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Yeah I had thought of these, but the beer is sooo sweet I got a bit worried. I thought maybe I stuffed up my first ag!! I guess time will tell for this one. Thanks for the help. Cheers, :beer: Phil.

Hadn't thought of that one. Thanks mate. Will it change over time and if the beer is chilled?

Hi all, I've just tasted my first AG batch (an apa) out of secondary and noticed that it is way to sweet (as in almost undrinkable). This is very strange cos the FG was about 1007 and I was expecting it to be quite a dry beer. The recipe was as follows: 4.5 kg Pale Malt 0.3 kg Crystal Mashed...

I recently purchased a fish-aquarium heater for less than $20 which has a thermostat. I just put the heater in some water in a barrel and put the whole fermenter in. The lowest setting is like 20-22 C so you get ok temperatures for ales, and you don't need to check the temp all the time...

OK gotya, That's another option I might need to explore. Have to go find a soda stream from somewhere ... Phil.

Hi Geoff, I've looked into this one as well (5 or 8L is a pretty good size to fit in my fringe). Do you use the bicycle pump CO2 thing for this, or have you rigged up the soda stream system? I had considered the soda stream but then chickened out because a lot of people use regulators etc...

Hi Guys, I'm really interested in trying this deal out. As it's been a month now, have there been anymore overall good/bad impressions of the system? Cheers, Phil.

Cheers Robbo, I did a sparkling ale version on the weekend using the pale ale kit, 1.5 kg of dry malt and 500g of dex (similar to the sparkling recipe). Used recultured pale ale yeast from 2 stubbies. Hopefully will work well. I agree though, I've started heavily editing their recipes, but...

Sweet, except I'mm pretty sure a mini-mash is out of my league at the moment. The last brew I made I used a danstar windsor ale yeast and it seemed to work well, so I've moved on from kit yeasts. Anyone make a nice guiness clone without a mash? (Steeping grain and adding hops are ok cos I've...

Fare enough. I thought about editing the stouter stout recipe by adding 1.5 kg dme to the kit, but don't really know how it'll turn out. Might need some extra hops or something.

Cheers mate, I'll try to find the recipe. I was thinking of doing the stouter stout one but might just add 1.5 kg of dme to the stout kit and see how it goes. Keep brewing, Phil.

Hi Guys. Newbie here! Just thought I'd add to this post because nobody answered my other post. Has anyone made the recipes off the cooper's website? Are any of them any good? Cheers, Phil_the_ale_man :party:

G'day all. Was looking at the Cooper's website recently and noticed a whole bunch of recipes that look quite simple for a beginner such as myself. Just wodering if anyone has tried some and if they are any good? Cheers, Phil_the_ale_man :beerbang:

Good tip! My first brew was a bit warm (26 deg) so I had some mess then. I've got a blow-off tube on stand-by now, as well as a 100-can cooler to keep the temp in the 18-22 range. With the 18 L that you mentioned, what did you add - all DME, or some dextrose, or even a syrup?

Cheers guys. I did a search earlier but couldn't find much stuff on golden syrup (how much to add etc). I may have to find my way to Grumpy's then!