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I live in Australia. I keep my beer in the garage / shed. It gets hot in there. Very hot. I've never had any problems storing beer. I have brew fridges. I find once it's fermented at the correct temperature it's fine. I'm currently drinking a stout that has been through 5 summers in the garage...

I put one of these 10 days or so ago. Coopers Cerveza 500 grams LDME 250 grams Dextrose 250 grams Maltodextrin 50 Grams Lemon Drop Dry Enzyme Reused Morgan's Lager Yeast I've never used Dry Enzyme in a beer before. I think it's finished fermenting......

It was 25 C sat in our garden today. The weather is great.... for last day of winter. Spring tomorrow.

They're not bad kits, but you really do have to replace the yeast. The yeast they supply is a generic ale yeast. It's the same in all the kits. (Morgans rep told me this) I don't mind swapping out the yeasts as I save the yeast and re use it 3 or 4 times. I make the Frontier IPA, after Coopers...

I'm 99% certain that 8g of dextrose per litre, is the same as using two Coopers carbonation drops in a 740ml pet bottle, which they recommend. So there would be quite a lot of people priming at that rate. I don't mind it for Lagers. Maybe a tad too much for Ales.

Yeah, that's OK. I probably won't, but hey ho, that's just me. To be honest I thought all the recipes on the Coopers site would say to steep grain like I suggested. I hadn't seen that one. I have no idea what difference it would make.

I've only steeped Choc Malt for 24 hours like it says in that recipe. And I only did that once. I've never done it with light crystal. I usually steep the grain in 70C water for 30-40 minutes. Remove the grain & boil the liquid for 10 minutes. As I said I only did it the once with Choc Malt...

.... and it's in a cider glass.

I don't think it's cardboard box so much as the type colour / vignette effect. Coopers went the cardboardy look too when they released their kits like this a while ago. They avoided the awful type though.

I had a coopers crown lager when I got in from a particularly bad day at work. I thought I wouldn't mind a Cooper Imperial Russian Stout after. Now on my second. It's 10% ABV, so the day is beginning to not seem too bad after all. For anyone not familiar with the recipe. 1 × Stout (1.7kg) 1 ×...

The only time I've used Morgans yeast I used two packets. And that for for a pale ale. Didn't turn out too bad, but I usually use 04 yeast for that style. If I were you I'd put in one of the Morgans kit yeasts and the spare Coopers one you have that should do it.} When I make toucan stouts I...

Yes, as already explained by Random Badger. I generally only do stouts that way. I've never felt inclined to do Lagers. And to be honest watching that video hasn't changed my mind. Oh yeah I've make a trican too. Coopers Imperial Russian Stout. There's a thread about it on here somewhere. Glad...

That should be good. I usually make the toucans with Coopers, but have used the Morgans. Just as good. I steep 250 grams of Choc Malt in mine too.

I'll watch it later. I vaguely remember in my earlier 20's having the odd can of Red Stripe or maybe a Carlsberg strong lager. Although looking up Red Stripe now it's only 4.7% Doesn't really interest me to be honest, but each to their own. The toucan stouts are good though. I have used Morgans...

The Coopers kit yeast is very good. I find it always drops a couple of points more than if I use a saflager yeast. 1052 - 1008 in 48 hours, that's a real quick ferment. I'm sure if I say most people leave the brew in the fermenter for 2 weeks someone will come on say otherwise. But if I were you...

We have a few different kits available here in Australia but I stick mainly to Coopers & Morgans. And I pimp both of them, 99% of the time. The only time I don't is if I'm running low on stock and need something quick. The only other type of beer I've made is a Muntons Yorkshire Bitter. I pimped...

The yeast that comes with the kits is just a generic ale yeast. The Morgans rep told me this a few weeks ago. I've had mixed results with Morgans, but generally OK. I have only used the kit yeast once. This was when I was going a quick beer to restock. And for that one I used tow kit yeasts...

What I'd do is Steep 250 grams of the grain in 2 litres of water @70-75C for 30-40 minutes. I usually put the grain in a hop bag. Remove the grain. Boil the liquid for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add half the hops and leave for 30-40 minutes. Add that to your FV with the kit & yeast. Add...

Went to work this morning. Lazy afternoon. Then off to the football with 10,000 other people. It's our remembrance day tomorrow so they played the last post & the national anthem. As it was finishing they cut to a shot of the crowd. Me & my mate. If only they'd known they were showing a couple...

I haven't made that one. After what I thought were quite reasonable goes at Morgans kits I've had a couple of disasters. Including a Blue Mountains Lager that was terrible. So bad I contacted Morgans. I thought their customer service wasn't that great. Eventually I got put onto the sales rep who...