The best kit you ever brewed?

[phatboytall]

Got some friends who I have gotten hooked on brewing. For now they just have keg setups and are filling them via kits and my spare brewing capacity.

What would people recommend as the best kit they have ever brewed?

[injac]

St Peters Ruby Red
Coopers APA

[DeadFall]

Coopers APA. brewed short, loads of light DME to boost the abv to around 7%. Steeped some crystal malt (about 50g I think) for 60 minutes in water at 66c before boiling it for 30 mins. Added cascade and belma at 5 minute intervals and dry hopped with belma after the main ferment had finished.

[BluePanda]

I like the Wherry, brewed short to 21 litres with 250g of light or medium spraymalt and dry hopped.

[Manngold]

St Peter's Golden Ale.

A lot of people have recommended Muntons: Smugglers Gold

[BertB]

So far....

Milestone IPA - came out quite a bit darker than the normal IPA (bottles were better than the barrel)

Evil Dog Double IPA.

[PhilB]

I like the Wherry, brewed short to 21 litres with 250g of light or medium spraymalt and dry hopped [with East Kent Goldings].

... +1 ... a friend of mine once said, after drinking several pints of this and listening to me talking about what I was planning on brewing next, "But why? This is so nice, why would you ever bother making anything else?" ... in a back-handed compliment sort of way, one of the nicest things anyone's ever said about any of my beers

And of course Ditch's Stout

Cheers, PhilB

[monkhouse]

For me it's gotta be muntons santas winter warmer- the first batch of this particular kit only tho, I literally just chucked it all together forgot hydrometer readings and I wasn't even that pedantic about sanitisation back then (5 years ago) and it just came out perfect and tasted exactly like Christmas to me, alas I've never been able to recreate the exact flavour with that kit since so I've just moved on to new kits.
Other than that- the wherry- it never ever fails to make a cracking pint!

[stout vern]

Youngs APA

[SquireKnott]

I can't separate Festival Endeavour (first kit I did) and "Fruit Salad" which was a Brewmaster IPA, 1kg of BKE and a big bag of three American hops I never learnt the names of (at a guess,a citra, Chinook, Amarillo maybe)

[Nikster]

Wilko sweet Newkie, robinsons lemon barley + 30g citra boiled for 15 mins, 1KG BKE, ferment for 10 days, 15g citra + 15g 7c dry hopped in secondary for 4 days.

[Cully]

Wherry all the way. Its gorgeous right out of the can - needs no hop or malt additions at all, would be a bit like gilding the Lilly. Made lots of times, never disappointed me. Its a beer that isn't too good when first made - it needs at least 8 weeks in the bottle after secondary fermentation but boy is it worth the wait. Most of the times I have seen people unsatisfied with it it hasn't been left to bottle condition long enough. Its a bit rough when green.

[dbg400]

Festival Razorback IPA - hands down winner for me. I also really like their Summer Glory golden ale, but elderflowers aren't to everyone's taste. I'm inclined to put Nelson's Revenge slightly ahead of the Wherry, though I've only done two of those vs half a dozen Wherrys, and I have another Wherry kit waiting to go, so there's not much in it At the other end of the beer scale I rate Milestone's Black Pearl (will be starting a tweaked one this weekend) and their Christmas special Donner & Blitzed as very good.

[woblylegs]

Brewferm, Abdij . its lovely.

[marcarm]

I've only done about 15 kits so far, but the real stand out for me was the Festival Summer Glory. Shame it was a Ltd Edition, my LHBS seem to think they have no plans to release it properly but I hope they do.