For various reasons I will have to brew a few kits over the coming weeks. So rather than repeat what I’ve done before I thought I’d give a few from the Morgans range a try. If kit brewers have never heard of them, neither had I until a couple of weeks ago, when I found Brew2Bottle were more or less out of Coopers kits, so I decided to try Morgans kits since they had plenty (although you can also get them from the Homebrew Shop, perhaps other suppliers in the UK). Morgans are Australian and Coopers have an interest in them. Their range is quite varied and they all come in 1.7kg cans. More here...
http://morgansbrewing.com.au/products/beer-kits/Anyway this review is about the Morgans Golden Sheaf Wheat Beer, which, for me, sits within the ‘and now for something completely different’ category since I have only done one wheat beer before. Kit description says 'A golden yellow highly aromatic Weiss style beer with an excellent head and vanilla overtones. A classic Weizen bier clear and bright until chilled , then cloudy but golden'. I'm sure I’ll find out.
So yesterday I made up some Campden dosed brewing tap water and used that, plus kit can, plus 1kg Wheat DME, and 7g kit yeast, all to 21 litres and set the water bath to 21.5*C, OG about 1.041. And lo and behold 18 hours later I had to set up a blow-off tube, which I have kept under close scrutiny in case it blocked, but so far so good.
When the airlock is back and its finished I might add a hop tea with a few gm of Amarillo and/or Cascade, but I’ve never done this kit before before, so I don’t want to overdo things.
That’s it,
Further updates to follow.
Anyone else done this kit?
http://morgansbrewing.com.au/products/beer-kits/Anyway this review is about the Morgans Golden Sheaf Wheat Beer, which, for me, sits within the ‘and now for something completely different’ category since I have only done one wheat beer before. Kit description says 'A golden yellow highly aromatic Weiss style beer with an excellent head and vanilla overtones. A classic Weizen bier clear and bright until chilled , then cloudy but golden'. I'm sure I’ll find out.
So yesterday I made up some Campden dosed brewing tap water and used that, plus kit can, plus 1kg Wheat DME, and 7g kit yeast, all to 21 litres and set the water bath to 21.5*C, OG about 1.041. And lo and behold 18 hours later I had to set up a blow-off tube, which I have kept under close scrutiny in case it blocked, but so far so good.
When the airlock is back and its finished I might add a hop tea with a few gm of Amarillo and/or Cascade, but I’ve never done this kit before before, so I don’t want to overdo things.
That’s it,
Further updates to follow.
Anyone else done this kit?
