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[Geffers]

Hi my name is Geoff (Geffers), I live in North East Lincolnshire and am new to home brewing. I have just ordered a starter kit from a company in York and eagerly awaiting its arrival.

The kit “says” it comes with everything I need including all ingredients. We shall see.

Anyone who can give me advice or help I would appreciate it.

Does anyone know of any home brew shops close to me I can visit, or where I can buy beer kits to brew. The types of beer I like is Theakstons, black sheep, hobgoblin

Look forward to chatting with you all.

 

[terrym]

Welcome to the forum.
What sort of starter kit have you gone for?
If it's an LME can or sachet based kit you might find find this useful, although some of principles apply however you brew.
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/...de-to-brewing-your-own-beer-from-a-kit.57526/And a book could also be useful. John Palmer's 'How to Brew' is very good and an online version is here
http://howtobrew.com/Cant help you much on a kit recommendation. Many newbies start with a Woodefords Wherry (try Wilko) which gives a malty bitter, and there is also Festival Landlords bitter which purports to be similar to TT Landlord.
Finally Brew2bottle have a good range of kits at reasonable prices and P&P is not exorbitant, and they are also Forum sponsors.

 

[marshbrewer]

Hi Geoff - I'm afraid there was a home brew shop in Grimsby but is closed in the last year or so. If you are brewing from kits, Boyes carry sone stuff, as do Wilko's. Other than that, you will either need to order off the internet or pick stuff up if you happen to be out and about (for instance, I'm often in Leeds area for work so pop into Morley Homebrew, and there was a place in Donny but I'm not sure if that's still open). Let me know when your kit arrives if you have any questions.

All the best.

 

[Geffers]

Welcome to the forum.
What sort of starter kit have you gone for?
If it's an LME can or sachet based kit you might find find this useful, although some of principles apply however you brew.
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/...de-to-brewing-your-own-beer-from-a-kit.57526/And a book could also be useful. John Palmer's 'How to Brew' is very good and an online version is here
http://howtobrew.com/Cant help you much on a kit recommendation. Many newbies start with a Woodefords Wherry (try Wilko) which gives a malty bitter, and there is also Festival Landlords bitter which purports to be similar to TT Landlord.
Finally Brew2bottle have a good range of kits at reasonable prices and P&P is not exorbitant, and they are also Forum sponsors.

I went for

 

[Geffers]

Hi Geoff - I'm afraid there was a home brew shop in Grimsby but is closed in the last year or so. If you are brewing from kits, Boyes carry sone stuff, as do Wilko's. Other than that, you will either need to order off the internet or pick stuff up if you happen to be out and about (for instance, I'm often in Leeds area for work so pop into Morley Homebrew, and there was a place in Donny but I'm not sure if that's still open). Let me know when your kit arrives if you have any questions.

All the best.

Thank you I will.

 

[Geffers]

Thank you I will.

I went for a woodfordes micro brewery with bottles - Norfolk nog

 

[Geffers]

Welcome to the forum.
What sort of starter kit have you gone for?
If it's an LME can or sachet based kit you might find find this useful, although some of principles apply however you brew.
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/...de-to-brewing-your-own-beer-from-a-kit.57526/And a book could also be useful. John Palmer's 'How to Brew' is very good and an online version is here
http://howtobrew.com/Cant help you much on a kit recommendation. Many newbies start with a Woodefords Wherry (try Wilko) which gives a malty bitter, and there is also Festival Landlords bitter which purports to be similar to TT Landlord.
Finally Brew2bottle have a good range of kits at reasonable prices and P&P is not exorbitant, and they are also Forum sponsors.

I went for a woodfordes micro brewery with bottles -Norfolk nog

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Welcome to the forum Geoff.

 

[starseeker]

Welcome Geoff ,
Good to have you here :)

 

[Gerryjo]

Hi and welcome to the forum...

 

[DCBC]

Welcome, Geffers! May I recommend James Morton's book 'Brew'? It contains a lot of useful info, even for kit brewing, and may give you some inspo if you want to go all-grain in the future (not that there is any need at all to do that, you can make fine beer with extract).

If you stick with kits it's still worth getting different yeasts from a homebrew shop like the Malt Miller and seeing what effect they have on your beer. Nottingham, Safale US-04, Lallemand Danstar Windsor are all suitable for English bitters but will all taste quite different from each other, and are likely to be more viable than the sachet you get in the kit. If you buy dry yeast you can stick it in the freezer and keep it pretty much indefinitely.