Help - the geordie mild question...

[abaxas]

Just a quickie...

I popped into wilko's today and couldn't resist the geordie mild kit at 4.99 and some of their 'beer enhancer'.

However I'm not sure what to do as I have many options.

1) Do the kit with 1kg of glucose and the provided yeast
2) use the 'beer enhancer' and some safale-04
3) other general combos of the above etc, saving the 'beer enhancer' for another day.

Answers on a postcard etc.

[Hoppkins]

No brainer for me, im doing lager kit with the beer enhancer and S04 yeast.

I guess you only get out what you put in. Beer enhancer is a mix of spray malt and glucose and will undoubtedly be better than sugar/glucose alone.

[james_m_r]

Whats wrong with the yeast supplied with the kit?

[chopperswookie]

jsut to add my two-pennies worth I haven't done a bad Geordie kit yet. OK they are the bottom end of the scale but even with some tate and lyle it came out fine.

[james_m_r]

Did you do them with the yeast supplied?

[sparky Paul]

I'm drinking a Geordie Bitter as I type (Xmas present).

I made it with 1Kg of medium spraymalt and the yeast supplied - no problems fermenting the 100% malt addition, and it tastes okay... Well most of it has gone, so it can't be that bad!

[bettyswallocks]

Geordie mild, medium or dark spray malt and a few fuggles hops and I reckon your on a winner.
cheers

[PieOPah]

I've never understood why people worry aboutt he yeast that is supplied with a kit. Every kit I made I used the yeast that came with it and it was absolutely fine.

Now if I had a kit that had been sitting around for a number of years then I would be inclined to use a different yeast, but other than that I'd use as is.

[abaxas]

Quick update as I've just finished bottling it...

Made with the 'beer enhancer' and s04. Tasted good out of the fermator so lets hope for good things after a few weeks in the bottle.

Infact it tasted rather like a posh 'fed ordinary'.