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Coopers PA Melbourne Bitter Coopers 62 Pilsner James Boags Premium Squires 150 Lashes No fancy brews here,, Easily pleased, Love tasting and testing new & o/seas beers, Just haven't done much of it :)

Iv'e just as of a few weeks back finished my first kit beer,, me and the BIL got his old coopers kit and bought it back to life with some intense cleaning and sanitising, then headed to the local home brew shop, The fella there was great, put up with our newbie questions and was very patient...

I did a crock pot curry this arvo 500gr chicken thigh chopped chunky 3 spring onions 1/2 a sweet potato 1/2 a brown onion 1/4 red capsicum 1/2 a head of brocolli 2 teaspoons crushed garlic 2 heaped teaspoons Keens curry powder 1 can of diced tomato 1 can coconut milk 450ml of Vegetta stock Got...

Well the bottles spent 10/12 Days in the fridge, with the heat pad setting the temp at a pretty constant 24/25deg, got a bottle out and threw it in the fridge for the day, PSSST, goes the cap :chug: Condensation in the neck and a good sound when it opened had me smiling, Poured nicely with...

Bottles have been inside the fridge @ 23-25deg for 6 days, hoping to crack one this weekend i think and hope to hell there is some fizzzz :)

I have moved the bottles into an old fridge with a heating pad inside, temp when I put them in was 17 deg, looking to get around 22-23? and wait another week or 2 :)

Will try a few of these tips guys! Cheers! , fingers crossed!

Thanks guys! Will check youtube out :) I've looked through that spreadsheet, bit hard to understand atm but learning as I go, I've considered kegging also, bit frustrating if the whole batch is flat :( good learning curves anyways :)

Well,,, we bottled up the brew 2 & 1/2 weeks ago, Kept them at fermenting temp for that time, Excited this weekend we took 3 long necks away with us!,, Open the first bottle, and a very minor hiss made its way out of the bottle, poured into glasses, it was pretty much dead flat! Thinking...

Ahhh yes makes sense :) Thanks!!!

As a newby brewer I'm up this alley i think also, The "freemantle pale ale" I just bottled had some extras as similar to above, and i bought it as a whole kit and jus followed the instructions as per package, With regards to "steeping" I took the appropriate amount of water needed to the boil...

I bottled my first brew yesterday, we had 12 coopers long necks and 18 misc 650ml longnecks, The Coopers bottles had been sitting stored for a few weeks after been rinsed once or twice after emptying, we half filled with hot tap water and shook them, then dunked in hot water that has the "low...

Thanks mate :) Sorry I actually did numbers wrong -_- ,, the reading initially was 1042 and reading 11 days on was 1014, I have just done another reading, been in the fermenter for 16 days, and the reading is still 1013/1014, been there since last Wednesday, It had been around the 18deg...

I took the initial reading with the hydrometer @104ish sugar per litre , 42 the upper meniscus reading, 11 days on, just took a reading and is - @39 sugar per litre , 14 the upper meniscus reading, Is this sounding ok ? Edit; sorry i copied and pasted re the band width :unsure:

Agree :D Her uncle is majorly into it, he is probably on here actually come to think of it :P Good times ahead!