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Got a Thomas Cooper IPA. Was wondering how to best make use of it?Does anyone have experience with this one?

Make beer ?

Have a look at the host of recipes on this forum. Plenty of ideas there!

I made this kit a few weeks ago with a nice simple recipe.
Boil half of the can with 2litres of water for 10 minutes.
Add 1kg Megabooster (500g LDME, 250g dextrose and 250g maltodextrin) and 15g willamette hops for another 5 minutes.
Put the boil and remainder of can into your fermenter and make up to 22 litres.

Enjoyed drinking it - I do rate the Thomas Coopers kits

You boiled the kit???

In the words of Trough Lolly from a different post...
Boiling a kit concentrate will however knock out some of the hop flavour and aroma - which is fine if you have a kit but don't like their hop additions and want to change the beer's hop profile with extra hops. If you do that regularly, then perhaps you're better off just buying unhopped malt extract rather than paying extra for a kit and then altering the hop profile...

Ive used this kit a couple of times, its great with fuggles.

Boil a tin of Coopers Amber Malt Extra with 5-6 l water:

20gms Fuggles for 20mins
20gms Fuggles at flame out.

Then chuck it all in the fermentor with the kit + kit yeast (or US-04) up to 23l and bobs yer uncle..

jadk42 wrote:Got a Thomas Cooper IPA. Was wondering how to best make use of it?Does anyone have experience with this one?

I did a Morgan IPA with the Homebrew shops version of Coopers BE2 and from my tasting notes, very early stages in my Brewing, I gave it 12/15....dont ask me why I rate them out of 15. Actually I'll tell you, when we sat and "sampled" a shiteload and was marking them, we gave alot of 7/10, so we upped the ante to 15 to seperate the beers. Could have done out of 100, but after that many beers, we could not count that high

Sorry drifted there. If you want a simple straight brew, try that. I have done 2 IPA's but they were early in the piece.

If you wanted to try them with Malt and Hops I'd try this...remember though, I have not done this so it is basic and not tested therefore, all care but no responsibility taken. But this is what I would try.

1 Can Morgans Liquid Pale Malt 1.5KG
10 Goldings 15 Minutes
10g Dry Hopped at rack....if not racking open fermenter after 4 days, carefully, and throw in the hops.
Coopers Website does not have the IBU, but they did say "A strong ale with robust malt characters and very high hopping levels. Use with 500g Light Dry Malt + 300g Dextrose"
I kept on the safe side with the hopping. If you like hops, add more

EDIT, I suggested Goldings due to Recipes previously read on IPA's

I hope this helps

Cheers

Boonie

bellboys backyard brew wrote:You boiled the kit???

In the words of Trough Lolly from a different post...
Boiling a kit concentrate will however knock out some of the hop flavour and aroma - which is fine if you have a kit but don't like their hop additions and want to change the beer's hop profile with extra hops. If you do that regularly, then perhaps you're better off just buying unhopped malt extract rather than paying extra for a kit and then altering the hop profile...

I boiled half the kit