Thomas Coopers 1.7kg Home Brew Varieties - $14
Regular price - $23
Usually $18.40 on special so this is an excellent price.
The regular Coopers range is not currently on special.
Coopers DIY Beer Brew Kit - $89 (Save $30)
Awesome work BeerNerd.
Didn't realise how much range Big W had!! Normally just get the [$12.95 variety] at Woolies :P(https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/7526/coope…)
hmmm, I'm tempted to give this ago
Sorry for the uneducated question, but it says it makes 23 liters? Do you need to buy anything else on top of the $14 brew? Also what %alc does say, the pale ale give?
You'll need light dry malt, which Coopers also make or can be purchased from any home brew store.
Carbonation drops also, but this can be substituted with 6g sugar per 750mL bottle.
The Pale Ale is prob about 5% alcohol.
See here http://store.coopers.com.au/brewing-info/recipes.html for all the Coopers home brew recipes.
They each state the anticipated alc%.
Depending on the ingredients the costs can add up variably to $40-80 range in my experience, but when you're getting 23 litres of good beer, it's still great value.
So if I'm just starting out, maybe the $89 DIY Beer Brew Kit would be a good option? Or are there some unnecessary components in there?
That probably depends if you've already got bottles, I haven't used the lager that comes with the kit since I first got the kit.
I think 102010 over estimated the cost, it could be as little as $14 for these cans plus a $1 for sugar. I've never used plain sugar though.
These 1.5kg malt tins for $ 10.35 are good value (to do the sugar's job)
Free deliver over $100 now, briefly current.
https://store.coopers.com.au/brew-cans/malt-extract.html
The kits can be useful if you're starting out although you're probably better off going to a home brew store and buying the components separately.
Glass bottles would be recommended over plastic.
A true Oz bargainer would pick his gear up cheap or even free second hand.
There's always Brewers karking it, getting fit, getting nagged, getting liver diseased,
it's a long way to the froth if you wanna make a brew.
It can be very cheap indeed with stock recipes, however as you branch out a bit tracking down a few different hop and yeast varieties can add up, plus many recipes call from liquid malt extract which is about $15 per can.
I would certainly recommend starting with the DIY brew kit. I've been using mine for years and you can keep it simple or make things a bit more 'craft' if you like.
I'd recommend the plastic bottles myself. I found the glass ones didn't hold their seal well. The plastics have never let me down.
Are you capping glass bottles too hard or too soft? You should be able to get a good seal with crown seals.
That being said plastic is safer and much easier to use and would recommend it.
You can even use soft drink bottles if you're cool with drinking 1.25lt at a time and want to stay extra thrifty.
In my experience I had to be very careful using crown seals on the modern twist top bottles. Too much pressure and I'd chip the lip of the bottle, too little and it wouldn't seal properly.
On the other hand, bottles with a good solid lip were a joy to crown seal. my favourite are the Bundaberg ginger beer stubbies and the older CUB longnecks that I inherited from my father.
@The Magic Pudding: if staring out and trying to keep cost down ,
Use raw sugar , comes out pretty good.
You'll need 1kg sugar/dextrose or equivalent such as Brew Enhancer or Light Dry Malt as suggested above.
The alcohol percentage will vary depending on the amount of sugar/equivalent fermentable that you use.
1kg of sugar will produce beer with 4-5% abv.
the first time you make a batch, you like many others probably think "im gonna add so much sugar and make like a 11 percent beer to really knock your socks of" and you do…. and its absolutely awful, but still drinkable… kind of
then over time you refine and find a sweet spot. it starts off as a cheap hobby, it doesn't end up being a cheap one. just FYI.
You can do a 20lt homebrew for 20 bucks or 80 still using the coopers fermenter.
My love for making complicated ones and super simple ones are so even. But (profanity) bottling days.
They're $13 at my local Woolies!
Is that the Thomas Coopers range or just the normal Coopers range?
The thomas coopers range
I like the middle range Mexican/Canadian/Pale. When the cans and brew enhancer is on special you get 2 cartons of good beer for less than $20. I've got one of these Thomas Cooper Amber Ales brewing now so will be interesting to see if there is much difference to justify the extra $10 or so.
Thanks OP, I just picked up 12 cans. Awesome price.
Are you serious!!! That's a lot of beer man.
Don't forget to upvote.
Good price, nice find. I like beer.