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I've got a couple of batches of beer and cider through my Grolsch bottles so far with the original seals in place. So far no problems.

Unless I'm mistaken the beer will be around 2.5 times as bitter as it would be made up to the full 5 gallons. You might not mind this however. Some recipes call for 2 or more cans of hopped extract. For instance: Coopers Russian Imperial Stout 1 can each: Coopers Stout Coopers Dark Ale...

I started brewing with Coopers kits back in 2012. Added steeping grain and DME to the kits. Then started doing mini mashes using Coopers kits as a base. Realized mini mashing was nearly as time consuming (and more expensive) than all grain so I made the switch. A couple of years ago life got...

Thanks for the input. My intention was to just do that but then I figured I'd run it by HBT first to see if anyone thought differently or had a similar situation happen to them and how they dealt with it.

5 weeks ago I set the temperature control on my fermentation fridge to 1dC to cold crash an ale. The ale was still in the primary fermenter sitting on the trub. For reasons beyond my control I did not have an opportunity to bottle the beer until now (and maybe not for another week yet). I think...

"I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss" Hopefully the Matrix will have a subroutine for a decent chocolate stout. To get back on...

Hard Cider. Fermented cheap apple juice (from concentrate) with Nottingham yeast and yeast nutrient. I didn't add any extra sugar. I left it in primary for a month. On Bottling day I primed with table sugar and sweetened with Xyla. I also used Lorann Green Apple Flavor to enhance the apple...

Czech Pilsner recipe from the Coopers recipe website. Fermented with W34/70 using the Brulosophy quick lager method (with gelatin fining). Really clear and tastes pretty decent.

I've used the method outlined on Brulosophy a couple of times and my beer was noticeably clearer as a result. I have a lager that I will be cold crashing and fining with gelatin this weekend. I'm combining the gelatin method with the quick lager method Brulosopher has wrote about.

Found Elizabeth Postal randomly while YouTubing. She's got a lot of interesting stuff.

Cooper's Brew A IPA kit made with 1 kg light DME, fermented with US-05 and dry hopped with an ounce of Cascade. It's not too bad at all.

Cooper's Czech Pilsner (recipe from Cooper's website) Cooper's 86 Days Pilsner Kit 1kg light DME 1oz Saaz hops (hop tea strained into fermenter) Kit yeast + 1 pkg of Saflager W-34/70 (re-hydrated) Batch volume: 21 litres I will be using the Brulosophy fast lager method (including clearing...

Rockstar Vodka Original My wife bought it for me (really) along with a can of Captain Morgan Spiked Root Beer(?) and 2 cans of Old Speckled Hen (I had these before and really like them). The Rockstar is pretty sweet. I imagine if I were at a dance club this would give me both the courage...

I went on sabbatical from all grain brewing back in September and have returned to Cooper's kits as my primary source of homebrewed beer. I generally buy a kit and a kilo of DME (along with extra hops, specialty grain and different yeast but that's beside the point). So I guess that makes my LME...

Chocolate stout. Cooper's Original Series Stout kit 1kg Dark DME 250gr Chocolate malt 6ish heaping tablespoons of Cocoa 2-3 tablespoons of lactose (leftover from previous brew) 10-20ml Chocolate extract 2 7gr packages of Cooper's yeast Steeped the chocolate malt at around 155f for a half hour...