Help with a beer kit

[punkrawkgeek]

I was given a beer kit from a friend. The Original Canadian Adventure Ale kit. I have been making beer and such for a little while, but i am clueless to these kits. I've heard they aren't all that good, and would like to make it a bit more tasty. It is a pre-hopped LME can, and yeast. Add malt, 1lb of dextrose and then pitch yeast.
I've got on hand a little bit of carapils and some flaked wheat. Plus 3lbs of wheat extract and various hops.
And ideas on what I should do???
Thank you.

 

[chickypad]

Is that wheat DME or LME? Either way you could make something like an American wheat by using all the wheat extract and the kit can (which looks to be 4 lb of hopped LME). That should give you 1.050-1.055 in 5 gals depending on if you have DME or LME. I would add a bittering addition to get the total IBU in the 25 range (how many IBU in the can?) then add some American finishing hops and a clean yeast like US 05. That might come out more of a pale ale as I think you'll only be in the 25-30% wheat range but that's okay.

 

[punkrawkgeek]

Is that wheat DME or LME? Either way you could make something like an American wheat by using all the wheat extract and the kit can (which looks to be 4 lb of hopped LME). That should give you 1.050-1.055 in 5 gals depending on if you have DME or LME. I would add a bittering addition to get the total IBU in the 25 range (how many IBU in the can?) then add some American finishing hops and a clean yeast like US 05. That might come out more of a pale ale as I think you'll only be in the 25-30% wheat range but that's okay.

It's DME that I have. I will just throw it all in. The can doesn't say anything about IBUs at all. I thought it would. I even emailed the company, and I just got sent the instructions again, and they didn't answer one question I threw at them. Heh. Useful.... We'll see what it turns out like, I guess... heh