Im a massive fan of Darkstars Hophead, APA, Revelation, Brewdogs 5am, punk and Thornbridge's Jaipur.
Does anyone know of any kits that come anywhere close to these? or even any kit that can be tweaked in some way to get anything approaching any of these?
Hoppy Beers
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Paddy Bubbles
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No, is the short answer.
One thing that kit beers tend to suffer from is lack of hop flavour and aroma. The beers you listed are mostly all about the hops. You can, however, modify the kit and add some hop tea and dry-hop aswell for extra measure. There's plenty of threads on JBK about these techniques.
I'd recommend the Coopers Sparkling Ale kit as a good base kit for this. Maybe substitute the kit yeast with US-05. Buy a bag of Cascade or Amarillo hops and make a hop tea with 40g. Dry-hop with another 40g. That will give you a nice hoppy beer.
One thing that kit beers tend to suffer from is lack of hop flavour and aroma. The beers you listed are mostly all about the hops. You can, however, modify the kit and add some hop tea and dry-hop aswell for extra measure. There's plenty of threads on JBK about these techniques.
I'd recommend the Coopers Sparkling Ale kit as a good base kit for this. Maybe substitute the kit yeast with US-05. Buy a bag of Cascade or Amarillo hops and make a hop tea with 40g. Dry-hop with another 40g. That will give you a nice hoppy beer.
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Re: Hoppy Beers
hi mate try the new festival range some of these are very hoppy just brewed the pilgrims hope very bitter and hoppy its worth a try 
soon be dead thank beer for that no pain where im going 
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nutmeg31415
Re: Hoppy Beers
Ive never dry hopped before, would I do this in the corney keg when I fill it up? Is it ok to use hops in the corney? Should I put them in a bag to stop them clogging everything up? Do I have to worry about the hops contaminating the beer?
As they come in 100g bags, I was thinking of opening the vaccuum bag, and doing a hop tea with 50g, then freezing the remaining 50g, and then putting the frozen lump in a steralised hop bag and dropping in the corney as I fill it, and then leaving it there for a month to mature, and then another month while its drunk.
Does that sound OK?
OR, should I do 50g in the hop tea, then just put the remaining 50g in the FV from day 1 ? I tend to leave my FV for 3 weeks before kegging. Is there a max time for dry hopping, or will this be ok?
As they come in 100g bags, I was thinking of opening the vaccuum bag, and doing a hop tea with 50g, then freezing the remaining 50g, and then putting the frozen lump in a steralised hop bag and dropping in the corney as I fill it, and then leaving it there for a month to mature, and then another month while its drunk.
Does that sound OK?
OR, should I do 50g in the hop tea, then just put the remaining 50g in the FV from day 1 ? I tend to leave my FV for 3 weeks before kegging. Is there a max time for dry hopping, or will this be ok?
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Re: Hoppy Beers
I found the John Bull IPA quite nicely hoppy, wherea sthe Coopers APA was a tad bland. The John Bull, with hop additions could be sensational I bet.
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neillf
Re: Hoppy Beers
I dry hop in the FV after approx 10 days fermenting. The max I've dry hopped for is 7 days and experienced good results, yes, bagged in a muslin bag weighted with a glass ball. I also tie the bag half way down so the hops are forced to submerge. I've never pushed to 50gm hop boil / tea or 50gm dry hop, maybe start with 30-40gm for each and build up based on results?