mattcarty
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 25/10/08
- Messages
- 194
- Reaction score
- 3
Hi
firstly I know im evil, i went to brewcraft and bought a kilkenny clone beer kit, oh the shame!
now i hope we can all move on from this controversial event and piece together the fragments of our shattered lives and deal with question at hand.
my problem is that the kit came with
1 can muntons yorkeshire bitter
15g fuggles t-bag
15g goldings t-bag
muntons gold yeast, not sure what type of yeast that is
and
the fermentable sugar that was added to the pack was a brewcraft mix looked like dextrose and LDME but who knows anyway I opened it up and it was hard as a rock grrrrrrr, probably could have boiled it up and got it disolved but thought using old crusty malt might be a bit detrimiental to the beer so in my panic i grabbed the only malt I had handy, a kilo of dark DME and dumped that in the brew
now i have never used dark malt before so will this recipe taste ok, obviousely wont be a kilkenny clone anymore but im wondering if it will turn out any good.
did i make the right choice by not using the old crusty malt that came with the kit or would this have been ok?
also another Q that comes to mind is do different types of fermentables give different alcohol percentage ie if i had used a kilo of LDME or dextrose or raw sugar instead of the DDME would I get the same %.
and for the record, lesson learned no more brewcraft kits.
cheers
carty
firstly I know im evil, i went to brewcraft and bought a kilkenny clone beer kit, oh the shame!
now i hope we can all move on from this controversial event and piece together the fragments of our shattered lives and deal with question at hand.
my problem is that the kit came with
1 can muntons yorkeshire bitter
15g fuggles t-bag
15g goldings t-bag
muntons gold yeast, not sure what type of yeast that is
and
the fermentable sugar that was added to the pack was a brewcraft mix looked like dextrose and LDME but who knows anyway I opened it up and it was hard as a rock grrrrrrr, probably could have boiled it up and got it disolved but thought using old crusty malt might be a bit detrimiental to the beer so in my panic i grabbed the only malt I had handy, a kilo of dark DME and dumped that in the brew
now i have never used dark malt before so will this recipe taste ok, obviousely wont be a kilkenny clone anymore but im wondering if it will turn out any good.
did i make the right choice by not using the old crusty malt that came with the kit or would this have been ok?
also another Q that comes to mind is do different types of fermentables give different alcohol percentage ie if i had used a kilo of LDME or dextrose or raw sugar instead of the DDME would I get the same %.
and for the record, lesson learned no more brewcraft kits.
cheers
carty