Not so good kits

[Matt12398]

I wasn't that impressed with the Coopers English bitter early on but after a good few months in the bottle it is pretty good.
With any 'one can' kit the quality of the extra fermentables will have the biggest impact on the final result.

I have kept 1 bottle of Coopers EB back in my maturing crate, so maybe I'll give it a taste over the weekend as it was bottled last November.

I found this to be a great kit. I brewed it with 1 kg of BKE2 and in my opinion is almost as good as the Wherry I brewed. I only brewed it a couple months ago but it tastes great. I'm going to have myself a couple over the weekend.

[Nohopebrewery]

Wilko's home brand light lager.

Just bottled this today and allready very dissapointed. The can promised about 4.5% abc but after testing the gravity it came out at about 2.5% abv. Also looks like water with very little colour and after a quick tast test reminds me of a can of tesco 24p larger.

Will lwt it condition for a month or so but will probably throw this down the drain if it a miracle doesnt happen to save it.

On ghe plus side i can then try the ginger beer kits i have been planning on just in time for crimbo.

[jabbathehut]

"How is the nog, just bottled 40 pints, quite looking forward to it!"

good i did it twice...impressive

[Monkeybrew]

I wasn't that impressed with the Coopers English bitter early on but after a good few months in the bottle it is pretty good.
With any 'one can' kit the quality of the extra fermentables will have the biggest impact on the final result.

I have kept 1 bottle of Coopers EB back in my maturing crate, so maybe I'll give it a taste over the weekend as it was bottled last November.

The results are in...... the bitterness has mellowed but the taste, or lack of it hasn't got any better IMO

[Barloch]

I wasn't that impressed with the Coopers English bitter early on but after a good few months in the bottle it is pretty good.
With any 'one can' kit the quality of the extra fermentables will have the biggest impact on the final result.

I have kept 1 bottle of Coopers EB back in my maturing crate, so maybe I'll give it a taste over the weekend as it was bottled last November.

The results are in...... the bitterness has mellowed but the taste, or lack of it hasn't got any better IMO

Anyone fancy swapping a can of coopers english bitter,,,,,,

[Monkeybrew]

It's only my opinion, you may love it!

If you like a Porter, EB makes a nice base for an adaptation? Or you could turn it into a Hop Gobbler

Or this http://www.coopers.com.au/the-brewers-g ... oth-bitter

MB

[Barloch]

It's only my opinion, you may love it!

If you like a Porter, EB makes a nice base for an adaptation? Or you could turn it into a Hop Gobbler

Or this http://www.coopers.com.au/the-brewers-g ... oth-bitter

MB

Think i might go for the hop gobbler and intruduce myself to grains, not tinkered with a kit yet, so will be interested to see how it turns out

[Barloch]

It's only my opinion, you may love it!

If you like a Porter, EB makes a nice base for an adaptation? Or you could turn it into a Hop Gobbler

Or this http://www.coopers.com.au/the-brewers-g ... oth-bitter

MB

Think i might go for the hop gobbler and intruduce myself to grains, not tinkered with a kit yet, so will be interested to see how it turns out