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Hi all, Not sure whether this should be posted here or in the kits/extracts forum. It has been a long time between brews and I'm interested in fellow brewers thoughts on the following dark/brown ale. Something not too bitter but full of flavour for the cold nights ahead. Recipe: 1 Coopers...

Hey All, Im after a decent recipe, k&k or extract, for a light lager... any style is fine. Cheers!

Hi All, Im looking for a boags draught style recipe to fill a keg for xmas. Wondering if anyone has a recipe (kit, extract or partial) because i can't find one anywhere. Cheers!

Hi All, I am very soon to acquire a brewing fridge and consequently a fridgemate, so am keen to get involved in lagers. Would love some advice on this extract recipe: 1.5kg LLME (Coopers) 500g LDME 100g DWheatME 250g Carapils PoR bittered to 24 Ibus at 60 mins 10g Hallertau MF at 20 mins s-23...

Hi All, After buying a kegging set up on monday i finally kegged my first batch! However after putting it in the fridge overnight, i checked it this morning and the beer is well and truly frozen! So after an inspection i purged with co2, released any residual pressure, and left the keg a warm...

G'day I've just purchased a basic keg system - including a 19L 2nd hand postmix keg, and this is probably a fairly silly question but basically i have no idea how to open the lid of the damn thing! The instructions i got with the keg dont go into this. I've released the pressure from the keg...

Hi All, Just about to make an order of grain to craftbrewer and am unsure about whether to get mixed or unmixed grains? What does this mean? Milled grain is cracked grain? (which i want) My recipe is an extract LC bright ale based on Tony's recipe (cheers!), any advice on it would be great...

Hi All. I have been brewing very basic extracts for a while, generally with malt extracts rather than adding grains, which i now plan to do. My housemates and i are grabbing a keg setup very soon, so i'm going to put down a basic 'australian' ale, modelled on a coopers pale style recipe, and...

Hi all Im looking to do a 12L extract japanese lager and need a bit of advice. The current recipe is: 500g LDME 300g Rice Malt 300g Dexrose 100g Maltodextrin Bittered with Galena to about 20-23 IBUs Saaz and Hersbrucker for flavour and aroma w34/70 How does this reciepe look? Also im unsure...

Hey all Im putting down a coopers pilsner today (kit, 500g ldme, 350dex, 150wheatmalt, s-189), and really want it to have that spicy and floral saaz flavour and aroma. Any suggestions on how much saaz to add, how long to boil for? Im not a true hophead, so i dont want it crazily hoppy... but i...

I've got a can of coopers pilsner and am wondering what to do with it. I'm wanting a lightish sessionable lager. Current recipe is: Coopers Pilsner kit 500g LDME 500g brew enhancer 1 12g Hersbrucker (20 mins) 5g steeped for 20 mins OR 12g Saaz (20 mins) 5g steeped for 20 mins I also have s-189...

Hi all Just wondering if anyone knows if the yeast supplied with the black rock mexican lager is a true lager yeast? It claims in the kit/guide that it is but makes no real mention of specific fermentation temps. Cheers

Im going to put down my first extract brew, an all nelson sauvin ale, and am unsure on the hopping schedule as its only going to be an 11L brew Im looking for an easy drinking tasty ale, the recipe so far is: 1.5 kg Coopers LLME 15g Nelson sauvin at 60 min 10g NS at 20 10g NS at 0 US-05...

Yesterday afternoon i put down a coopers heritage lager using the 'lager' yeast from a coopers pilsner kit (purchased both kits at the same time and decided to use 34/70 for the pilsner kit). Pitched the yeast at about 18* Last night i left the fermenter outside, the wort had cooled to about...

Im fairly keen to get a standard house ale brew going. Im after an un-offensive ale that can be brewed for most to enjoy - a good sessionable beer. I want to be able to make it without a great deal of maintenance in terms of retrieving ingredients. So my plan is bulk order hops/yeast, so i can...

Hey All, Have a can of heritage lager hanging around and am going to put it down in the next week or so. Just wondering on hopping advice? The recipe so far is: Heritage Lager can 500g LDME 500g BE2 12g Tettnang 12g Hersbrucker Coopers Lager Yeast (from a used Coopers pilsner can) Was...

I'm going to put down a japanese style light bodied lager and any advice on the recipe would be great. I've got two versions Coopers Cerveza BE1 500g Rice Malt/Syrup 15g Saaz @15 min 10g Saaz @ 1 10g Hersbrucker @ 1 Saflager 34/70 OR 1.5kg LLME 500g LDME 500g Dextrose 500g Rice malt 15g...

Im thinking of putting down a relatively easy to knock back k&K in the cerveza style. Ive done the coopers mexican before with average results in terms of aroma. The current recipe is Coopers Mexican Cerveza BE1 (or 2 maybe) 15g Galena S-05 Am wondering if anyone has advice on which aroma...

Im putting down a coopers european lager in the next few days and was wondering if anyone had any hop suggestions Putting it down with a kilo of LDME and maybe 25g saaz (AA 3.5-4%) (boiled 2 mins then steeped 20)? Any suggestions would be great!