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"Oh bugger it! I was hoping for a better result than that" (smiling) "There isn't one Brett." Sums it up!

Well I am drinking my first kegged beer .... so I'll call it a ... ummm.. Draught! Just finished mowing the lawn, and at 3.3% this is an appropriate "lawnmower" strength beer to be drinking :) It's a Coopers Mex Cervezea with 600gms of LDME & 15 gram additions of czech saaz hops at 30, 20, &...

Yeah me too... but nowhere near as coherent :icon_drunk: -edit- e.g.: I once posted that I thought I could easily make a brew that tasted better than a Coopers Sparkling..... (but then again I was drinking it "warm" because the fridge was full)

I have alwaysed used dextrose - good results & no effect on flavour. A few links I found for calculating: http://www.aussiehomebrewing.com/AlcoholCh...Calculator.html but I always used Ianh's spreadsheet to work out my bulk priming .... http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...anh+spreadsheet

FWIW - I made a starter out of Coopers yeast from a couple of Coopers Sparkling bottles. 600ml water, 60gm LDM, and it sat in a sealed (clip down lid - like Grolsch) bottle for about 4 weeks (brewday didnt' happen when it was supposed to) ... it fermented out & settled, leaving an amber liqour -...

Yeah... oops, been working stupid hours the last couple of days ... looked for the topic in this (Kits & Extracts) section of the forum, but not the rest of the forum. Only recently I dropped in to Penrith K-Mart for some Coopers kits & found a fairly limited choice - on the other hand, the...

According to Coopers, Coles have decided to stop stocking home brew products. Here is the emai I just recieved:

From John Still, sixteenth-century Bishop of Bath and Wells, comes the finest hymn to beer in all lliterature. From the comedy play "Gammer Curton's Needle" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammer_Gurton's_Needle): Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand grow cold; But belly, God...

Quote from the book: The gallery of the church of Sygatem, Norfolk, has this inscription: God speed the plough, And give us good ale now... Be merry and glade, With good ales was this church made.

"Malt does more than Milton can, To justify God's way to man." A. E. HOUSMAN: The New Mistress

At around the time of writing this book, here are the national figures for "Pints Per Head Per Year" Czechoslovakia: 227 West Germany: 224 Belgium: 216 Australia: 201 New Zealand: 194 Austria: 182 Britain: 164 Denmark: 160 Switzerland: 134 Canada: 119 USA: 111 Methinks this has probably dropped...

"Find me a bench, and let me snore, Till, charged with ale and unconcern, I'll think it's noon at half-past four!" KENNETH SLESSOR

I am a slow reader, and tend to pick up a book for less than an hour, and then not pick it up again for days, sometimes weeks. That's why the books I am currently reading suit me as they do not tend to be "gripping" tales with alot of back-storey. Back in the April school holidays we went...

A friend of mine (a fellow home brewer) went to the "Beer Factory" in Seven Hills, Syd a couple of years ago and made up some nice brews there. According to him, they are happy to help you all the way or provide prepared ingredients until it comes to pitching the yeast ... that's where you have...

Had a pint of Guiness at lunchtime at one of my locals ... I chose the pub over the club as the pub has a better variety of beers... worst Guiness I have ever tasted ... sure it had the creamy head, but it was watery & had a hideous sweetness to it that I can only liken to a Tooheys Dark kit I...

Well it's only been bottled for two weeks and I had to crack one to see what it is like .... One word: YUM! Nice frothy and firm head (as some of you said would be a feature of the wheat malt). Initial aroma has that typical wheat beer spicyness intermingled with what I would describe as...

She dosen't mind the smell actually ... it's just in the past I have made a sticky mess of the kitchen & she remembers that ... so it's less grief to get it done, finished and cleaned up before she gets back home. Oh the games we play...

You say you have K-Mart ... what about Coles then? In Penrith recently Iwent to K-Mart for Coopers tins & they had no English Bitter ... so I went next door to Coles & they had a larger range on the shelves of Coopers tins than K-Mart did (and i got my English Bitter from Coles!).

Quick update, I went with US05, Amarillo hops, and steeped some Crystal (waited for a day when my wife was out for half the day ;) ) ... bottled it two weeks ago, so will need to wait a while to taste the results :)

This kit has become my favourite, for sheer simplicity and the type of flavour & results already discussed in this thread. I am brewing in the house presently as the garage gets too cold for ales now & the yeast goes to sleep (had an ale drop to 12 deg with the Coopers yeast & had to bring it...