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i made my last beer (Coopers Zephyr) at 18 - 23 degrees with wet terry towelling nappies & salted ice blocks & using a digital probe inserted inside the fermenter (1st time). my other 3 were around 25 degrees & they were green at 2 weeks but definitely improved at 4 weeks & then they were gone...

funny thing is i didn't smell anything different & when i took a reading it was gassy & i did take a sip of it & it only tasted like warm beer to me (yuk). the only smell i could detect was yeast, but that could because i'm a noob. mind you when i took a sip of it, i didn't know what was waiting...

i didn't take a pic of it but it does look something like a pic i found, but mine was not broken up like that. it is in the k & k (vinegar smell - post 9). i couldn't work out how to add this to the link (noobie).

i went & made a coopers zephyr to make a westend gold recipe. it was a coopers draught & 100g dextrose. i've never made a beer with dextrose, but you make it with 23 litres of total volume. the og was 1027 & sg was 1008 at 18 - 21oC for brewing temp. It was made on 1/3/07 & i was gonna rack it...

Hi there, Beer brewed at 26C-28C would taste terrible, not to mention the fusel alcohols that would be produced which will give you a nasty headache and a hangover to all hell. When I read that, I had to laugh, as that's exactly what happened to a friend & myself when he tried my 1st batch. I...

Hi there, I've only started to make my beer (pretty slack as I only just realised how long my 1st post was). I've made 4 lots all with 1/2kg of be2. I also realised that I had not enough sugar in the scoop until I went into Big W yesterday. I was only filling it up to the line, not the lip. Oh...

i'm from stirling north, just out of port augusta.

will check out that site as i was checking out the 1st site with all the forums on coopers & it was a lot of input. 12 -13 years ago a mate bottled for me with the coopers draught,1kg of sugar, waited a week & put 1 baby scoop to each longneck & drank it 2 weeks later. stopped drinking years ago...

have put a bid on a kit on ebay as it has 2 fermenters, bottle capper & 15 cartons of coopers bottles. just hope i win it as he is willing to bring it to me

no problems will get the dextrose next time i'm in town. as you can see i'm new to this

hi there, i would like to start making some beer. i'm sill deciding to get a tooheys kit (has bottle capper with no bottles) or to get the coopers kit (30 plastic bottles). i like west end gold as it isn't yeasty like midstrength carlton (headache material). i'm new to this, so can anybody help...