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I doubt it. If you pick a kit you want to go with, maybe you could mail the makers to see if they can tell you more about it. Or maybe their websites will have a touch more info. Maybe <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> Yeah, slim chance probably.

Would love to attend!

&amp;quot;Irish Party Ale&amp;quot;:1lfrme19 wrote: Maybe if I dry hop them all that might help a bit...?[/quote:1lfrme19]Kit hacking is cheating: the kit beer should be only what's in the kit, plus a quality extra fermentable if strictly required.

8th May is the Copenhagen festival, so I'm out.

Yeah - well then Im a cheat ;-P
How does the 15th suit everyone?

I'm with TBN. For a fair comparison, the kit should be unhacked.

I had a think about this today while I was brewing and I have to agree. The right way to do this would have been to reverse engineer a kit beer (ie figure out as best you can the hops, yeast and malt used in it) and then make close approximations through the medium of all grain and extract. This isn't what I did <!-- s:? --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_confused.gif" alt="" title="Confused" /><!-- s:? --> .
Unfortunately, I put the dry hops in the beer yesterday... but this post isn't just here to placate TBN and Adeptus, oh no! This post is to suggest that someone else do this and then invite me round to sample the output!
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Anyway, I've made the 3 beers over the weekend... seeing as they're supposed to be in the name of science, I've come up with the imaginative names of
i (Cyclops)
ii (Aye Aye)
iii (Me myself and I)