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I am currently fermenting in this Cooper's (http://coopers.com.au/static/media/uploads/walls/.thumbnails/FermentingVessel34ltr-0x350.png) open fermenter. I think you cannot leave the beer stay there too long, since the risk of getting it oxidized increases after the fermentation is complete...

Dear fellow home brewers, This summer I tried a very simple recipe: 1.5 kg Munton's extract lager kit 2 kg of normal table sugar Lots of hops, both for bittering and then for dry hopping Batch size 23 l, OG: 1.048, FG: 1.000 Believe me, this beer was pretty good, although I know it is almost...

Dear colleagues, I am currently brewing a stout for x-mas. It has been in the primary for two weeks. I am thinking to transfer it to the secondary for three weeks. My question is this: Is there any problem in secondary fermenting it for so long in this Cooper's fermenting vessel...

I was wondering whether my Festival's Old Suffolk Strong Ale OG reading is veridical. Here is the recipe: 1 kg of Weyermann CARAFA Special type 1 800-1000 EBC steeped for 30 min 3 kg of Suffolk's LME 1 kg of Dextrose The manufacturer gives an abv approximation of 6%. There is no way this beer...

Brewing a wheat beer with the following recipe: 2 cans of Cooper's Wheat beer LME 700g of wheat flakes (steeped at 70c for half an hour) 500g of dextrose Quite a lot of Saaz hops, boiled for 75 and 15 min A couple of teaspoons of Irish Moss, added 15 min before the end of boiling the...

Brewing a cherry beer with the following recipe: About 4,5 pounds of fresh cherries 2 cans of St. Peters Ruby Red Ale LME Around 1 lbs of dextrose to get a good fermentation Some hop addition that came with the extract kit I chopped the cherries and removed the stones. I boiled them for about...

I have found the following recipe to be pretty good: Steeping grains 2 cans of LME Some DME A LOTS of hoops But I have a hard time of reaching a low FG (like 1.010 or lower). So, how to do to it? How to reach a low FG with basically a liquid malt extract kit?

Brewing a 15l DIPA batch with the following recipe: 2 cans of Cooper's Real Ale LOTS of hops, East Kent Golding and Fuggles, boiled for bitterness for 45min A little bit of Saaz, boiled for 0min (I am thinking to dry hop with it in the secondary, too) 2 Cooper's yeast packs with a 2-day yeast...

Brewing my fourth batch with the following recipe: 1kg Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner (3-4 EBC) grains 1 can of Cooper's Canadian Blonde LME 1 can of Munton's Pilsner LME 0.5kg of Munton's Brew Enhancer which consists of 50% of dextrose and 50% of DME 0.5kg of Extra Light Munton's DME Hops: East...

Brewing my second Cooper's batch - the first one was quite succesfull, but now I have some doubts concerning bottling with too much priming sugar. About 8 hours ago, I added 1.5 teaspoons of table sugar to a 0.5l glass bottle. Do you think I am running into a risk of bottle explosion? Last...