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I’m sure it’ll be good. Someone here posted an awesome spreadsheet for designing kit recipes, when I get a moment later I’ll find it again and link it. I put on a coopers dark ale last weekend. Chucked in a kilo of enhancer 3 and steeped/mashed half a kilo of chocolate malt, then gave some...

Thank you Steve!! They’re all Going straight to the fridge now. Beautifully carbonated. Another reason to keg then [emoji848]

Haven’t tried it - though curious myself. Personally, I’d probably give it a go with a tin of dark or amber malt, then throw in half a kilo of enhancer 1 (60/40 dex/maltodextrin). I’m finding that kit recommendations are fairly light handed, and I’m getting better beers from being bolder in the...

Hey all, I’ve got a hop heavy pale ale conditioning in bottles, today marks day 7 of being in the bottle. Yesterday I was too curious and needed to know how the beer was coming along. Out of the fermenter the beer had a strong bitterness that, despite my love for hops, was bordering...

I had a brew that got contaminated that tasted like this. Got worse with time. I poured the majority down the drain and introduced a toxic level of bleach to my household. Then I tried a mate’s brew who made a similar kit, and it also had a slight mushroom kind of flavour, but it was subtle...

Interesting. I thought that once too.

This sounds good. I’m just starting out. Trying a pale ale with a can of APA and a can of wheat LME. Noticed you’ve used a shit load of malt - what’s the idea there? What was %alcohol? How much and when do you dry hop? Just curious to know what everyone is doing. Cheers!

Nice work, that beer looks lovely.

Hey all, Was meaning to ask for a while now what everyone's thoughts are on Black Rocks kits having only a 5g pouch of yeast with them. Surely that's setting us up for an underpitch, or am I missing something? I'm fairly new to brewing, so still trying to make sense of the basics. The kit I...

Thank you for the tips. Sounds like I need to pay more attention to secondary fermentation in general. Side note - about half the bottles appear appropriately carbonated now. Seems the process is a bit longer with this one. Now I’m beginning to grasp exactly the plethora of variables at play...

Hi, yes and yes. Both times. I’ve used a different yeast for my third kit which is still primary fermenting.

Wicked. Will check that book out. Looks like they do a book on each main beer ingredient. Cheers!

Brew 3 sounds like it'll be a killer. Keen to hear some updates down the line. Just gave all my second brew pet bottles a squeeze and noticed about half a dozen of them were about as firm as my first brew. Put one on the fridge - will try it in a couple of days (if I can keep my hands off of it...

Thank you so much. Sounds like you've put me onto a winner

Hey mate, cheers for replying. I don’t know 100%. Im gonna say 20 degrees give or take a couple. I might keep a trusty thermometer in the cupboard to find out though. It’s in the shed, so I think there’s a bit of fluctuation.

Hi vines, I’m pretty much where you are in brewing infancy. I have a magnicantly carbonated first batch, but a pretty much flat second batch. I used coopers drops for both. Temperatures have been similar for both, so I’m stumped. I varied off the recipe for my second and used brew enhancer 3...

Hi all, So I’ve just started out, real green beginner here. Bought myself a coopers brew kit, brewed the lager it comes with, and have since enjoyed a well carbonated, head-retaining beer. I used brew enhancer 1, that’s it, no extras. Followed the coopers DYI oversimplistic instructions, except...