Quick Brew for Xmas - suggestions

[Hengoedbrewer]

I would go with one of the Festival range of kits. Better, in my opinion, than the Coopers kits. They contain 3kg of malt, hop pellets for dry hopping and even a bag with the correct amount of priming sugar. The Pride of London Porter and the Suffolk Strong Ale are both very good and will easily be ready for Christmas- still got 3 months yet.

I am a massive fan of porters and did the Pride of London as my second ever brew. I brewed to instructions except for adding 500g Dark DME, and although it was ok, I was actually disappointed with it based on a rave Youtube brewing / tasting video I saw. It had an odd sort of sour / bitterness to it, not at all the chocolate / coffee I was expecting. High probability it was my inexperienced brewing though.

[Ditch]

I am a massive fan of porters and did the Pride of London ..... not at all the chocolate / coffee I was expecting.

[Hengoedbrewer]

I am a massive fan of porters and did the Pride of London ..... not at all the chocolate / coffee I was expecting.

If that was a hint mate- I have done your stout ( well sort of- ditch-ish; no power drill; and I bottled the lot I have in my plans the 3 gall version as well....after a choc and vanilla Xmas stout from a YouTube recipe! I did the coopers dark as well- drinking it now- its not bad but not all I hoped for tbh. Still learning!

[Ditch]

I've really no concept of how my stuff would turn out from a bottle. But, I like my stout room temperature and 'flat'. I feel that lets the flavours through, rather than in any way disguising them.

We were finishing my stable roof, Sunday. Someone asked for a pint and I brought them out. I remember particularly being struck by the fact that it tasted almost like a glass of Nescafé! F**king beautiful!

That three gallon stuff? Careful with that! Utmost respect job. It's f**king deadly!

But, yeah, all that said? I like mine out of a keg. Not a fridge