coopers stout tips please

[chopperswookie]

btw i've just poured off half a pint of the coopers stout i did with the can of dark malt extract! 5hite alight! best one i have ever done! liquid velvet! someone please take it away from me and give it bakc to me next tuesday, paddys day!!

[bigbob]

just tried my first coopers stout and it's definitely a bit 'green'. been in the barrel about a week and a half. week in the warm, few days in the cold. primed with the 180 grams of sugar (thought it seemed a bit high but there we go) and i now have a fairly still, but definitely slightly carbed beer. very dark, complex and roasty. brilliant. going to leave it to sit for another week and get fully involved then.

[bigbob]

just had another look after losing pressure after 2 small glasses and my o ring was squiff, so reprime and another week or so of waiting for me

[craigjoneswales]

put my first coopers stout on last night with a kilo of med dsm and 500g of muscovade sugar

i put the FV in a black bag as recommended on here by someone. Good job too looked at it this morning and the lid was completely off, banged it back on with a small gap in the lid 10 mins later the whole lid was off again.

Think i am gonna have to adopt the chair and whip discipline process as also previously mentioned on here.

Happy Drinking.

[kfm]

ditch's stout dispensed with adm's four shades of stout advice - n2/co2 mix. sorry not much of a photographer but close up tries to show the cascade. used T58 yeast, 900g of dark malt extract and 100g of demerara. It was in the FV for 10 days then racked to corny and gassed up during cold spell in jan. The universal enthusiasm for this pint is acknowledged - it is top drawer. sorry .... it WAS top drawer.

still have a way to go to get the dispense right - think that serving under higher pressure at colder temp might help but welcome advice from anyone who has it coming out creamier

[brysie]

someone please take it away from me and give it bakc to me next tuesday, paddys day!!

i`ll look after it for you choppers`

[FlourPower]

Hmm I tried a pint of Cooper's Stout that one of my brewing Paduans had brewed and it tasted like fizzy water. However I have always been amazed how bad a pint he could make in those first few kit brews. I may have to give this a go. DSM and a dark priming sugar, with a reduced length seems the way I'd go from comments.

May have to make it in another brew Paduan's house though or SWMBO might get testy.

[brysie]

flowerpower you really owe it to yourself stick to ditch`s commandments and do your first one with mdsm.

then and only then can you see what all the fuss is about. if you feel the need to experiment after that then so be it.

[THE EMBALMER]

cheers happy St.Patrick's day ,with a pint of australian stout brewed in deepest yorkshire!! and bloody nice is it is too .did mine about half and half medium and dark spray malt.
the dark ale is good aswell but i reckon this stout will have to be drunk first ,at least give it plenty time to mature.

had a thought "tother day has any one used medium or even dark malt with a lager kit??

thinking bernard czech dark lager thoughts here
any way enough of this one finger? 2 handed typing ive got stout to drink cheers all and happy saints day over the water, at least you can celebrate your saints day without being called racist hey ho

[Ditch]

I've not long been in from the town, Glyn. I don't know where so many people emerge from!

I guess, like me, they just Have to turn out. I was sure to wear my Shamrock patterned dicklo. It was noted, of course Always gratifying.

Had four pints! (I 'Never' stop for more than one or, very occasionally, two). Only, between my two 'locals', the craic and conversation was just too good to walk away from.

Now I'm home and bang at it again. Wonder what time I'll wake up, in this chair, tomorrow!

[KevP]

Fair play Ditch me ol' mate, it had to be done

[Ditch]

Christ, Kev; It was done, alright! Don't even remember when I woke up ~ in this chair. But, I never even got round to the Jameson!

Bright as a new pin today though. And what a beautiful day it is too! Thoughts of what to do about my Coopers Stout as the temperatures rise now .....

[chopperswookie]

i'm having a few paddys day "boxing day" coopers stouts. i really do recommend doing it with a tin of dark malt extract. it tastes really licoricey and quite bitter. its not as "chocolately" as my last batch i did with 500g dark spraymalt and 500g brewing sugar.

[jmcc1889]

Hi again

i have kegged the stout today and primed it with 80g of Demera Sugar i must admit it smelled good and from the sample i tasted wasn't half bad. i will condition it for a week under the stairs before moving it to the garage. i noticed a real difference in the more active fermentation activity compared to the previous Woodfordes kits i have used. I was cleaning out the FV with the intention of storing away but then decided to put a Coopers Dark Ale on instead! It could be a warm dry spring

John

[Mogwyth]

Now that's what I call a head only the lid holding it in after 18 hrs.

Coopers Stout plus 500gms med spray malt and 500dark spray malt.

The tin contents smelt fantastic can't wait for this to be "done"