What's your favorite homebrew brand?

[Oliver]

There are dozens of brands of homebrew cans to choose from. What's your favorite? Cast your vote above and make a comment.

[Dory]

I have only just started brewing earlier this year. So far I have only tried the Coopers. I find that the Coopers brews are pretty consistent and dead easy. Once I learn the ropes so to speak I want to try some different brands and do some funky stuff with Hops & different kinds of fermentables! But so far I find the Coopers brews excellent.

Cheers
Dory

[Gough]

Hi fellas,

Most of the kits listed above are quality kits with strong points in their favour. Coopers, Morgans and Muntons all make good consistent kits as do a lot of the others. As I said in another post though when I was brewing a lot of kits I couldn't go past the ESB 3kg kits. Great varieties and really consistent results. Even better, they come with Saf yeasts, either the Safale, W34/70 lager or the wheat depending on the variety. And no I don't have shares in the company by the way

Good brewing,

Gough

[ashy]

Due to living in the country SA I have a limited option and have only ever tried brewing Coopers or Morgans. I have found the Coopers beer better and prefer Morgans for the Stout

Ashy

[morry]

I voted beermakers, because the best beer Ive made was the beermakers dutch lager. Ive tried others like muntons and coopers, which both seem to be pretty good. The only dodgy one I have tried is Bacchus and Barley, which is a local brew shops own brand. It was pretty terrible.

[Dogger Dan]

Coopers seems to give me best quality for the buck and it is realatively easy to get. I have tried Edme and John Bull. John Bull was OK, Edme was kife. My only complaint with Coopers is I sometimes get a dud yeast.

I have tried some local kits which were just hopeless, bacterial infections due to poor packaging etc.

Doggerl

[Super Max Power]

Dan, you get Coopers in Canada? Cool, I didn't realise their roots spread that deep.

When I use Coopers I always get some Saf yeast just incase - I have had a few duds too.

[Dogger Dan]

It is likely the most popular beer kit out here and I buy it by the case (6 kits), that way I can normally get something I am partial to rather than what is left on the shelves. What I can't figure is how they can ship this stuff halfway around the world and still be on par with our own folks cost wise and be well above as far as quality

Actually, I found this site while I was looking for Coopers web page.

Dogger

[Guest]

cause cooper's is just great value
$9 from the supermaket for the standard can, and $13 from brew stores for the premium and international cans. australian dollars that is.
also, if you're having inconsistencies with your cooper's yeast just make a starter out of a bottle of cooper's instead of buying a safale or saflager. that way you'll still pay the same price for the yeast, but you'll get a free bottle of beer
-wombat

[Matty]

My vote would definately go with Cooper's!! They're Australian, a good price, nice brews and I've never had any probs with them!!!!

Matty

p.s. How do I vote, no boxs to tick or any thing?

[Oliver]

Hi Matty,

You have to be logged in to vote. Then it should just be a matter of clicking in the little circle next to your choice and clicking "Submit vote".

Also, you can only vote once, so if you've voted already you won't be able to vote again, just see the results.

Cheers,

Oliver

[grabman]

I put my hand up for the Cascade kits, I've just bottled a Cascade Chocolate Mahognay Porter and if the SG tastes are anything to go by it's a bloody winner. Also drinking at the moment the Cascade Voyager Pale Ale, a nice drop as well.

[thehipone]

I agree, the cascade kits are certainly good.
I've got a Malt shovel summer wheat that's going in soon. I'm interested to see how it turns out. They are a little more expensive (you need 2 kits per 23L batch) but are all malt and you get a 10gm pack of style specific yeast ( German Hefeweizen in the summer wheat) which makes them pretty cost competetive with the kit+DME+saf-yeast approach.

Anyone made the MSB kits?

[Andy]

Coopers is good, nice price (about £8.50) and easy to brew. Not that many brews under the belt yet though and there are many many to choose from in England.

[Matty]

I've done one MSB brew, 2-row lager. The MSB site has a couple of recioes on it so I thought I'd try one of them. It was a 2-row lager kit and a can of Boysenberries. Only made it up to the 11 litres and bottled it a few weeks ago, should be pretty nice come the hot summer days.

Cheers,

Matty

[Beau]

I'd have to say Black Rock. They have a wide range to select from and I've made nothing but excellent brews from all their kits I've tried.

[Boonie]

Close one.

I voted for Morgans as every one I have made is top quality and tasted fantastic.

Coopers a very close second as they too have high class beers.

Morgans Blue Mountain is my favourite so far , with Coopers Pale Ale & Sparkling Ale 2nd and 3rd then Morgans Draught 4th, Morgans Black 5th .

This is based on standard beers with no hops. Coopers Pale with Saaz at rack and Hallertau at Brew one of my best.....

Cheers

Boonie

[blandy]

I voted Black Rock, as their cider can't be beat!

That said, i racked my Coopers sparkling Ale about an hour ago. after having a taste, it was hard not to forget about aiming it into the fermenter and direct the siphon towards my mouth.

mmmmm flat warm homebrew that is hard not to drink...

[gregb]

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mmmmm flat warm homebrew that is hard not to drink...

Sometimes you wonder why we go to all that effort of bottling, maturation and refrigeration, eh.

Cheers,
Greg

[chris.]

....
mmmmm flat warm homebrew that is hard not to drink...

Sometimes you wonder why we go to all that effort of bottling, maturation and refrigeration, eh.

Cheers,
Greg

I was pondering the same question earlier tonight, sprawled out on my back, infront of the fermentor, with my lips wrapped around the spigot

ESB fresh wort kits are my kit of choice.