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Hi What does the panel think I can do with my left over hops, malt and tins? 1 x Coopers 86 Days Pilsner tin 1 x Muntons Traditional Bitter tin 1 x Belle Saison yeasties 1 x 500g Medium Spray Malt 250g Caramalt ~30g Cascade hobs ~50g Challenger hobs ~80g Perle hobs...

HI I got some spare Challenger hops that I would like to use up. What kits do the panel think would well with a bit extra either as in the mix or dry hopping? Thanks

Hi Been playing around with Coopers and Festival kits over the last few years and I got a few good ones out them. I'm looking to get a nice winter ale (not crimbo/ba-humbug thing or stout/porter). But a full body ale/IPA. Something that you can sit down next to the log fire after a good...

Eh up! I only brew kits, too lazy to do anything other than "pot-noodle" brewing. I failed in my forward planing and my stock is running low. I need a nice brew for end August and one for early Autumn. What would you recommend kit wise for a beer that will brew in the 20-22c area? Don't...

erm I mean cleaning bottles. Today is bottling day for my Blonde Ale, so that means cleaning bottles from the shed. Checked them over, rinsed them good and then drowned/soaked them in a VWP mix and then gave them squirt of StarSan to drip dry Before you call me in for animal cruelty...

My partner fell over this on Farcebook (Cononley Village Page/Group) and said I should go. I don't know more that what I see on this flyer/image. Farcebook hold no more information. I'll be going since it is only down the road from me, though I still wonder what the lass is up to on...

Eh up! I got given three clear and one brown demi john's about three years ago. Sadly they are just standing around in the garden, doing now't. So for the ultra high price of one of your home brews, you are welcome to take them home. I might throw one of my homebrew's into the deal...

So it was finally time to restock and I decided I would use what leftovers there were laying about. Popped down to the cheap shop who sells homebrew stuff got a Coopers IPA, funny enough it was their last too. So I brewed up: 1 tin Coppers IPA 1 tin Coopers light malt (had) 500g...

Hello I just sent a bottle to Switzerland which took three weeks to arrive. Where a small gift to the US and Denmark send on the same day arrived 4-5 days later. Nothing special requested from Royal Mail. Though keep the weight of the parcel below 1Kg and it will be under £8. I would...

Hi We don't drink wine but do cook a lot and now again a recipe calls for a drop. I got two demijohns and was thinking about doing a red and a white. Do you have on tips for a quick recipe? How long does it take, can you do a small batch and how long do it store/last? Many thanks...

Brewed up the Coopers Authentic IPA, clicky. It calls for two packets of yeasties, I used the on from the kit and then added a 7g Muntons Gold Beer Yeast. And instead of 1kg light spray malt I used 1x500g light spray malt and 1x500g hopped spray malt. OG was 1050 and it went off at 20c...

Big morning planned - bottling a fresh draught and starting an IPA. The bottling went well, three more than guesstimated, so a win. The flow was going well, tunes on the HiFi, dog asleep on the sofa, better half at work - just me and the beer. Nothing fancy a Coopers IPA kit with...

Other than trying hard to keep the mutts fur out of the brewing process. I found another danger today. Our foster dog found the fleece that was wrapped around the FV and decided that he wanted to play with it. He manged to give two hard tugs before I could come the rescue of my beer. Lucky...

Just toying with some ideas regarding how to keep the FV cosy, this time of the year. Clicking about on the 'interweb and fell over this, an electric plate warmer. Going for about £13-40 on fleabay. That should give a bigger area, of contact, than a brew belt when wrapped around the...

So what is room temperature? The way we know it is time to put on a jumper is when the nutella is hard. We live in a 120 year old end off terrace house, oop north. At the most we fire up the central heating to heat the room we are in, just to take the chill that the jumper can't do. When...

Just bottled my crimbo brew and stored them away. Not to be seen for another three months. Which took up the last bottle storing place I had free. I want to put the American Blonde Ale in the FV to get that started. But that means I will have no place to store the bottles in two weeks time...

Hi I'm knocking this aka Marilyn's Secret : 1.7kg Thomas Coopers Sparkling Ale 1.5kg Thomas Coopers Wheat Malt Extract 500g Light Dry Malt 25g Motueka Hop Pellets 25g Vic Secret Hop Pellets One sachet of BRY-97 I got everything else, though can't find the Vic Secret Hop Pellets. So...

I tried the Deschutes Brewery's Chainbreaker a white IPA, when I was in Portland Oregon. I truly enjoyed this beer a mix of IPA and white beer. Today I found that they have a recipe for a clone on their website - http://www.deschutesbrewery.com/recipe/chainbreaker-white-ipa-clone . Now for...

Just thinking out loud. After I mixed up a Crimbo beer with brown sugar, star anise, vanilla bean pod, cinnamon sticks and coriander seeds. Quite a lot of that is used in some flavoured tea I have drunk over the years. So I was thinking taking a few bags of Yorkshire tea and brew up two strong...

Sorry for the cheesy intro, but it got you clicking :-) After many years saying "I gotta do some home brewing one day". I finally got started in the simplest way I could think off - a Coopers DIY kit. I fired it up with what came in the box - a lager. After some lurking on this and other...