How to Brew BEER for Beginners? Coopers Extract Brewing With a TWIST!

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@gavinbuckett260 2 жыл бұрын

Nice work boys, very similar to my kit days. I’m an All Grain brewer these days but back in my extract life I always used the Pale Ale kit, malt & dextrose mix, steeped some hops (galaxy) & grain, with US-05 yeast,made a pretty decent beer. So any newbies out there these boys are pretty much on the money with this, it’s a tasty, hoppy beer, can’t go wrong really, cheers.

@flyingwombattv 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers dude! Yeah been a good while since we’ve done extract but a great way to jump into brewing for the first time

@brettwarne1926 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the Video, I wish I had this when I started, my first beers were terrible, but you pretended they were OK, this will help with the anxiety new brewers have, 5 stars.

@flyingwombattv 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate! Yeah exactly right, always helps to have a guide on those first couple beers when you’re first jumping into brewing

@iain_settree Ай бұрын

Love the video. What grain additions would you recommend for an XPA and a Pacific ale ?

@flyingwombattv Ай бұрын

I’d probably use some wheat and light crystal for an XPA, and similar for a pacific ale. The difference would be the yeasts and the hops. A lot more in the xpa than the pacific. We do have an XPA brewday here that may help you kzbin.info/www/bejne/iafTnYqLd5eakK8

@markluxton3402 Ай бұрын

I have a Coopers Dark Ale on order. The online store had a link suggestion to a suitable light liquid malt to go with it. I ordered both. Since this is not a "kit", I don't know as yet what hops will go nicely. I haven't made beer for 30+ years, but I found that all malt was the way to go. Sugar just seemed to strip out flavor, adding alcohol though. I'm not expert, not yet ;-) ,but some of the beers I made long ago were fabulous; better than local store bought. I made a few that I will try again, like the Australian Stout, Danish Pilsner, Brown ale, English Bitter. All were smother, I found, by being all malt brews. The store I shopped at, way back then, had a very knowledgeable manager. He helped me pick out hops and malts to go with my tastes. I didn't like my English Bitter. Too bitter for me, even after much ageing. I learned, I prefer the flavor of hops more than the bitterness they add, so I always hopped late in the boil. Still, that English Bitter, people actually like that lol No rush on getting good hops for my coming Cooper's Dark Ale all malt brew. I have a partial grain Porter, complete kit to brew first. I have some prep work to do yet, but I am excited to do some more cooking :-)

@flyingwombattv Ай бұрын

Brilliant mate welcome back to the land of brewing! Yeah I would say traditional noble hops are a safe bet. Things like spalt spatler, or even more modern variety’s like northern brewer, fuggles or centennial would all be brilliant combos

@markluxton3402 Ай бұрын

@@flyingwombattv Thanks, I'll look for those hops. I recall seeing Noble mentioned a lot and in stock.

@kevo6942 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty good info for doing your first kit brew in this video. After years of experimenting and perfecting, i would definitely use one of the readily available sugar blends ie. dextrose, light malt etc. As also stated as an option in the video, US05 yeast would have probably got rid of that 'chemical ' taste you stated. It's amazing the difference a quality yeast makes to a brew. Definitely worth the few extra dollars. Kits are great for people that don't have the time to spend on brewing all grains and are a very affordable option and often as good or better than some of the mainstream options. ✌

@flyingwombattv 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah absolutely, you can definitely make some great beers with kits and quality ingredients (like better yeast!) and as you said, not just for beginners but also people that just don’t have the time for a 5 hours brewday!

@NoMusiciansInMusicAnymore 2 жыл бұрын

This was a really good video for beginners, I think I would have gone from this to starting a yeast bank if I had have known how easy it was and how much difference using a good yeast over the packets under the tin makes, especially in Australian summers! If you guys muck up enough to do a tasting of the "wrong beer flavours" I think that could be interesting, i experiment a lot and don't often repeat the same brew steps, even back in the days of using the cordial tins and dextrose, I know thing's like Diacetyl and oxidation are bad but I am not sure I have tasted them or if the beer I made was just bad.

@flyingwombattv 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah true that’s definitely a video we want to do soon, all about “off flavours” and how they are caused and what to do to prevent them

@markluxton3402 Ай бұрын

I had to pause because I spotted an idea. Looking at your ferment jug, it seems there is not a lot of space inside the jug below the tap outlet. If so, I suggest putting a stick under the front of your jug during fermentation, so the yeast loads up more to the back; away from the tap. Then when you get near the last of your brew, you remove the stick and slowly set it down; eventually, maybe tipping your jug forward. Maybe using a stick will help to keep the sediment away from the tap?

@flyingwombattv Ай бұрын

Yeah we probably could have, but honestly the yeast cake settled down the bottom pretty compactly so it wasn’t too much of an issue when bottling. But for beers with more trub at the bottom the stick trick is definitely a good call!

@jamdiversified9698 9 ай бұрын

Great vid! What is the source of your water? If you use tap water how do you remove the chloramine? Or do you leave it?

@flyingwombattv 9 ай бұрын

You could use RO, distilled or spring etc. but tbh for the home brew scale I’ve never noticed too much of an issue with tap water. However you can evaporate most of it off by pouring it the night before and letting it dissipate over night, the. Reboil the water the next day to sterilise the water again

@jamdiversified9698 9 ай бұрын

@@flyingwombattv Cheers. I'll give it a shot. See what happens hey!