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BIGW - Coopers DIY Home Brewing Kit $80 in Store. Usual Price $95

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LTraveller on 17/12/2013 - 09:35 bigw.com.au (882 clicks)
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Good price for a Coopers Home Brew Kit. They also have the brew mix cans on special - $10 for the ginger beer, $11 for the standard mixes and $13 for the International series. No specials on the fermentables such as malt and brewing sugars.

Not available online or click and collect, so I see no way of applying the current $10 discount for BIGW.

From BIGW description:
Coopers micro brew kits comprise a fermenter, 30 x 740ml PET bottles, a can of concentrate and everything else required to produce 23 litres of great tasting beer, including an instruction booklet and a DVD.

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  • mskeggs on 17/12/2013 - 09:47
    +3

    All Ozb beer drinkers should be home brewers. It just makes sense.
    Remember:
    - don't skimp on the fermentables (buy the brew enhancer packs at the very least, not table sugar)
    - don't rush it. I know it says 21 days, but your beer will be twice as good after 30-45 days
    - try and keep things clean/sterile, especially the fermenter. A dirty bottle ruins one beer, a dirty barrel ruins 30.

    • jaybo on 17/12/2013 - 09:58
      +2

      there's probably a home brew thread somewhere around here but here's a few great tips to go along with it…
      - you can get some wonderful results by getting some proper malt from a home brew shop rather than the coopers brew enhancer packs
      - apple cider? buy cheap apple juice (without preservatives), 500gm of lactose (to sweeten without fermenting) and a pack of good live cider yeast from a home brew shop.
      - if you're going to bottle, look up how to bulk prime. the single greatest thing to learn in homebrewing after you work your way through the kit instructions the first time :)

      edit: oh and for those of you interested in starting out home brewing - this kit is absolutely perfect. it is a genuinely good way to get all the little bits you need to get you started.

      • mskeggs on 17/12/2013 - 10:03

        Agree with all jaybo's comments.

        In true Ozb style, I can also recommend the "toucan" as a cheap way to get quality fermentables.
        Buy up the cheap no-name concentrate kits and use them along with your preferred brew kit. Makes a lovely fullbodied beer, along the lines of a James Squires Amber for about $20 per 30 long necks, with zero fuss.

    • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 17/12/2013 - 10:49
      +1

      These fermenters are great. Tap is easy to take apart and clean. Fermenter has heaps of height for krausen.

      Starting out definitely use 1-1.5 kg of dry malt extract with their kit cans, and use a decent yeast from a homebrew shop (US-05 is an easy dry yeast and very versatile)

      Also, you can buy it only from Coopers here:
      https://store.coopers.com.au/shop/product/DBK676/
      Use coupon 'BEERKIT'
      and get it home delivered for 99c more ($80.99). Save petrol and time.

  • muncan on 17/12/2013 - 09:48
    +1

    Beer

  • [Deactivated] on 17/12/2013 - 10:32

    being OzB, if you really want a kit:

    bucket - 9 dollars
    screw tap - 50 cents
    thermometer strip sticker - 2 dollars
    airlock / grommet - 4 dollars

    you could use 2 or 3 Litre PET bottles to rack into, makes bottling easier and when you wanna drink just decant into a big chilled jug

    • Traveller on 17/12/2013 - 10:44

      Make sure that you get a food grade bucket.

      Also don't forget the extra items the Coopers kit comes with: specific gravity measuring device, brew can, carbonation drops or brewing sugar for bottling and brew enhancer/fermentation sugars. And I do like having the bottles (although I use glass long-necks).

  • alex27 on 17/12/2013 - 12:16
    +1

    I had two brew with this kit, all of them tast like beer mix with apple juice, almost undrinkable. I keep it in dark and temperature around 20C, all follow the instruction, still can not get better result. and all of them had some white deposit.

    • mskeggs on 17/12/2013 - 12:35
      +1

      The white deposit is yeast, it is necessary and useful.
      Did you leave it long enough after you bottled it? Trying it too early can lead to sub-par results.
      Also, as a general rule, it is much easier to get good results with darker beers, if you like them.
      So maybe try a stout or something?
      It may be the Cooper's Lager you don't particularly like. I find 'draught' cans better (confusingly, it's also a lager style).
      Your local brew shop will have many alternatives, and a recipe sheet to "clone" popular commercial beers.

      I like my homebrew, and I rate it as preferable to a commercial macro-brew (e.g. VB, Tooheys) but nowhere near as nice as a Little Creatures or similar boutique brew.
      Cost wise, it is very cheap.
      I have two fermenters and basically brew two or three double batches in summer to produce 120-180ish long necks, that does me through till the next summer.

      • alex27 on 17/12/2013 - 13:04

        Thanks mate, the first I had is canadian canadian blonde, the the last one is larger, they tast almost same, but the larger tast much lighter than the blonde. I will leave them for longer next time, and try to get some help from local brew shop. is hard to find good beer with recenable price now.

        • NosDan on 17/12/2013 - 14:58

          mix with apple juice

          you didnt use normal table sugar did you? you also want to leave it in the bottle to age for at least 3 months but the longer the better up to about 2 or 3 years.

  • Miami Mall Alien on 17/12/2013 - 14:46
    +1

    Everything wrong with home brewed beer (6:53): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=owC…

    • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 17/12/2013 - 20:24
      +1

      Haha, maybe a kit beer with only sugar, kit yeast, poor sanitation and no temp control, but try a proper all grain homebrew and it far exceeds all the megaswill out there :)

  • Ryanemo on 21/12/2013 - 14:17

    Just saw Coopers Original Series for $10 a can at Woolworths Beenleigh. Lager, Real Ale, Draught and Dark Ale.

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