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Update: Took another hydrometer reading today and the cider smell was totally gone, gravity was the same as last week so that's good. Bottled it (which makes it 3 weeks in fermenter before bottling) and got 42 500ml bottles, leaving everything below the spigot to get chucked with the trub. Does...

I used the packet of yeast that it came with and (I think?) the same proportion of fermentables that Coopers gives in the instructions. I couldn't say if that is enough I guess.

I'd be a bit surprised if fermentation hadn't completed, because the gravity reading was bang on what the calculator predicted and it tasted totally dry. I don't know if the temperature was optimal for the Cooper's Gold Packet yeast, it would have varied between 64F and 68F with it being 65-66F...

I recently made my first attempt at brewing an ale, using a Coopers pre-hopped extract kit (the Real Ale one), and today was the two week point so I took a gravity reading and it appears to be spot on the expected final gravity I calculated. However, I'm hesitant to bottle it just yet because my...

Thanks everyone for all the advice and for the How to Brew Beer recommendation. I'll update the thread when I have some feedback on the Stout, which I guess will be quite a while. My plan is to bottle it fairly soon after it's fermented but then age in the bottles for some time before I start...

Yeah sorry all my posts have to be approved by an admin because I just joined (presumably), but once approved they appear with the original timestamp from when i posted them.

Correct I'm living in the USA. I did ask the Coopers US store people about the Coopers Club discount and they told me it doesn't apply to the US store and you cannot sign into your forums account on the US store, etc.. It seems a bit like the people who run the US store are more focused on the...

Thanks! Yeast variety should be fine, there are several good homebrew stores nearby I'm told, they just don't carry Coopers stuff. So I have to order from the local (USA) version of the Coopers website, and that has very low stock right now. I called them and they reckon there's unprecedented...

I was just going to use the one that comes with the can, but if you have a better suggestion I'd love to know. I don't know yeasts, but I figure as long as it doesn't require a special technique to use then I'm happy to try a different yeast.

I'm just starting out in extract brewing and I wanted to try making a simple stout recipe (O'Leary Stout, from Customize Your Coopers) for my first brewing attempt. However stock of Coopers is not good where I am, right now, so the closest to the Coopers stout I could find is Coopers Devil's...