NZGirl

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So excited... after reading heaps on this forum I realised I need to leave my brew in the primary a lot longer than the 4 - 7 days recommended by the instructions on the Coopers kits, so I went out and bought another primary set up.

Now I have a Coopers lager in the first (4 days so far) and the bubbling has slowed right down to one bubble every few minutes, and a Coopers draught in the second primary (started last night) and it's bubbling away every two seconds or so.

Only newby kits I know, nothing that exciting, but it is to me.

Thanks for such a great and friendly forum.

Revvy

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Congrats there....your obsession is growing.

It doesn't take long.

Soon you'll be approaching this...(unfortunately at the time I took this, two of those carboys were empty, but what you can't see is the two that were secondarying around the corner of the closet to the left.

To the right of the swamp cooler going deep in the closet were 3 rows of double stacked filled cases bottle conditioning.

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Also this is a great article from the Australian Craftbrewer's association website on improving cooper's kit beer...Improving Your Cooper's Kit beers

Over the next few weeks, Bigkahuna and I are going to do some experiments with them as well and write some stuff up.

If you aren't familiar Creaftbrewer radio covers brewing in the Australia/NZ region.

CraftBrewer Radio

There's also archives from when the were on the radio as well...Australian Craft Brewing

You do know that as a part of this place it is obligatory to post a picture of your fermenters, don't you...

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I gotta tell ya, just between us girls, that Revvy is HOT. Very tall, gorgeous grey hair and a terrific smile. He's very good looking in person, with a charismatic personality... he drives like a ****ing maniac! - YooperBrew

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lol - I may need a new house... haven't got enough closet space for a setup like that...

I have one primary in a cupboard next to my hotwater cupboard (carefully monitoring temperature) and the other on my kitchen bench (with a grey rubbish sack loosely covering it to keep out sunlight... and again carefully monitoring temperature)...

I have no other cupboard space (unless I get rid of some clothes... hmmm, lol).

Revvy

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Who needs clothes? Especially in a hot climate...(didn't you say you're self employed...if you don't deal with customers, especially if you do the brunt of your work via phone and computer...who's gonna know? (of course we'd REALLY demand pictures then)

Actually I live in a loft, where only two closets and very little storage space...so I dedicated that living room closet to coats and brewery. I use milk crates and velcro to store stuff.



It ain't pretty, but it works!

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I gotta tell ya, just between us girls, that Revvy is HOT. Very tall, gorgeous grey hair and a terrific smile. He's very good looking in person, with a charismatic personality... he drives like a ****ing maniac! - YooperBrew

pkpdogg

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And don't forget that you'll soon have a lot of bottles to deal with. They take up more space than you'd think. I'm finding it's best to save the box from a case of commercial beer. You can fit a lot of bottles and stack them high to keep them out of the way.

Welcome to the obsession!

Bigsnake

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Congrats! More primaries is always a good thing to have.

With two primaries pumping out beer, eventually you'll have a closet that looks like this just for beer and fermenter storage.

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[QUOTE=Revvy;1019999]Who needs clothes? Especially in a hot climate...(didn't you say you're self employed...if you don't deal with customers, especially if you do the brunt of your work via phone and computer...who's gonna know? (of course we'd REALLY demand pictures then)
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How rude! lol... My friend has my camera but I will try to get some pics done later today, (of the primaries!) nothing very exciting I'm afraid, but hey, can do...

Thanks for the links above, I'll check them out now.

edit: oh, and my business is computer repairs and delivery and installation of televisions and home theatre systems etc... so I cannot turn up naked!

NZGirl

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Absolutely! I am bearing that in mind... I have a (dark and good temperature) place in mind for the bottles... and that basically leaves no more room.

I am thinking about sourcing an old broken down fridge... could put a primary in there and store bottles as well.

NZGirl

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You guys are very neat and organised... I'm impressed... I could learn from this.