Coopers Lager Kit
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I wish. Bottling wand into my secondhand bottles is more like it. Unless I can get my hands on 40-50 300ml swing topsAye, tweaked by investing in some form of nitrogen infusing carbonation into a Corny perhaps for that extra special and renowned head?
For some strange reason when I last bought my second-second hand kit. The person gave me a load of those tops but no bottles. I may consider getting my dremel out and cutting some incisions into my glass bottles to fit hehe.
Dry hopping is pretty much the same as pitching yeast or adding ingredients later into the fermentation, usually done a few days before bottling or kegging. Brew in a bag or all grain is a little different. But as you grow in confidence you'll do it on auto pilot
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Good point... i do see alot of people who love the initial taste
I will bottle after 2 weeks and leave for 3 months before tucking in
I think i am going to try the Coopers stout kit or Cerveza kit next - What is the best Coopers kit you have made?
Hi there. I've just bottled my very first kit. A coopers mexican cerveza. Easy enough to make. Mixed in the fermenter Monday night. Tuesday and Wednesday the airlock was quite busy! Slows down in around 3 days. I left it in for 10 days then syphoned it into a secondary tap bucket and left it in there for another 3 days. Primed 500ml ml coopers bottles with granulated sugar (after sterilising) then filled the bottles (and spilled some on floor as you do). Smells great!. Currently in the spare room. Might crack one open after about 2 weeks to test!. I'm pretty patient in waiting to drink so hopefully will get the best out of it
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I brewed a coppers European lager. Aged in bottles for about six weeks. Absolutely fantastic. Fermented at 20 which was a little high. No aftertastes. It was wonderful. I will make some again when the weather cools down so I can lager properly.
If you do the Euro lager again and ferment at lower temperatures, the 7g lager yeast supplied will go down to about 15*C, but below that it seems to be hit or miss whether it will stall or not. Mine was a miss. So the safest option is to ferment with more lager yeast, say two packets.
And if your lager is only 6 weeks old it should get better, indeed Coopers themselves recommend 3 month conditioning.
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Thanks. I’ll look into the additional yeast.
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