Friary's second brew - Coopers Stout

[Friary]

That'll be safe to bottle at that, it won't drop much further.

I recon you might be right. I'll check the gravity tonight and see...

I've still got some Coopers Carbonation drops left over from the starter kit I get, which recons I should use I drop for 375ml bottles and 2 for 750ml. I'm using standard brown bottles, which are 500ml, but I recon because this is a stout I'll probably only need to put one drop per bottle in. Anyone else any thoughts on this?

[EoinMag]

That'll be safe to bottle at that, it won't drop much further.

I recon you might be right. I'll check the gravity tonight and see...

I've still got some Coopers Carbonation drops left over from the starter kit I get, which recons I should use I drop for 375ml bottles and 2 for 750ml. I'm using standard brown bottles, which are 500ml, but I recon because this is a stout I'll probably only need to put one drop per bottle in. Anyone else any thoughts on this?

I've never used those drops I carbonate these days with spraymalt. I'd say one per bottle would do the job.

[barl_fire]

I used one per 500ml bottle for my London Porter and it was the perfect amount of carbonation for that sort of brew, I think 1 and 1/2 would have been too much. I used the equivalent of 1 and 1/2 to prime my Black Rock Brown Ale and that was more suited to that kind of drink.

I'd stick with one for a stout.

[Friary]

keeps it nice and easy. Cheers.

[cbucket]

3 month's conditioned Ditch's Stout, 1/2 gone.

[Friary]

ooooo, that looks pretty!

After another two readings that gravity hadn't budged, so it was bottled last night with an FG of 1010. Using Coopers alcohol content equation I recon this is about 4.5%. More importantly even before bottling tasted pretty good, muchos betteros than brew number 1.

The bottles are in the warm until sunday, when I'll stick them in the garage with my first brew...

[dedken]

'Tested' mine last night - Tasted really good after just 1 week in the bottle. Already it's nearly as good as the Black Pearl I did last time. Not sure if this one is going to make it to my standard 6 weeks.... I begin to see where Ditch is coming from.

[Friary]

Bottles went out to the garage yesterday for conditioning alongside brew number one. 90 bottles of beer on a shelf is a nice site! Will crack one open in a week to if mine is as good as dedken's.

[scottmoss]

Bottles went out to the garage yesterday for conditioning alongside brew number one. 90 bottles of beer on a shelf is a nice site! Will crack one open in a week to if mine is as good as dedken's.

Hope they all taste great for you when you crack them open! How do you find the Coopers English Bitter?? I've got one in the cupboard waiting for me to start.

[Friary]

Hope they all taste great for you when you crack them open! How do you find the Coopers English Bitter?? I've got one in the cupboard waiting for me to start.

Cheers. Tomorrow is week 6 of conditioning for the Coopers English Bitter, so will post an update after another sampling. From what I've tasted I recon it's a decent kit, just wished I'd used dry malt instead of brewing sugar. Be interested to hear how your's turns out.

[Friary]

Tried a bottle last night, after a week conditioning and it's already very drinkable! I'm looking forward to trying another in a week or so to see how it comes on...

Just a thought, should I have primed this with dry malt or a brown-type sugar? Would this have made any difference

[scottmoss]

I don't think it would make any difference at all. Use plain old white sugar.