Coopers Mexican - 3rd kit underway - new pics added

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ChrisG

Coopers Mexican - 3rd kit underway - new pics added

Post by ChrisG » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:39 pm

Last night I got my 3rd kit started.

Gonna be a bit different this one and I have put it under the stairs as its a lot cooler.

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I have heard a lot of good things about this one from other post on the site so I'm looking forward to it.

btw - managed to get myself around 50 brown bottles for free from a restaurant, best thing is they are the same bottles my home brew shop sell for 70p each!!
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ChrisG

Post by ChrisG » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:21 pm

24 hours later and looks like this.

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ChrisG

Post by ChrisG » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:19 pm

What type of spray malt would you use? a light one I take it?
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evilsoc

Post by evilsoc » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:54 am

Hopefully it'll taste nothing like Corona ;)
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fivetide

Post by fivetide » Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:56 pm

evilsoc wrote:Hopefully it'll taste nothing like Corona ;)
Small clear bottles is just asking for trouble in a country as sunshiney as Mexico. Probably. :D
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ChrisG

Post by ChrisG » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:37 pm

Bit of an update with this one.

Reading now of 1020.

I have read that lagers can give off an egg smell which this one does....is this ok ?

A lot of activity though.

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fivetide

Post by fivetide » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:10 am

I'm no lager expert but the only brew I've done with a lager yeast was pretty smelly, and it's very early days - sure it'll do fine.
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ChrisG

Post by ChrisG » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:14 am

Since the brew is under the staircupboard (which opens to the livingroom) my wife thought she could smell something funny.

May be I should have put it out in the garage :)
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fivetide

Post by fivetide » Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:59 am

I've brewed quite a few kits now, and my wife quite likes the malt smell while making them up and has never moaned during fermentation. Until I did that US one with lager yeast and she hated it and made yuck noises for about four days.
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ChrisG

Post by ChrisG » Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:46 am

fivetide wrote:I've brewed quite a few kits now, and my wife quite likes the malt smell while making them up and has never moaned during fermentation. Until I did that US one with lager yeast and she hated it and made yuck noises for about four days.
Hehe yeah kinda sounds like mine ;)
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ChrisG

Post by ChrisG » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:51 pm

Well my 3rd kit seems to have been a great success.

Holding a reading of 1008 for 3 days now so thought it best to get it bottled while I can (baby due any day now).

Managed to get around 45 bottles, so I'm pretty happy with it.

Pregnant wife was a great help too, priming bottles and fixing labels for me, took around 2 hours to complete.

Here are some photos.

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.....and the collection so far under the stairs. The Scottish Heavy is still out in the garage along with some of the barrels IPA

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:) :) :) :)
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Post by StrangeBrew » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:00 am

Good going Chris, building up a nice little stock there!

Whats next?
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Post by ChrisG » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:05 am

StrangeBrew wrote: Whats next?
If I have to go to work tomorrow (due to baby not arriving yet) I was going to take a trip to my Home Brew shop and may be get the Muntons Nut Brown Ale kit.

Really fancy trying that one but couldn't find much about it on this site.

Sounds good though.
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Post by StrangeBrew » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:16 am

Nut Brown Ale

Looks interesting, keep us up to date if you do this one.

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