for my past few brews. However it seems if I talk to a brewer about doing an extract kit they assume I am referring to a no boil, pre hopped, coopers LME type kit.

The kits i have been using come from morebeer.com. They include grains that I steep for 30 mins before doing a full 1 hour boil that includes at-least one addition of hops.

Is there a word for this type of kit? "advanced malt kit" or something?

Extract with steeping grains is what those are usually called.

"Extract with grains" is the usual terminology. The word "steeping" is implied.

Gotcha, thanks!

As a general rule these taste better than the non grain malt kits correct?

One other question.. The very first brew we made was a "true brew" kit that did not have grains. It was a "nut brown ale" and we loved it. Is anyone familiar enough with this kit to recommend a extract with grain kit that would be very similar?

JonClayton said:

Gotcha, thanks!

As a general rule these taste better than the non grain malt kits correct?

One other question.. The very first brew we made was a "true brew" kit that did not have grains. It was a "nut brown ale" and we loved it. Is anyone familiar enough with this kit to recommend a extract with grain kit that would be very similar?

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That's a loaded question, much like the "What is better AG or Extract?" threads. For one thing, taste is subjective, secondly and most importantly the skill of the brewer is what makes a better tasting beer. If one does not have their process down, especially their sanitation regimen, then that is going to be a big bearing on the finished product, as is tome in fermenter, using a hydrometer, doing full boils, temp control, late extract addition, bottle conditioing, stuff like that.

A guy making a coopers kit who does a lot of the afore mentioned things correctly is ultimately going to have a better finished beer, than is the guy who brews another type of kit, or even AG for that matter, who schluffs off sanitization, leaves the beer in the fermenter for a week without bothering to take a grav reading, doesn't control their temps during fermentation, and starts drinking the beer after a week in the keg...

I say it over and over, it's not the method (or type of brewing) but the brewer who makes great beer.

JonClayton said:

Gotcha, thanks!

As a general rule these taste better than the non grain malt kits correct?

One other question.. The very first brew we made was a "true brew" kit that did not have grains. It was a "nut brown ale" and we loved it. Is anyone familiar enough with this kit to recommend a extract with grain kit that would be very similar?

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That was my first kit too, and I thought it did have some steeping grains.

All of the big online suppliers (Austin Homebrew, Northern Brew, etc.) have Nut Brown kits.