Favorite Recipie Kit

[nrock74]

I buy mainly kits for my brewing, some I have liked, some that are very lacking in body and/or flavor for the price.

Which ones are your favorites, and which one have you not liked or had to add many "extras" to in order to get a good beer.

My Favs....Brewer's Best Falconare's Flight, AHB's Citra Ale, Northern's Dead Ringer, MoreBeer's Blind Pig.

Not good....Brewer's Best Witbier, AHB's Kalamazoo IPA, Morebeer's Hop Monthra.

MY best, Hopslam #2 clone....my recipie

 

[unionrdr]

I like to use cooper's OS cans for recipes. I've used the cooper's OS lager & OS draught to make many styles of ale,depending on what I add to it. The BB summer ale kit my wife brewed as her 1st was pretty good. I don't buy many kits,I just like to mix-n-match to make styles of ale I like.

 

[GrumpySquirrel]

AHS has a great Two Hearted clone kit and the BB Imperial Nut Brown was excellent.

Nrock, you should PM me or post your Hopslam recipe!

 

[nrock74]

Here's the Hopslam Clone.

14lbs 2row
1lb Briess 40
2lbs Honey Malt

3lbs Honey @ 90 min
3lbs Honey @ Flameout

1oz Centennial for 90min
1oz Centennial for 75min
1oz Centennial for 60min
1oz Centennial for 45min
1oz Centennial for 30min
1oz Centennial for 15min
1oz Centennial for 0 min

Dry hop
2oz Centennial for 14 days, 2oz Centennial for 7 days.

Yeast
Safale 05, use starter or 2 pks

Mash @ 152 for 60 min
Rinse @ 170 for 30 min

Start boil with 9 gal, I actually ended up with almost 6 1/2 gal!!!

SG 1.084
FG 1.002
ABV 10.7%

I also did one of these and substitued the Centennial with Cascade and Falconare's Flight hops and it was good as well.

 

[unionrdr]

11oz of hops!? It's a good name for this beer!