All sounds pretty good to me, mate. And
isn't the malt lovely?! Sit and spoon it straight out of the bag, couldn't ye?
Ten days or 'a steady FG' ? Entirely up to you, really. Though ten days is probably the purists favourite. It
will give the bits and pieces that bit longer to sink, thus ensuring ye running off that bit clearer a beer. And, incidentally, I find Coopers Stout leaves a nice, solid kind of gunk at the bottom of the FV. So, once it's settled down there, it really does tend to stay there. Assuming ye going to let it out through the tap, that is?
I wonder though, as ye going to bottle it? I've read of these Bottling Sticks. But I didn't retain how they operate as I never bottle beers. Either way, I'm sure ye'll do fine.
Not sure what
bottled Coopers Stout will taste like. I, personally speaking, don't like bottled beers. I drink them, in the absence of my preference. But, I don't ever choose them. I guess, if ye like ye beer out of bottles? Ye'll probably like Coopers Stout that way.
Oh, alright. I give in. What I'm
Really trying to
avoid saying is; WTF are ye playing at?!
Bottling Coopers Stout?! FFS!
There. Said it. I feel better now
go stout go!! mine has managed(just) to stay in the fv but i purchased a larger one from hop & grape last week but its up top stroking the lid!! there is a bubbler in just because the hole was there but i have cracked the lid off a bit other wise i reckon it would be like krackatowa through the little bubblers exit hole 
this batch i am doing now i might stick a bit in a few bottles and try and hide for a few months to see what it will be like leaving it to mature that long.my first batch is nearly gone and tastes amazing still getting different smells and tastes smell very chocolately and has a nice kick yo it now.
