Hello!! Great site with lots of valuable insights, I have enjoyed reading here. Decided to take up homebrewing recently and picked up the Coopers Home Brew kit. This seems like a decent kit for the money, and the fermenter seems to be pretty high quality.
My first beer is a Coopers IPA using the hopped extract, supplied yeast and adding 500g of light dry malt and 300g dextrose, per the instructions. Fermented for 6 days and then bottled. After two weeks in the bottle, beer is pretty clear and well carbonated, but the flavor doesn't seem well blended yet. I am guessing this is because it needs longer to age, or the kit I used isn't the best.
Would like to make something next that more closely emulates the beers I normally drink (Sierra Nevada Pale, Victory Hop Devil, Longtrail Ale, etc)
I will soon be getting some glass carboys, more bottles, brew kettle and other equipment from my Dad, who stopped brewing once he could get decent beer at the store. I am thinking of picking up a kit from Northern brewer for my next batch. Anybody know if they are any good?
Thanks!
My first beer is a Coopers IPA using the hopped extract, supplied yeast and adding 500g of light dry malt and 300g dextrose, per the instructions. Fermented for 6 days and then bottled. After two weeks in the bottle, beer is pretty clear and well carbonated, but the flavor doesn't seem well blended yet. I am guessing this is because it needs longer to age, or the kit I used isn't the best.
Would like to make something next that more closely emulates the beers I normally drink (Sierra Nevada Pale, Victory Hop Devil, Longtrail Ale, etc)
I will soon be getting some glass carboys, more bottles, brew kettle and other equipment from my Dad, who stopped brewing once he could get decent beer at the store. I am thinking of picking up a kit from Northern brewer for my next batch. Anybody know if they are any good?
Thanks!
