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Need some advice on how to make a great brew even better. Am chassing the holy grail here, so would appreciate some feedback here and i think, but am sure, a better sparkling ale is brewable. My standard brew for this recipe is: 1.5 coopers sparkling ale kit 1.5 black rock light extract 500grms glucose 500grms ldme This makes a great beer, how do you improve on this? have brewed this twice now, but i sense there are many variations to this fantastic beer u guys have played around with. The beer i make is good, but i think it can be betterd.

The best way would be to add some finishing hops.

I would suggest using all malt instead of adding glucose. Once you've done an all-malt brew you will hesitate to put anything else in your beer.

Hi all,
I have tried the Cooper's website recipe i.e....
1.7kg Premium Selection Sparkling Ale
1.5kg Thomas Coopers Light Malt Extract
500g Coopers Light Dry Malt
300g Dextrose/Sucrose
with I think a reasonable amount of success.
My only addition to it is some pride of ringwood hops after about 10 days of fermenting - dry hop(?).
Not real bad in my opinion...
In fact no that I think of it I will put it on the list to do again!
dasher

Some good ideas there , will give em a go. Just inherited all my brothers brewing gear ( after the arrival of his third son in 3 years ) so i'm planing to brew 4 variations at the same time . So far there's been no shortage of volunteers for judging. Cheer's daz

hi
am in the process of putting together the ingredients for "enter the dragon stout" the recipe call for coopers sparkling ale yeast but i am struggling to get it i was wondering i could use the same yeast as the original dragon stout which calls for stafel yeast and if so what difference will it make to the taste of the finished ale
cheers
gorymorph

gorymorph, I answered your other post. Please don't cross post- it annoys people.

G'day all, I did a coopers SA last month:
CSA tin
1.7kg Coopers LME
500g LDME
500g Coopers brewing sugar

It's turned out OK, but it's just not quite right - it seems a bit too "sweet", i know CSA has quite a "fruity" taste to it but nothing like this . Has anyone any suggestions on how i would improve this as i am still quite new to the craft?
Cheers

You need some finishing hops to balance it. Coopers use Pride of Ringwood, try 15g at 15 mins and 15g at 5 mins. I've got an extract recipe here:

http://helms-deep.cable.nu/~rwh/blog/beer/?p=60

Try throwing a big knob of butter in, the CSAs I've tried tasted of diacytal.

Jub.