Recent content by PaleMan

I don't really mash low in an attempt to almost clone a Coopers, I'm not that fussy. Usually 64 - 65 C. Attenuation all i can say is my beers finish around 1009 - 1010. I have also used Coopers dry yeast with good results, but doesn't quite get that Coopers taste. The best thing here is to make...

I keg, and usually get stuck in after about 7 - 8 days, sometimes earlier. I carb my beers at around 14 psi. I'm very impatient. My wife isnt a beer drinker but she loves my versions of the Sparkling 5.8% and Pale Ale 4.5%.

Coopers profess to use all malt these days and haven't used sugar since the late 90's. But nothing wrong with that for an old fashioned authentic recipe. I have once or twice and still makes a great beer.

Its quite simple, a base ale malt, with some wheat malt. Add a touch of dark chrystal malt to get your colour around 11 EBC. I use one hop addition, Pride of Ringwood at 60 minutes to 30 IBU's. ABV around 5.5 - 5.8%. One real key though is to culture the yeast from Coopers Pale Ale bottles...

Coopers Sparkling isnt a very complex beer, but none the less tasty. Malt driven, with a floral fruitiness. But a nice bitter after taste.

If any of you can get it, this is the flagship of Australian Sparkling Ale. I brew mine to the exact ABV, EBC and IBU's to this. Makes an easy to brew, tasty homebrew.

Hilarious, did your passengers get home safely?

I suggest you dont, will ruin what looks like a nice recipe.

Ive gone from Brew In A Basket without a pump to Brewzilla 35L. Love it and haven't looked back. My beers seem to be clearer and more to point.

Just got my 35 litre 3.1.1 and managed two brew days in a row. What a great little machine. Hit my numbers spot on with both brews. Having used a pot with basket and gas, this setup is awesom. Version 4 out in December here in Australia.

Kolsch

First all grain Pils i ever made was all Pilsner malt and bittered with hallertau mittlfrue and no late hop addition at all. Quite impressed with myself. Cracking beer.

Buddy?? Its Mate. Youre mate, not a buddy. And whats with you lot using imperial measurements? Its kilo, not pound. I could go on. You mob have one thing correct. Guns N Roses. Touring in my little Aussie city. I cant wait.

A stout tap ( faucet ) wont give you Guinness. What is it with you Americans using hard words. Tap, faucet. Who says faucet? Its a tap. What is a faucet??

Good luck with that, they've been brewing for many years. You may make a cracking stout, but you wont clone Guinness. If you do, they'll be out of business.