Ritchies Simply Mild Kit Good or What......?

[WalesAles]

Only Me.....
500gr Medium Spraymalt
1Kg Brewing Sugar
25gr Simcoe Hops 5 min boil
25gr Galaxy Hops 5 min boil
20 Lt Brew
OG @ 21 deg 1052
Day 7 Dry hop 25gr Simcoe and 25gr Galaxy
Day 14 FG 1012
80gr sugar batch prime into the leaky barrel.
This beer is Bloody Lovely Mun!
Looks Good, Tastes Good, Smells Good and Bloody Hell Does me Good!


WA

[Goat]

That looks like a winner to me!

[Psycho Mouse]

Looks good! I'm making a mild at the moment and I was cautious about over hopping, but I see that you've used quite a lot compared to my 15g of Northern Brewer (what I had in my cupboard).
Initial tasting from the FV are spot on for a mild to my taste. Do you think your mild, with all of the extra hops stays true to the variety?

[WalesAles]

Do you think your mild, with all of the extra hops stays true to the variety?

I don`t know, I only bought it because it was cheap, (just right for tweaking), never drunk mild before!
I am not like Jilly Goolden yet with all the tasting Faff that those people give, but I am getting there!
Smell OK, Taste OK, Looks OK, Sounds OK. Feels OK!
WA

[Psycho Mouse]

Fair enough, it looks a banging pint!

[timbo41]

WA give the geordies Scotch export kit a bash with ya normal malt/sugar and styrian goldings.....lush



edit Tenner kit or there abouts

[widdersbel]

25gr Simcoe Hops 5 min boil
25gr Galaxy Hops 5 min boil
Day 7 Dry hop 25gr Simcoe and 25gr Galaxy

Sounds lovely but...

I'm slightly baffled as to why you'd use a mild kit when adding that level of hops. Not criticising, just intrigued.

edit: sorry, just noticed that you've answered this question already. "It was cheap" seems like a perfectly good reason to me! I suppose also you could use a mild kit as a relatively "neutral" base for experimenting with hop flavours, though you'd have to take into account balancing the hops with the malt profile.

[WalesAles]

25gr Simcoe Hops 5 min boil
25gr Galaxy Hops 5 min boil
Day 7 Dry hop 25gr Simcoe and 25gr Galaxy

Sounds lovely but...

I'm slightly baffled as to why you'd use a mild kit when adding that level of hops. Not criticising, just intrigued.

edit: sorry, just noticed that you've answered this question already. "It was cheap" seems like a perfectly good reason to me! I suppose also you could use a mild kit as a relatively "neutral" base for experimenting with hop flavours, though you'd have to take into account balancing the hops with the malt profile.

Hello widders,
I will be buying this kit again just to play around with different hops, and because it`s cheap, what the hell. Monkeybrew has got a good way of experimenting with different hops, use a 2 can kit but split it to 2 X 10Lts brews then play around with the two brews!
WA

[widdersbel]

All sounds good to me. It's not a "mild" any more but if the end result is a highly quaffable pint, who cares?

I'd recommend trying a proper mild for comparison though. There are some very good ones out there. I'm normally a fan of hoppy bitters but a good mild goes down well on occasion.

[Monkeybrew]

I like your approach to hopping WA, no messing with the odd 20g in a full brew

How do you find the Simcoe, are they piney?

Cheers

MB

[WalesAles]

How do you find the Simcoe,

MB

Hello MB
I open the freezer and they are on the bottom shelf!

Can`t taste any pine in the brew. There is something there but my taste buds are not that good yet!
WA