-wombat
Thomas Cooper's Premium Selection Sparkling Ale
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 weaker about it was the hopping (my bad).
i followed the instructions almost exactly to cooper's specifications and you know what? i came out with an awesome beer
the only modifications i made to the cooper's recipe were:
- liquid yeast starter from 1 longneck of cooper's sparkling ale to assist the dried yeast.
- 10g of pride of ringwood hop pellets added to the hot wort and left to sit for about 1 minute in the fermenter before i filled it up with cold water.
great aroma and body in this beer.
i will make this beer again, but next time i will make a 2 longneck sparkling ale yeast starter to assist the dried yeast and i will use 20g of pride of ringwood hop pellets instead of only 10g.
fantastic result. congratulations, dr. cooper
-wombat
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 weaker about it was the hopping (my bad).
i followed the instructions almost exactly to cooper's specifications and you know what? i came out with an awesome beer
the only modifications i made to the cooper's recipe were:
- liquid yeast starter from 1 longneck of cooper's sparkling ale to assist the dried yeast.
- 10g of pride of ringwood hop pellets added to the hot wort and left to sit for about 1 minute in the fermenter before i filled it up with cold water.
great aroma and body in this beer.
i will make this beer again, but next time i will make a 2 longneck sparkling ale yeast starter to assist the dried yeast and i will use 20g of pride of ringwood hop pellets instead of only 10g.
fantastic result. congratulations, dr. cooper
-wombat
light dried malt or light DME
Glad you made a "keeper" - or what I like to call a HB you'll brew again - Wombat. Just one question, did you use 500g light dried malt or light DME? I've mixed them up before 
Cheers,
Jay.
Cheers,
Jay.
light dried malt and light DME-again
See last post
Is there a difference between the two? I assumed there was because the 1kg cooper's light dried malt I used was so much harder to dissolve than the 1kg light DME I have used in the past.
Jay.
Is there a difference between the two? I assumed there was because the 1kg cooper's light dried malt I used was so much harder to dissolve than the 1kg light DME I have used in the past.
Jay.
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Guest
They are both light malt extracts, only the dried version DME will give you a higher level of fermentable sugars per weight.
Another thing i have noticed some people here using dry yeast with yeast cultured out of the coopers bottles. I would recomend just using the yest out of the coopers bottles and you will be surprised the amount of diference that this yeast imparts to your beer.
At all time ( time permiting) you should allways use a liquid yeast from a bottle conditioned beer such as coopers etc or a wyeast product etc, i can not tell you enough what a huge diference this will make to your beers.
Another thing i have noticed some people here using dry yeast with yeast cultured out of the coopers bottles. I would recomend just using the yest out of the coopers bottles and you will be surprised the amount of diference that this yeast imparts to your beer.
At all time ( time permiting) you should allways use a liquid yeast from a bottle conditioned beer such as coopers etc or a wyeast product etc, i can not tell you enough what a huge diference this will make to your beers.
FOR A HARD EARNED THIRST THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A GOOD HOME BREW...
Matty and Wombat, I wish I could share your enthusiasm for the Coopers Sparkling clone. I did one with exactly the same ingredients and a CSA yeast starter. Even brewed it under temp control at 20 degrees. It had a bit of a funky taste just after I kegged it (kinda soapy flavour). I thought this would lager out with time.
Poured me a schooner of it the other day. Still cloudy as Thomas intended. Looked like the real deal, tasted fricken terrible. Rather than the soapy taste mellowing out, it seemed to have gotten stronger. So off to Malabar with that keg me thinks (as in down the toilet). Breaks my heart.
I'm going to give it another go though. This time with a can, 1.5 kg LME (should bring it closer to the original 5.8%abv) and a different hop. Anyone know of a hop that is close to P.O.R. yet not P.O.R. ?
Poured me a schooner of it the other day. Still cloudy as Thomas intended. Looked like the real deal, tasted fricken terrible. Rather than the soapy taste mellowing out, it seemed to have gotten stronger. So off to Malabar with that keg me thinks (as in down the toilet). Breaks my heart.
I'm going to give it another go though. This time with a can, 1.5 kg LME (should bring it closer to the original 5.8%abv) and a different hop. Anyone know of a hop that is close to P.O.R. yet not P.O.R. ?
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