Jim's Beer Kit

In my experience it will slide down to the bottom soon after being put upright

I would have replied, since I looked at the post a few times, but have no idea. I'm only in theory stage of my all grain brewing. Hopefully ill build a boiler in a few weeks

SamT wrote:You do realise that the dried yeast in the Coopers kits is bakers yeast, right?

Not exactly what I'd advise using.

Any evidence to back that up?

i thought that too, i checked the temperature with two thermometers, and i checked the hydrometer in 20C RO water where it was reading 1.000 so i guess 10.70 is definitely the OG. Ace, i was just worried the yeast wouldnt do well in that high an OG and result in wasted beer. i'm not worried about th...

23. i'm wondering if there may be room to add some water and take it to 25, see if i can lower the SG a little.

i just pitched the yeast, i can see this one taking a while. OG 1.070. maybe i shouldn't have put the jar of LME in as well. i guess it won't be a session beer anyway

If nobody else has given it a go, I might as well.
I'll use the yeast from the euro lager as that's a lager yeast, and the other is an ale yeast. I've got a jar of h&b malt extract here too, so I'll bung that in for good measure.
Hopefully it makes a reasonable lager.

I've got some free time and fancy getting a brew on. As i'm mostly packed for moving house, I can't locate my cans of LME, only the cans containing cooopers aussie lager and coopers euro lager. I know combining kits is possible, and can result in a very drinkable beer. does making these two cans as ...

as I've just done exactly this today I'll tell you how i did it I bought an ATC800+ from ebay and a box large enough to hold it from maplin. There are ready made controllers if you're not sure of how to wire things the ATC800 and a tube heater is all you need to heat and cool (other than the fridge)...

I decided, since I can't brew at the moment for various reasons, and I had a long weekend, it was time i made a brew fridge. So, a quick look on ebay later, I had an ATC800+ controller, and after a quick look on gumtree i had a functional fridge. My afternoon resulted in a shiny upgrade to my brewin...

i'm not brewing anything for various reasons. I wish i'd been more organised and gotten more brews on earlier in the year, i'm running out and I won't be able to brew again for about 6 - 8 weeks. no room, and most of my stuff is packed as i was supposed to move house last weekend but am now moving a...

Coopers Australian pale ale goes down a treat with every lager drinker I know. One friend started brewing his own purely for the apa.

I'm brewing about 18 and its spewing. It may spew more at higher temperature though. And this was brewed to under 20l in a 25l bin. If I make it again it'll be in a 33l bin

it's spewing. not badly but it is spewing. it's in a bucket now, so it's safe, but meh. maybe i should leave my mark on this house before i leave

the krausen is almost to the lid. and i short brewed it to just under 20l. i think i may just move it into a bucket like the pic above...
no sign of life from either cider yet though.