Coopers Brewery DIY Beer Kit
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Coopers Brew ProductsBrand: MakeBeer.net
Product features:
- Cooper's New! DIY Beer Kit - Everything you need to brew 6 gallons of beer per batch.
- From first time beginners to the most seasoned home brewer, this beer brewing kit is the answer.
- Don't be fooled by cheap imitations! Cooper's beer brewing kit is fast, easy and the world's best selling home beer making kit.
- Includes instructional DVD-ROM and step by step directions, PET bottles and all the ingredients for your first batch.
- Add on one of our many beer kits to brew your favorite style of beer including Pale Ale, Blonde, Lager, Draught, Dark Ale, Stout, IPA and Wheat style beers.
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Coopers Brewery DIY Beer Kit
Customer Review: Everything you need to catch the homebrew bug
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm about a month into my ownership of this kit and I am very happy with it so far. My fourth batch is fermenting now, I've been actively fermenting almost since the day I received it from Amazon/Makebeer.net.
Since receiving the kit, I've brewed the Coopers Australian Lager Beer Kit that came with the kit, a Complete Coopers Brewery Stout Beer Kit Package, and a Complete Coopers Brewery Mexican Cerveza Beer Kit Package. In the fermenter now is the Complete Coopers Brewery English Bitter Beer Kit Package. I found the Australian Lager to be a bit "cidery" tasting, but my wife and friends said it was better than most of the beers they've ever tasted. The Stout is awesome -- deep, dark and rich flavor. The Cerveza is also good, a nice mild beer.
An earlier reviewer mentioned how difficult it is to get the lid off once you get it on tightly enough to seal - I agree. It is difficult to remove, though certainly not impossible. It has raised plastic tabs that can be leveraged along the with handle indentions to remove the lid without too terribly much trouble. That same review also mentioned the dispensing valve as a minor problem area. Again, he was correct. I'm not sure if it is the valve or the tapped threads in the fermenter, but a good seal of the valve does not require a super tight fit. Note that I said it seals well even without a tight fit. The fermenter does not leak at all. That's a very good thing. I've had no trouble keeping the valve in place when I needed to test the specific gravity of the beer of fill bottles. It twists a little, but not so much that it matters.
The good parts about this kit far outweigh the bad. For one, the lid on the fermenter is clear. That doesn't sound like much, but as a new brewer you will want to see what is happening (frequently in my case), and you can't do that with a white bucket and white lid as most basic starter kits include. In fact, I would say this is the best part of the kit. That may sound ridiculous, but imagine being a first time baker and not being able to peek into the oven to see if your cake was cooking - for up to seven days. I find the brewing process fascinating to watch.
Another great part of the kit is the included bottles. This kit includes enough to bottle your entire first batch, and they are large and very high quality PET (plastic) bottles. None of the kits that I've seen for sale at homebrew stores include any bottles. Beer in plastic bottles? Yes, and they work BETTER than glass bottles. Glass breaks, plastic does not. Glass bottles can explode if you put in too much priming sugar during bottling, plastic will just get harder to the touch. The brown plastic of the bottles also blocks most of the harmful light rays that can cause your beer to become skunky. They impart no flavor to the beer and are impermeable to gases escaping or entering. These bottles are the same type that are used to bottle most soda pop, except that they are brown and can hold around 24 ounces (750ml).
The kit also includes a nice long stirring spoon, an airlock, a hydrometer (to measure the specific gravity/potential alcohol), and a thermometer. Again, everything you need to brew your first batch of beer.
What will you need to supply? Chlorine bleach, or another sanitizing agent (such as C-Brite or StarSan), a pot large enough to boil about a gallon of water, and nearly six gallons of tap water. The rest is in the kit.
If you catch the homebrew bug like I did, you will need more bottles, a bottle capping device and bottle caps. Make sure you mention to your friends that you are now brewing your own beer! I did and within a few days I had a couple hundred bottles, a capper and even a gross of caps, all for free. I'm not usually one to talk about my hobbies, but the mere mention of home brewing and people are full of questions!
Description of Coopers Brewery DIY Beer Kit
The new and improved Coopers DIY Beer Kit includes everything needed to make 6 gallons of great tasting beer- a new patented fermenter that makes brewing even easier and quicker, an easy to read plastic hydrometer specifically made for beer, plus an Instructional DVD-ROM to answer all your brewing questions. This kit comes with everything you need to get started including the fermenter, lid, Krausen Collar, 30 740ml PET bottles, tap, bottler, brewers log and marker and a complete Australian Lager Package including the beer kit, Brew Enhancer 1, yeast and carbonation drops for easy bottling and carbonation. The PET bottles include a CO2 and oxygen barrier.Kitchen & Housewares
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