For your Best Extra clone, do you use a Coopers stout kit with the 2kg minimash?
What split of grains? 1kg pale, 500g Crystal, 400g Choc, 100g Roast???
I've just done a Stout based on this recipe.
I used,
1 Coopers Stout kit
1 Tooheys Lager kit (got a few of these real cheap)
~500g JW dark...