Coopers Microkit

[Trough Lolly]

One more thing...

If you're thinking about sprucing up your kits, and trust me, they could do with a $hitload of sprucing then have a read of John Palmer's free online brewing book - it's a great intro to a hobby that you'll soon become obsessed with and drive the missus crazy over, all at the same time! h34r:

To read the book: Click here...

Cheers,
TL

 

[atariman2002]

many thanks for the replies.................i will read and learn



its reassuring to know there are people out there who are willing to help.



By trade i am a computer engineer...specialising in networking and hardware/software.


so if anyone on the forum needs advice or tech help please ask or pm me if you can



cheers beers

 

[rodderz]

Welcome to the site mate :beer:

The level of helpfulness on this forum is excellent, helped me out a great deal too, i was in the same position as you a year ago, now doing partials which is even better.

From my experience with the Coopers Kits is that while their supplied yeasts are of the hardy variety (as they are exported and used in types of weather conditions) they will do best at the lowest temp possible without going into dormancy. For your ales for example 18-20C should be ideal. Think of your fermenting brew like a roast- the slower cooking roast will always taste better than a really hot oven that cooks it more so on the outside quicker. Lagers can go lower.

Just make sure that your final gravity hydrometer readings are of the same result over 2-3 days, then you're sure that fermentation is complete