Recent content by HoosierInFL

That would require me keeping my house at 65F. Can't do that. I live in south Florida, so things are always warm around here. I found a small used freezer for super cheap, so I am just going to use that with a temp controller.

I can do without the snarky comments. I am not home for a minimum of 12 hours every day, so yeah, it would be hard.

Is it not a pain to keep checking temps, swapping frozen bottles, etc for weeks?

After completing my first batch I am looking at what to brew next. Some recipes call for fermentation temps to be in the 60'sF. How do you keep the fermentation vessel that cold? Keep in mind I have the Coopers DIY kit. Thanks.

I contacted Coopers and they are sending me a replacement tap without argument. I still have concerns, because just the act of inserting the bottling tube into the tap caused it to leak because it pushed up that section of the tap.

Yeah, I need to contact them about it. I opened a bottle after one week just to check on it. I did't want to wait weeks just to find out the beer is bad. It is already very drinkable, and will be awesome in a few weeks.

I added the water to it after fermentation was done. I then let it sit for a few days after that. Everything seems to have gone well. I tried a bottle a week after it was bottled and it tastes good already. I really need to do something about the leaking tap on the Coopers kit. Made a bit of a...

Brewed my first batch a couple weeks ago. I used the Lager kit that came with it. All went well. My only complaint is that the tap leaks quite a bit and it took me a long time to get it situated so that it would stop leaking (common complaint on Amazon). It also caused a mess when bottling. The...

Bottled my first batch a week ago. As a previous poster stated, the bubbles were pushed to the top and out the bottle. I tried one of the beers today just to make sure all was well and it's fantastic already.

So after 6 days it would still be fine to do this? Would it lengthen the fermentation time?

I didn't know if it was ok to do that or not since it had already been in the fermentor for two days.

The parts are in as firmly as I can possibly make them. The main leakage is at the "T" where the tap handle is. It's not leaking now, but it will when I start turning it at bottling time.

The tap that comes with the Coopers fermentor doesn't use washers. It doesn't screw in, either. You slide it in and the rubber rings around it make the seal. It's cheap.

Newb here. I purchased the Coopers DIY beer kit. Things seem to be going fine. Fermentation process looks good. However, I was going over the instructions again, and I missed the part where after filling water up to the 20L level it says to top off up to the 23L mark. So, I'm about 3/4 of a...