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I pitched some wyeast 1762 that I cultured up as per this thread. I split the smacky into two x 1L batches.. It worked a treat, so I pitched a litre of the starter (100gms LDME, 1L water) into a Coopers Canadian Blonde kit, with some LME, Tettenanger and Hallertau. I've been feeding it 300gms...

I had a yeastcake pitching fail to take off which is a first for me. I've done it several times and normally they take off within a few hours. Some here have even suggested that using the whole yeastcake is over pitching but after chucking a coopers real ale kit onto a yeastcake of Safale...

I'm heading to the Earl of Leicester tonight and they seem to have a cracking range in bottles, just wondering if any local SA drinkers can tell me what they have on tap that they've tried lately? (I am not driving so keen to quaff a few)

On the weekend I smashed my favourite Leffe "chalice" glass. :angry: These were the ones that came in the promotional packs that were at Dan Murphy's in December last year. Came with 4 Leffe Blondes and a killer beer glass. I only ever break glasses when I am stone cold sober and washing...

Anyone else working in the city today? 45 degrees in Adelaide and man does it feel like it. It absolutely stings out in the sun. Not looking forward to my bus ride home. Lucky I put a heap of pilsners on ice before leaving for work this morning. Now I'm only wishing I put more in there, I will...

Good read, nice to see our fave drop getting such a good wrap. http://www.theage.com.au/news/executive-st...5561122452.html ........"triple-cream brie with quince jelly and lavash with hefeweizen" Damn I can't figure out if I'm hungry or thirsty? :icon_drool2:

I went to a bbq on Saturday arvo with people from my girlfriend's work. I had several longies of various homebrew under my arm and when I got there I found there were already quite a few "cleanskin" longies already in the esky...."Hello" I thought to myself "There's a homebrewer in the house"...

When the Leffe Blondes were on sale at Dan Murphy's with the glass included a couple o weeks ago I grabbed 2 of them and they are the flatest glasses I have ever drunk out of. :( I've tried everything, including soaking in the alkaline salts I use for washing scungey old bottles and then...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26860078/ I'm game....Gimmie a sip of that. EDIT: The distributors site

So I've just grabbed a tin of the Thomas Cooper Wheat beer and some Coopers wheat malt. Got some safale and some fuggles at home, any other additives/advice from peeps who have done this tin of goo before? I'm a bit worried about it getting too hot. LHBS guy said not above 18 and within a week...

Hi all, I love the Belgian beers so put together the following with awesome results: Coopers Canadian Blonde tin of goo 500gms LDME 300gms Dex 1kg Belgian Candy Sugar (home made, based on excellent advice from the AHB forum) Belgian Ale yeast 30gms tettnanger hops @ 10 mins in the boil It is...

Hi All, please enjoy my surreal bottling experience from last night: After reading a great K+K recipe on this fine site for a Raspberry Ale I had to try it. I brewed a can of coopers real ale, let it sit a week and then racked it onto 500gms of frozen raspberries and threw in a 440gm tin of...

I'm sure everyone knows that rotten egg sulphur smell of a fermenting lager but for the first time I have that smell in my bottled brew. I did a Thomas Cooper Pilsner with 1kg BE2 and 500gms LDME and the supplied kit yeast. Let it ferment for 17 days in primary and could really smell that...

I've got a can of Morgan's Ironbark Dark Ale Just wondering what opinion is like on the yeast that comes with Morgan's Dark Ale? Never done a Morgan's before so interested in opinions...

A friend has collected a heap of "Appletiser" carbonated apple juice bottles for me. They look like I could maybe cap them with PET bottles caps, but not a crown seal. They are pretty much like san peligrino/perier bottles. Anyone had any experience capping these with a standard bench capper...

So tonight is bottling night and I was pottering around the brew shed last night getting organised and I looked at one of the taps on an old fermenter that I was given recently (filled with a Coopers Pale Ale) and I thought: "hmmmm....that tap looks a little loose" so I gave it a tiny twist...

Just wondering what the experience of people bottling into Grolsch swing tops has been like? Yesterday I went with a mate who is setting up for his first home brewing session to the Magill Recycling Depot here in SA and he bought 120 long necks @ $3 a doz. As he was getting them I noticed they...

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Hi All, I had a few Coopers Vintage Ales on Saturday night as the Crows whipped North Melbourne. :D This reminded me a lot of some very good home brews I've had: Strong Alcohol content and very malty nose and palate. All in all a damn good commercial beer - but a bit expensive at $19 a six...

Hi All, I have a brew that will be ready to bottle in a week or so and I am wondering if I rack the brew off can I pitch onto the yeast cake? It was a good yeast (Nottingham) and I used 500g dextrose + 500g Coopers brew enhancer for sugars If I pitch onto this won't I just end up with a hell...