[DrDirt]

I’m new to home brewing and bought the Number 8 All-Grain kit from Northern Brewer a while back. I’ve decided I don’t want to make it, but I still want to use the grains.  Anyone have suggestions on what I could do with this? I enjoy low hoppy beers. I was thinking of possibly switching out the yeast, maybe trying a different hop? Thoughts?

Link to the Number 8 grain bill: http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/allgrain/AG-TheNumber8.pdf

[Steve Ruch]

Some chocolate malt, English hops and yeast would make a nice brown ale.

[martinj]

Cut the crystal to 1 lb, the pilsner to 9.5, use an ounce of tradition and 1/2 oz hersbrucker at 60 minutes, a half ounce of hersbrucker at 30 or 45 minutes, and your choice of ale yeast, and you'd have a pretty nice, light to moderately hoppy (maybe 30-35 IBU) pale ale. Or, if you want to give a lager a try, the same grain bill would make a  pretty good pilsner with, say, WY2278. I would only use a half pound or so of crystal though, max, and I would probably only use 9 lbs of pilsner malt. OR, use kölsch yeast with the same grain bill and brew a kölsch.

[santoch]

If its a kit then the grains are likely already mixed together, I'd bet.

Like Steve Ruch said, I'd go Brown Ale or a little further and make it a Porter.

I'd add Chocolate malt (add a bit of Black Patent malt to make it a Porter).  Save the corn sugar and candi sugar syrup for a different batch (IIPA or a different Belgian?). I'd hop it with English hops (Target or Challenger for bittering, a bit of EKG at 10) to the tune of about 30 to 35 IBUs and use WLP007/Wyeast1098 or WLP002/Wyeast1968 or Nottingham

[bierview]

If its a kit then the grains are likely already mixed together, I'd bet.

Like Steve Ruch said, I'd go Brown Ale or a little further and make it a Porter.

I'd add Chocolate malt (add a bit of Black Patent malt to make it a Porter).  Save the corn sugar and candi sugar syrup for a different batch (IIPA or a different Belgian?). I'd hop it with English hops (Target or Challenger for bittering, a bit of EKG at 10) to the tune of about 30 to 35 IBUs and use WLP007/Wyeast1098 or WLP002/Wyeast1968 or Nottingham

Nottingham has always produced very drinkable ales.

[Steve Ruch]

Like Steve Ruch said, I'd go Brown Ale or a little further and make it a Porter.
I'd add Chocolate malt (add a bit of Black Patent malt to make it a Porter).  Save the corn sugar and candi sugar syrup for a different batch (IIPA or a different Belgian?). I'd hop it with English hops (Target or Challenger for bittering, a bit of EKG at 10) to the tune of about 30 to 35 IBUs and use WLP007/Wyeast1098 or WLP002/Wyeast1968 or Nottingham

That would also work.