On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Peter Wilson wrote:
 
> A popular hobby here in Canada is homebrewing beer from kits............
> Usually the instructions call for the addition of 2 kilos of sugar.
 
No!   1 kg or 1.5 is usual for added sugar.
 
> However honey works very well and the finished beer is very palatable.
 
Yes!  Honey is better than sugar to add to beer kits. Malt extract,
however, is better... [although mashing pale malt grains and adding the
resulting liquid to a beer kit is far better]....
 
> The best kits I have found are from Australia - Coopers.
 
Again, I disagree...there are much nicer kit beers that Coopers....
Coopers was the first beer kit that I tried and I almost never did
homebrewing again!!!!  But I gave it another chance with a Brewmaker
kit from the U.K. and decided to keep at it.
 
> Their STOUT - a dark beer- is very good.
 
The Coopers stout kit is O K ... it covers up the nastiness inherent int
the other coopers products, because of its heavy flavour.
 
BTW ...Use a strong flavoured honey for brewing or else just use sugar or
malt...dont waste the honey if you aren't going to taste the final effect
of the honey.
Cheers, Rob