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@Vic Much thanks - was keen to get underway today so appreciate passing on your real life experiences with what seems like a curious and little used yeast. :-)

Here's a decent thread I found on it - which is actually the one that made me think it'd be suitable for my quaffer: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/be-256-dry-fermetis-abbey-has-anyone-used-it-results.670423/ In it they talk about it being possibly suitable for a Pale Ale - and not really...

Hi All, Snagged a few sachets of this at a cheap price - it's stated that it's a Belgian Abbaye style beers - but I'd read it's actually not like this much at all - and folks had used it for other more mainstream styles wih success. I'm not planning anything special - just a general...

Ok after being royally dicked around by Coopers on their bottles ability to handle 3.x vol pressure - they all held up ok - nearly a month after bottling now - so even in winter as are stored inside I tried. Chilled for 2 days. Priming was about at the correct level - so that was fine. But the...

Just as a post-script - rather than rebottling I've moved all the bottles to plastic storage containers - with padding etc in between each of the bottles to a level to hopefully avert multi-bottle losses if one happens to go. I corresponded with Coopers quite a bit and I asked them very...

Morning @Feldon , Thank you for your reply. Yes, I believe that would have been the period that @clarkejw referred to earlier when Coopers seemed to also change the thickness of their bottles. Is interesting though. INterestingly - when I asked Coopers WHY they didn't provide any...

1) info on boxes - I've no idea feel free to DYOR - I've not bought others so I'm not that worried about them - as stated very common with most products designed to withstand certain forces e.g temps, weights etc. 2) WIth all due respect, thats not how it works in a court of law - in fact have...

@terminal2k I understand what you're saying but I thin either you've misunderstood me or I've miscommunicated. My concern with Cooper is this and for the purposes of simplicity lets assume we're speaking about the brand new glass bottles they are selling through LHB stores, which although...

Ok got to be honest I'm completely ****** off with Coopers. I've supported this mob ever since I got into home brewing - and they champion themselves as the darlings of home brewers in Oz and overseas - but they've been as useful as tits on a bull in getting to the bottom of what SHOULD be...

Ok this just gets muddier and muddier. Coopers replied back to me today and stated: Soooooooooo being that I'm estimating there's up to 3.3vol in them - I'm now thinking about something I assumed was fine. I can read between the lines on his response and am sure he's not wanting to say they're...

You're right to hate bottling. As mentioned no issue kegging it - in fact this allows you greater freedom as where I wanted a sweetish GB but as bottling had to back sweeten it with a non-fermentable so no over carbonation (using sweetener tabs in end) - you could if you wanted sweet do what I...

I'm not sure as I buy commercial beer so rarely. I got all my longnecks when as is so often the way a local old fella was selling off all his HB gear. I had no interest in his ghastly looking fermenters, which i think he may have picked up from a yard sale Iraq's Bio Weapons program was having...

Ah - hmmm thats well below what I'd have expected - haha I was feeling all fine after @MHB 's post - not much I can do now but I am truly shocked they say that low. Appreciate the info.

Hi @Grmblz sorry but 3.2 vols is what? What you'd recommend for carb level for ginger beer? Or the pressure limit of Coopers 750ml glass bottles? For the former, ok thats about what I went with - if you mean for the latter - an you provide some basis or reference for this?

I couldn't find anything (yes, I've that much stuff to do searching for such things seems like a 'good' use of my time).....but seeing as a how water heater is a largescale immersion heater - I think this answers it pretty well - seems well credentialled respondents so should be on the money.

Induction is terrific - we have limited benchtop space (surprisingly shallow counters depth wise) so in replacing the old 900mm solid state one I went with this very compact 2 hob Swiss made unit. As very few induction units fitted and I actually had to put thisone in sideways for even it to...

Ok due to car issues (warranty matter with Hyundai - PITA!) I couldn;t make it into town to get the artifical sweetner. Woolies was out so grabbed 2 packets of the Coles brand ones. Racked to secondary today (just a day short of 3 weeks) no signs of any issues. As I wasn't worried about...

Thanks everyone - as alluded to I dropped it back to what I'd guess was low end 3.x vols - I already had the sugar syrup made for BPing and just left a portion of it out. I'd be absolutely shocked if any of the Coopers bottles had an issue with it - all in very good nick. Stirred the BP syrup...

Appreciate the reply but as I said given the info I can find - that is normal/CUB thin walled glass are rated for 4vol - the much heavier Coopers should be 4+ - as any feedback I can find on their respective rating vs normal is essentially VASTLY superior, just can't quantify what this is. I'm...

Morning all, I've googled the heck out of this but just wanted to check here as well; 1. Need to bottle prime a batch of hard ginger beer ASAP - it's been in fermenter nearly 3 weeks now (alas couldnt do at 2 weeks due to car issues and needed artifical sweeter to backsweeten from town - long...