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Thanks for your input DJ. Without revealing too much, I've probably made somewhere between 30 and 40 can kit brews this year alone, and easily 80 in the last 18 months I usually do 2 at a time but recently I've been doing 3. I have beer in FVs every day and the usual ferment is 7 - 10 days. I...

About 3 or 4 months back I visited a store and bought 6 Cooper's can kits. 1 Real Ale, 1 Old, 2 Mexican Cerveza and 2 Canadian Blonde. I use 2 of the newer style Cooper's fermenters at a time (the ones with the krausen collar and no air lock) and use the same sterilisation process all the...

Covering with foil is a good idea as it won't leave tape sticky residue. You just need a vertical support at each end of the stack and lay your bottles down horizontally in between. It doesn't need to be a construction as long as there is something at each end to stop the bottles rolling...

If you're talking about empties, the best way is to store them the way the old bottle recyclers used to. Make a horizontal frame with vertical supports at the ends and store your bottles horizontally, stacking them in alternating pattern. Dust washes off and if you're worried about bugs or...

I now have 3 Cooper's plastic hydrometers that I keep in the drawer for emergencies only. The thing to look for is when the gravity stops dropping. If you get the same reading for 24 hours, or even wait 48 hours, it is done. I recently made the Beermakers Old that was meant to get down to...

Great. I'll look into it.

I recently used 1 full container (275 g) and 1/2 a container of Brigalow bottle washing powder to clean 300 or so glass bottles. It took 2 batches as it was getting pretty dirty halfway through. While the bottles weren't filthy, I was impressed with how well the product worked, and it even...

I'm in.

I only did it once and, as I said, it took the fermenter fridge for way too long. Nice beer but way too much work.

I bought a can yesterday just to check and there is no instruction to use low temperature. Other than the written instruction inside the label there is a direction to go to diybeer.com/101. When you select Original series Lager you see the same instructions I posted above. The International...

I've been bulk priming in a secondary fv for a long time. I'll know in a few days if adding a carb drop sugar lolly to the PETs has helped.

The brew I made with lager yeast ended up being nearly 3 months from start to finish and was a long time in the fermentation fridge. I only did it once and then waited till winter to try again. I still have lager yeast packs left over from last year that didn't get used. With the weather...

I've made heaps of Coopers Lager and I can't ever recall anything about dropping temperature to 13'C. The yeast supplied with the kit from memory, is actually an ale yeast. For 13'C you would need to use a Lager Yeast. Instructions: MIX 1. Mix can contents with 2 litres of water. Add...

I have just recently used one of the "only used once or twice" batches of Coopers PET bottles I purchased a few months back for the first time. I made a double batch of Brown Ale, which is yummy, but the point is that I bottled half in the fairly new PETs and half in Grolsch glass swing tops...

What yeast did you use? If you used the kit supplied yeast it isn't going to do much at 13'C.

Good. I think it is an improvement on the kit only batch. Still has good sweetness, I can't detect artificial taste and the added ginger flavour is better than the previous. I picked up another can on "Clearance" in WW the other day for only $6.95 so I'm about to do another. Shame it was the...

Great. They are a globally recognised and trusted company. I'm not at all surprised with this outcome. Well done for making the effort.

After the first few times I used PET bottle lids with the tamper ring, I started removing them before first use. I have a new bag of black lids I obtained with a batch of gear that I need to do so I can use them. One thing about home brewing is that a lot of people give up and there is plenty...

I felt this would be relevent here. The last 2 weeks has been a very busy bottle wash session in my shed. It will become evident as being sort of on topic in the second half of my post. First up (off topic a bit) I picked up 67 free 450 ml Grolsch swingtops. These were a bit dusty outside...