Coopers White board

Suggest or request any recipes for a particular beer or style of beer. Post all recipes here, including kit, partial mash and all-grain.

Coopers White board

Postby rwh » Friday Nov 10, 2006 12:28 pm

I based it on the info here:

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/i ... 20Ale&st=0
Some more 'reverse-engineering' research:

That whiteboard picture Sean referred to a while back is very interesting indeed. Not only does it give grain quantities for a lot of the Coopers beers, it also gives the ingredients for their extracts and kits. Here's the chart (dated 20.11.2000) (apologies for the dodgy formatting - figures are for pale, crystal, wheat and black malt, eg 4000.500.400.0 means 4000 of pale, 500 of crystal, 400 of wheat and no black):

EXTRACT BREWS

Pale Crystal Wheat Black
Malt N/O 6400.0.0.0
Lager 6400.0.0.0
Pilsener 5400.0.0.0
Draught 6400.100.0.0
Stout 5200.0.440*.880
Dark malt 5600.0.0.800
Ale 6000.240.160.40
Bitter 5000.400.320.120
Classic 5000.260.320.240
IPA 5700.280.320.40
Nut Brown 5000.280.320.240
Crystal 3200.3200.0.0
Amber 6300.240.0.60
Extra light 2900 BARLEY 4000
Light amber 6100.260.0.0

* This figure appears to have been erased, but is still faintly visible.

"LAGER CELLAR BREWS"

Pale Crystal Wheat Black
Birell 5500.160.0.0
DB 5100.80.0.0
Export 6200.240.0.0
Pale Ale 4600.40.200
Premium 5500.Medium 60.280.0
Dark Ale 4650.0.200.200
Ale 5900.40.240.0
Stout 5000.0.440.600
Vintage 6200.Medium 60.350.0


Example:

From above, the Best Extra Stout is: 82% pale malt, 8% wheat malt and 10% black malt.

The stout tin is 80% pale malt, 7% wheat malt, and 13% black malt.

Assuming that the tin, when completely dried, would be 80% of its initial weight of 1.7kg, that would make it 1360g. Its weights of dried components are therefore:

pale.crystal.wheat.black
1040g.0g.91g.169g

Now, we want 3350g in total to produce the 6.3% ABV of the Extra. So, in addition to what's provided by the tin, we need:

2750g pale - 1040 = 1710
268g wheat - 91 = 177
335g black - 169 = 166

Now, assuming that DDME is LDME plus some other stuff to make it dark, I can replace the 1710g of pale malt plus 166g of black malt with 1kg DDME and 1kg LDME. Add 200g of wheat malt, and our malt schedule is done. Add a bit of Goldings to bring the IBU up, and that's it!

Hope someone out there enjoyed that! ;)
w00t!
User avatar
rwh
 
Posts: 2810
Joined: Friday Jun 16, 2006 1:47 pm
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Re: Coopers White board

Postby gregb » Sunday Feb 01, 2009 6:15 pm

Made a sticky out of the significant post on this thread.

Cheers,
Greg
User avatar
gregb
Moderator
 
Posts: 2620
Joined: Saturday Sep 25, 2004 9:12 am
Location: Sydney


Return to Recipes

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 20 guests