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Acquired a grarage fridge over the holidays and would like to get an ac controller with temperature probe. Seems simple enough: like a timer you plug your fridge into but with a temperature probe instead of a clock. Seems you can spend from $20 to $100 on these things. Then there's something...

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I love the flavours in this beer. Searched it on the forums and can see it's one of those love it or hate it things. Anyway, what I wanna know is: Why can I drink a 6 pack of Coopers Sparkling 5.8% abv and still be sober as a judge, then, another day though not necessarily the next day (and I...

Tonight I'm setting down my 1st all-non-hopped-extract brew. I've looked at a few recipes, played with the hop weights and boil times on the spreadsheet but just want some general advice on hop additions. It's probably a matter of preference/style, but is there a rule of thumb for what...

Last night I dropped my 20yo glass hydrometer :( Pretty peeved with meself too, particularly after digging out the plastic Coopers one ... with plain 20C tap water in it it reads 0.986, way away from 1.000. So, is this thing even worth using? Can I just add 0.014 to each reading or is it just...

While I'm yet to get into the liquid yeasts, have done some great brews with us-05 recently. But what to do with all those left over kit yeasts from the Colesworse "on special" tooheys and coopers kits? I was chucking the Tooheys yeast in the bin and using 2 Coopers packs for some heavier ales...

Evening brewers -- What I would like to know is -- other than clarity or harvesting yeast from the FV/bottles, is there any reason to boil or dry-hop using a bag and removing the hops after the boil? Also, do you get substantially more (or wrong) bitterness/flavour/aroma from chuckin em right in...

Brewed a Coopers Mex Cerveza with Saflager S-23. It spent 21 days in the FV and has spent 30 days in the bottles. It's really really clear, hardly any sediment. Does s23 need longer bottle conditioning like other lager yeasts? The weather is warm and it's Saturday and I'm about to drag out the...

Hi all -- while still on the early to mid parts of the procession-to-all-grain continuum is it worth considering what's in the water and if it's worth modifying? Do you add stuff (other than malt) to lower the pH of your hops boil? Do you check the pH of the boil? The town water? I did a...

Hi there, haven't posted for a while. You folks (and the HTB book) helped me knock out a few marvellous brews a few weeks and months back. Hoping youse can help out again! I had a go at a kit/spec-malt strong ale and it's stalled at 1.015 after an OG of 1.050 (70%) and 9 days in the FV at 20C...

Hi all - am interested to hear what any of you kit and extract brewers do for the darker lagers. Got inspired by the Schwarzbier aka Black Pils recipe on the Coopers site. yeah i get inspired easily ok :) But also wanted to polish off the last 200g of a bag of chocolate malt ... then on brew...

I've seen the thread here and tried a variation of the one on the Coopers site ... has anyone got a recipe they use that's better? Used Briess Sparkling Amber (1kg dry) instead of the type in the recipe. Used 2 x coopers kit yeast and final volume of 26L so as to get 20 x 1.25L bottles (yeah...

I've tried k&k brewing for several months using non-kit yeast (fermentis). most batches have gone well, but i've noticed a bit of a skin developing on the fermenting wort around day 5-8 with some safale/saflager/safbrew yeasts... is this ok? 1st batch was with a us-05 which i almost tipped out...

Hi - this is my 1st brew using steeped grains without a recipe sourced online. Will this get me anything a) drinkable and hopefully b) like BJCP 11a/b/c English Brown Ale? Coopers Real Ale 2x kit yeast 200g chocolate malt 1kg light LME 500g dark DME 100g dark brown sugar 100g golden syrup...

Hi all, after making use of these forums for a few months, this is my first new topic. So gudday! I first brewed using coopers kits + dextrose about 20 years ago. Had a break of a good many years and got back into it about 18 months ago - my first comment there would be regarding how the...