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G'Day guys,

I have a can of both Cooper's Australian Pale Ale and Cooper's Bitter and would like some recipe sugestions please.

Is the kit yeast ok or do you recommend something better?

Also what temp range should I try to maintain?

What about hops?

I have made a few brews before using the suggested recipes and now would like to try something a bit better

Cheers...

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I made the pale ale a couple of months back. Brewed at 20*C and found it to have a sulphery note. I should have racked it for a week or so. I made it as directed on tin with 1kg BE2. Next time I would definatley hop it with cascade or somethingwith a citrus flavor. Still waiting for it to come good. So far emergency beer only.

I did the bitter before the pale ale with 1kg BE2 like the links above and for the money/time etc it really is a top beer. I used the kit yeast at 20*C. Couldn't taste the yeast in the beer. Good after 2 weeks. Great after 4-5.

Cheers


Jub

Thanks for the links ACTbrewer and JubJub for your info...

Jacko,

With the Pale Ale I'd put it down with 1 kg of LDME, dry hop with 20gm of Cascade hops and either puchase some liquid yeast from the HBS or go with Safale.

With the Bitter I'd go with Ultra Brew or again a kilo of LDME and I'd use 20gm of either Fuggles or Goldings and dry hop. Again I'd use Safale to ferment with.

I have to admit my knowledge of Bitter is practically non existatnt because I don't like it as a style of beer, but can appreciate that some people do.

Wassa wrote pretty much exactly what I would have suggested.

Sounds good Wassa.

Excuse my lack of knowledge, but how does one dry hop?

My local HBS sell the hops you mention in pellet form.

Also would there be any benefit in using grain with these recipes?

cheers...

Thanks rwh, that cleared things up for me

What I do to dry hop is throw the hop pellets into my fermenter with the dissolved kit and fermentables and top up with cold water.

Works for me and gives mee what I'm after.

I always use 1.5 kg of liquid malt,300 grams of dextrose and 200 grams of wheat malt(for head). Safale us 56 yeast in summer and saflager s 23 in winter.It always gives me an og of 1046 to 1050 and a constant 5 percent alcohol after finishing brewing.

Just put down a Cooper's Bitter

1 can Cooper’s Bitter
500g - LME
75g pale choc malt
400 gm CaraMunich
250gm yellow box honey

Grains steeped in grainbag at 60deg for 1/2 hr

All other ingredients (except the Cooper's can) brought to boil for about 10mins.

Rehydrated Safale yeast x2 in 500ml of starter.

ACT,

Be interesting to see how that brew turns out with the LDME and Caramunich. I'd have probably gone for 500gm of honey, but everyone to their own taste and you were making a Bitter.

Let me know how it turns out.

Thanks,

Wassa

I put the hops into a stocking first. It's just easier to fish them out.

I put the hops into a stocking first. It's just easier to fish them out.

Thanks for all the replies guys, I have just made a nice little storage area for my fermenters next to my hot water cylinder and temps seem pretty stable in there.

Now to get to work

Cheers....