So I bought the Irish stout kit yesterday. Looking through the instructions is does not give any alcohol percentage starting or final gravity etc. is this a concern?
Which kit was it?
I've found some problems with the values for Coopers kits on BrewCalculus, although they normally come with those needed specifications (where kits come up with funny values such as too low a percentage, I just go with a generic LME or DME depending, although I've been using http://brewology101.com/ instead recently)