The origin of brewing

[Chris]

Coopers looks like it has gotten over the 50% mark at the moment. I wonder what it'll be like after Christmas...

[scanman]

scanman, I've got two of the orange lid ones- I never knew what they were though. I got them both new for $30 when the HB shop was trying to clear out the back room. I wish the damn things had volume marked on the sides!

But at least those stupid lids were the reason I went to gladwrap.

Have not been game to try glad wrap yet, but it on my list of things to try out with HB. Having said that, he two I have with the orange lids seem to be the ones where the lids tighten the best, and are always hard to undo, and I think give me the best seal.
I have one similar with a red lid, which has a different rubber seal inside, and the lid never seems as tight. None of them leak at all, they all go well.
I also have a pail and lastly, a 25 litre camping drum with a tap and screw on lid which I got form bunnings for $15 with a tap attached ( I think i was suupose to pay seperate for thr tap, but they didnt say anything at the counter. I use this and the pail for racking and cold conditioning maily.

[Oliver]

Mine was a kit from Geelong Home Brewing that Geoff bought me for my 24th birthday in 1996. Amazingly, I still have all the bits and pieces, including the hydrometer, 11 years later.

Cheers,

Oliver

[SpillsMostOfIt]

I used to work with a guy who spoke occasionally about how he made his own beer from Coopers tins. I left the company but had a beer with him and some others for some unimportant reason and we spoke of it again.

The next Sunday I just decided to buy one and see what all the fuss was about. Jumped in the car and found a Coopers kit in the nearest Kmart. Watched the video. Read all the directions. Made the beer. Exactly as Paul said.

Waited. Bottled the beer. Looked just like beer.
Waited. Opened the beer. Did not taste like beer. No matter, I was hooked.
Time passed. (If you are bored enough, you can probably determine exactly when I started by combing through my early posts in this place.)

This coming week, that guy will be coming around to my house so I can introduce him to the wonders of grain-brewed beer and perhaps convince him to buy a big boiler and mega-heat source, a fermentation fridge, liquid yeasts, a stir plate, bulk hops and grain, his seventh fermenter...

We'll be making a double-batch of Denny Conn's Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter. That oughta do it.

[Sulli]

I got started thanks to a Wander kit from Kmart