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No i did not ferment it at 55F , I said in my original post I fermented in my basement at 67F. I understand that lagers are supposed to be fermented cooler but The coopers website actually recommends fermenting at 20°C/68F or less. Im guessing 68 is the highest the recommend to ferment at, but...

Yes i have a hydrometer and I updated my posts and included the FG , sorry for not mentioning it in the first place. My FG is 1.009, which is where my ale beers usually are around. But how do you know this is an ale beer? The coopers website lists it under Lager and called it a Lager fresh...

Hey everyone, So I just finished bottling like 60 beers of my coopers Draught. I came upstairs to my computer and I looked on the coopers website and was suprised to find out I brewed a LAGER! I had no idea, the can simply says coopers draught, and the ladie in the store told me she had no...

So during fermentation there is a co2 blanket protecting the wine/beer from oxygen. So is there even a point in leaving the fermenter open to the air during fermentation? i thought leaving it open to oxygen would help everything out.

Really? Its okay to wait for it to ferment completly out? iv never heard this before. most people say to attsch it near the end of fermentation. I am a memeber on wine making forum and robie said to adx the air lock when fermentations is almost done. ill post his words below. please give...

wow! theres alot of details in there, alot of new words for me too haha. I am trying to understand all this and im sure it will catch on in time, but perhaps someone cnan explain to me whens a good time for me to put my air lock on my fermenter? I understand some people just throw it on the...

How do you know when to add an airlock to your fermenter? I have heard different things about this before and honestly iv been just kinda been winging it for now. But I did just make a big expensive batch of clover honey mead and now I feel I Should have some more information on how to do...

Cool! We used the same stuff. i had this organic dutch process cocoa powder sitting in my cupboard forever so it was the easiest to reach for. Dutch process is technically processed but IMHO its the least processed types of chocolate out there. I actually added the chocolate to a small test...

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hmm i watched the vid again but i dont see. can you clarify what you mean , i do not see a yeast cake. i was thinkin some more bout all this and you would think it may actually be cleaner to brew outdoors like they are. you got lots of fresh open airspace to keep things clean. as you may...

you do open fermentaions? i thought that near the end of fermentation the yeast go from liking oxygen to hating it. also called aerobic and anerobic. thats what i learnt about wine making, or is beer different?

maybe they dont all use wild yeast, maybe they use packaged yeast.

just doing an update , i believe i already mentioned in my other post that the metal taste is now gone. i did say i would try some beers out of glasses from dishwasher and i did just that. i tried glasses from cupboard and even freshly washed glasses from dishwasher. and they tasted just fine...

i found this video awhile ago and found it interesting. its good to see things from another point of view. this video features bannana brewing in africa! i find it cool how relaxed they are with their procedures and their brewing beer which is generally lower alcohol, which means it would...

this turned into a great chocolate discussion. ! its great to see all your ways of doing things. iv been recently loving bentonite and have been using it in my wine and now my beer too. i dont use it in beer for clarity but more so for the heat stabilization, so my beer doesnt turn into a...

sorry i cant find it. i dont remember if i read that on a beer forum or just google. but i just was plowing through the internet info and came across that. i think it may just be the dishwasher water and soap combination, not sure. but for the sake of experimentation i will try a beer from...

Im going to do an update here as iv actually found some new results from my beer. I seen someone posting in another thread about metal tastes in beer and how it can come from residue on your drinking glass. This is interesting and perhaps its exactly why I was having problems with the beers i...

So i can get more wort in the fermenter :) bentonite is great at calming down home made brew, I started using it in wine and moved it over to the beer. Adding bentonite has been working like a charm for me so far. yes its been carbonating for 3 weeks so far.

Thanks for the additional considerations , but Iv already thought about those and I doubt any of those are the problem. I use RO water , i iodophored my caps and my extract from the can is from a trusted LHBS.

its a coopers real ale prehopped extract kit which comes in a can and if comes with a gold yeast packet that says coopers on it. this last batch i fermented in mg basement which has ambient temp of 63f. but with the fermentation maybe it was like 68f. also i added bentonite to this batch of...