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[Review] HBC Irish Stout Extract Kit

Started by DrowningManatee, February 05, 2014, 01:28:27 PM

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GrahamR

Any ideas on the weights of the different grains used in this
Lifes Too Short To Not Make Beer

Fermenter 1 - Turquoise Lunar Showing

Fermenter 2 - Vitalift Cider

DrowningManatee

Not a clue meself man, id only be guessin
Primary :
Grapefruit mead

Secondary:
Orange Blossom Mead
Blackberry Mead
             
Bottled:

GrahamR

Put this on myself yesterday, smelled lovely in the boiler. Defo think they should include the weight of the grains so that you could order them yourself for future brews
Lifes Too Short To Not Make Beer

Fermenter 1 - Turquoise Lunar Showing

Fermenter 2 - Vitalift Cider

LordEoin

then you wouldn't buy their great product.

Paul B

What OG have people been getting with this kit?

Brewed it earlier today and had to rush out the door soon after putting it in the bucket so forgot to take a reading.  Took one a few hours later when I got home and it's 1.062!!

This is more than I expected for a stout...  is this usual?

DrowningManatee

I notice sometimes that the grainy bits sink to the bottom of the FV for the first few days, maybe its a bad reading if you're taking it from the tap?
Primary :
Grapefruit mead

Secondary:
Orange Blossom Mead
Blackberry Mead
             
Bottled:

bantamflush

Just put this on - can't wait to try it. OG was 1.043.

benji

Hey peps, just bought this kit myself along with 1.5kg of Dark LME and 1.5kg of Maris Otter LME. I was thinking of brewing this short to 20L as I would like a this to turn out at around 6%. I'm also gonna add .5ml of Bourbon essence to each bottle for the criac.
Can anyone tell me what the abv turns out when its brewed to 23l, also if I brew to 20L would I need to add some dextrose to get 6%
Tapped: Brown Porter, Dortmunder, Rye IPA
Bottled: Barrel RIS, Barrel Red Flanders, Oatmeal Stout
Fermenting: Barrel triple, NEIPA
Planned: Pilsner, Hazy Pale Ale, something Belgian

benji

Can any help a brother out, I'm hoping to brew this baby tonight
Tapped: Brown Porter, Dortmunder, Rye IPA
Bottled: Barrel RIS, Barrel Red Flanders, Oatmeal Stout
Fermenting: Barrel triple, NEIPA
Planned: Pilsner, Hazy Pale Ale, something Belgian

benji

OK I'm guessing anyone who has brewed this hasn't been on here since I posted these questions .
Anyway no matter, so I'm gonna give this a go tomorrow.

Brew the kit to 20l, add 400g of brown sugar.
But brew into primary for 7-10 days,

Add to secondary and dry hop with 30g fuggles for 7 days.

At bottle conditioning
add .5ml of bourbon essence per 500ml bottle
add .3ml of vanilla essence per 500ml bottle

I'm thinking I'm going to end up with a 6% stout similar to Leann Folan,
What do you guys think
Tapped: Brown Porter, Dortmunder, Rye IPA
Bottled: Barrel RIS, Barrel Red Flanders, Oatmeal Stout
Fermenting: Barrel triple, NEIPA
Planned: Pilsner, Hazy Pale Ale, something Belgian

DCLavs

Is this the HBC Full Extract Extra Irish Stout or just Irish Stout?

bantamflush

Sampled a bottle of this last night.

Primary for a week - secondary for over a month (I was busy...) and its been in the bottle for over two weeks.

Absolutely chuffed with it. Tastes great, nice bitterness to it. Decent head.

I'm gonna leave it now until Xmas.

shweeney

With these HBC kits, do you steep the grains or just throw them in the pot and boil them along with the extract?

armedcor

Quote from: shweeney on October 16, 2014, 03:43:21 PM
With these HBC kits, do you steep the grains or just throw them in the pot and boil them along with the extract?

Steep them.

shweeney

have the "Extra" version of this on at the moment.  Moved it to secondary tonight and was surprised at the amount of gunk at the bottom of the fermenter, a lot more than in any previous brew I've done.  I only did half the kit but threw in the whole whirlfloc tablet - could this be the cause of the extra trub? - I read somewhere that half a tab is enough for a full 23L batch so I may have used 4 times the necessary amount.

OG was 1050, its now at 1020 (though I took that sample from the tap with a lot of gunk) - anyone done this kit know where it's likely to finish?