Brupack’s Birkby Bitter
January 19, 2009I’ve been a bit lazy and should have blogged about this brew a while back. The brew itself is now about 5 weeks old and tasting amazing. This is one of the first kits I tried and one of my favourites, second time round it doesn’t disappoint. Even though it winter and pretty cold the brew went ok, it got down to 1.012 gravity which is close enough altough it did take 2 weeks to get there (and I had to mix it up half way through). After bottling I placed in my favourite spot next to the radiator in the lounge. After a week I was disappointed to find it completely flat! But with some patience it soon developed it’s fizz and is now a top quality beer.
Out of all the kits I have tried I have been consistently impressed with the Brupack’s. I think it appeals to my beer taste, golden and hoppy, the hop bag you get in each kit helps a lot!
I’ll maybe make that one of my next brews, sounds nice : I tried a Great Eastern with some elderflower + beer tea last night and am anticipating a Golden Champion clone with some luck (my last Great Easter was horrid, something went badly wrong with it)
I do like my beers hoppy too, the idea of boiling your own hops into it is very attractive : I added some extra hops into a wheat beer recently and it added some lovely flavours.