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it must be the season - i've got one down too.
1 can of coopers pale ale, 1.5kg morgan's extra pale malt, 15g pride of ringwood fresh(?) flowers (10min boil) and 15g pride of ringhole flowers added when heat shut off the boil. also, pitched a cultured pale ale yeast in addition to the packet yeast ...

don't add it to your primary and stir it up cause you'll mix up all your sediment.

bulk priming:
dissolve 180g dextrose into 500ml of boiling water and pour it into a second sterilized fermenter. then add your fermenter beer from your primary fermenter into your secondary and mix with your ...

beer krout,
i'm assuming you're talking about using 100g of chocolate malt grain right? or are you intending to use one of the 1kg morgan's chocolate malt cans? if you've just started brewing then steeping grains is probably a little ahead of where you should be. how about getting a good 1.7kg ...

...just use a bit of commonsense when you do it. i don't want to see anyone blaming me for telling them to brew generic kits when all they've done is add a kilo of white sugar to it and used the kit yeast.

hamburger.

-wombat

damo,
possibly some of the generic brands are just coopers kits repackaged, but probably not because coopers want too much for them in bulk - yes, you can buy massive buckets of coopers draught pre-hopped home brew kit mix. the most likely option is that it's simply cheap bulk generic confectionary ...

go here:
http://www.esbeer.com.au/category8_1.htm
-wombat

i hear you about needing to mix it - especially when you get to the bottom of your unmixed bottle of coopers and you realise you're gonna have to take a massive wad of sediment for the team - cause you know you just can't waste it
-wombat

yes, you've proved us wrong.
try pride of ringwood pellets - about 10g.
-wombat

i made a sparkling ale can and added 1.5kg light malt extract liquid, 500g dried light malt extract and 300g of dextrose (as per cooper's instructions) and used a starter from a sparkling ale longneck in addition to the packet yeast and dry hopped with 10g pride of ringwood pellets (just brought ...

i read that gelatin finings can take some tannins from beer. personally, i don't find that a terrible thing.
-wombat

i did a comparison between white sugar and dextrose on the same batch only once, but i used a carefully measured solution of dextrose and just used the scoop for the white sugar. the dextrose beat the hell out of it ;)
though, i must admit that after about three months in the bottle, the difference ...

it surely is, it just makes me feel clever to say it's whole name
-wombat

i read a recipe for corona on grumpys a little while back. i don't know how close it is to actual corona but it was a nice laugh:

"pee into your fermenter, use gum leaves instead of hops and hope for the best"

seriously though, i think i saw a serious recipe once before which included the use of a ...

ok, i've just tasted my sparkling ale and it is bloody awesome.
it isn't exactly the same as cooper's sparkling ale, but it's similar - it's just stronger in every regard. the malt flavour is stronger, the head retains better, the alcohol is higher (6.9%) and i've got 23L of it :)
the only thing ...

cool, i'd refund the drum except they make too good a fermenter ;)
i was really hesitant to put this one down except that every brew store i ran into just kept raving about them to the point where i just figured - gee that container looks useful and it has a tap fitting in the bottom... maybe i ...

corn sugar is dextrose monohydrate, unlike corn syrup which is maltodextrin. invert sugar is cool.
-wombat

http://www.esbeer.com.au/category24_1.htm
any good home brew store should stock them.
-wombat

i hear you - me too. they work fine don't they
-wombat

i mentioned before a couple of posts back that one can of bilo lager with nothing added may very well produce a beer worthy drinking...

well, today i grabbed my new 15L fermenter with the intention of producing my first ever 11.5L brew. i originally made this fermenter up out of the fresh wort just ...

i have an american pale ale fresh wort fermenting with a white labs wlp001 californian ale yeast right now in the big fermenter. i'll let you know what i think in a month or two ok
-wombat