Enhancing A Tinned Beer Kit Experiment

I consider myself in the home brewing world as an extract brewer. I mainly mash crystal malt with speciality grains and use dried spray malt and hops for the boils.  This method suits me down to the ground. I get a much higher quality of beer than the kits, and the variety of recipes to choose from is far and wide. However, I do occasionally brew kits, and there is no reason why the final product has to be of bad quality. So this brings me to my next experiment.

Single Hop Citra

This is a fantastic beer!

Very simple to make, and the results come out very similar to the old favourite award winning Oakham Ales Citra beer. This is a single hop beer, using one type of hop only.

The method to make this golden zesty beer is straightforward, the ingredients are as follows. You can follow my step by step extract guide located here to make this. If you want the beer a little stringer or weaker then just adjust the level of malt accordingly.

The Basic Simple Step By Step Of How I Brew Extract Beer

This is the full step by step method that I use for making my extract beers and ales. It is incredibly simple and a time and time again proven method. This will result in a bodied beer of around 4.5% by volume.

The method I use a involves only boiling a small volume of the wort and dried extract with the hops, and then adding the remaining extract after the boil.  I make batches of 23 litres (5 UK gallons), and my boil volume is 8 litres, which is roughly a third of the full volume.  This has 2 main advantages: