Briess CBW - Concentrated Brewers Wort

[ColmR]

Hi all,
Anyone have any experience with this particular product? I've seen a UK shop that sells it.
http://www.brewingwithbriess.com/Products/Extracts.htm#WSS

It reads well and I'm wondering would it work well along with a hop extract to do a beer almost as easily as a kit but with much more control. Time hasn't allowed me to do an allgrain beer recently and I'm thinking I could buy a couple of cans of this, add some hop extract for IBUs, add some "hop tea" for flavour, use a decent yeast, dry hop and do a temp controlled fermentation.

It'd not be cheap, but I reckon there's a chance that I'd get a much better beer than from a kit.
Any thoughts?

[ColmR]

Bump...
Anyone? Any thoughts?

[Bubbles]

Ffs..

That's cheating!!

[Garry]

Concentrated Brewers Wort = Malt Extract, doesn't it? Sounds like marketing BS to me but I'm open to correction.

What makes this stuff any better than the Muntons' LME that's available over here? You can get a can of pre-hopped Munton's LME and that would save you trying to get IBU's from hop extract.

Then add another tin of LME or 1kg of DME with a hop tea. Some steeping grains for colour/flavour too if you want?

[Damofto]

These Weyermann ones at the Homebrew company seem similar to me, like yourself haven't been able to do any AG for a while I might give one a shot

https://www.thehomebrewcompany.ie/weyermanns-vienna-red-4kg-p-2321.html

[ColmR]

Cheers lads. Didnt know about the wyermans one but it's pretty dear. What I liked about the briess one was how the various options had carapils/munich/Rye etc in the malt bill to save having to do a mini mash. I was thinking of a rye IPA with a can of the rye extract and some normal high quality lme. I'm determined to try a brew like this. I don't want to even bother with steeping grains and certainly don't want to do a boil. So will be bittering with hop ectract. Plan on making a purchase one way or another and will report back. If anyone has any other suggestions or experience brewing like this let me know.

[ColmR]

In the end I didn't go with the Briess. Too expensive with shipping etc...

But last night I did brew an extract with no specialty malt, and used hop extract. I used a couple of cans of Muntons Maris Otter extract. Took 1hr 15mins from heating up water to pitching yeast. If it comes out half decent I'll report back.