I am brewing an English Bitter by Coopers Homebrew as my first. Does anyone have any opinions or pointers on this European Lager? I didn't want to do a lager for my first batch but this seemed to be the only one I could find.
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The cooper's English bitter is an ale,not a lager. Is it the International Series can you have? Adding two of the boxes of cooper's light DME & an ounce of East Kent Golding is supposed to give a close Fuller's clone.
unionrdr said it.. He has a lot of experience with Coopers extracts.
I was given a cooper's English Bitter kit package as a thank you gift from makebeer.net. It had the box of cooper's light DME & the carb drops. I saved the carb drops,as bulk priming is def better.
Priming to style with this calculator; http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html I primed it to the English ordinary bitter listed. All are BJCP style standards. But I found the 1.3 volumes to be a bit too flat tasting to me. I think 1.8 volumes would def be better. The bottled bitters are said to have more carbonation than the cask ones. I def think you'd like the 1.8 volumes better with this one. Properly brewed,it's pretty darn good with pit bbq. So if you're into BBQ Pit Boys,you'll get it!
Priming to style with this calculator; http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html I primed it to the English ordinary bitter listed. All are BJCP style standards. But I found the 1.3 volumes to be a bit too flat tasting to me. I think 1.8 volumes would def be better. The bottled bitters are said to have more carbonation than the cask ones. I def think you'd like the 1.8 volumes better with this one. Properly brewed,it's pretty darn good with pit bbq. So if you're into BBQ Pit Boys,you'll get it!
I have one fermenting now. I did it by the book with all items included in the package only. Although I am pretty certain I could bottle now, I am giving it a full two weeks in the fermenter prior to moving it to the bottles. I have never drank an English bitter and only purchased this kit at the wife's request so I will have to get her opinion on it once it's bottled for 2 or so weeks to see how close it is to what she had in England.
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