Coopers English Bitter

[edwardss]

Hi guys, this is only my second brew, never brewed before so i'm pretty new to this.

My recipe was the can plus 1kg Mutons kit enhancer, a 454g jar of honey and 100g of unrefined brown sugar, hopefully it will turn out lovely :pray:

The og is just below 1.050, expecting it to end around 1.010 if that sounds about right?

I plan to keg it after fermentation and was wondering how you'd go about priming the keg and what with? I would like to fit the beers style, aiming for pretty low carbonation with a decent head.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[anthonyUK]

For priming, mix approx. 85g of sugar/DME with just enough hot water to dissolve it and put this in your barrel just before you transfer from the FV. Leave this in the warm for a week and you should have enough CO2 for light carbonation.
Quite a nice kit the English bitter after a few weeks conditioning.

 

[edwardss]

Thanks man, how does priming with demerara sugar sound?

Also how long did you leave it before it became a decent beer?

 

[anthonyUK]

Thanks man, how does priming with demerara sugar sound?

It sounds good. Better than standard sugar but there could be slightly less carbonation.
I forgot to add any sugar and it is still fine albeit close to completely flat

Also how long did you leave it before it became a decent beer?

It has been in the bottle about 4 weeks and has vastly improved in that time.
I would have preferred this in a keg but they were all full.

 

[edwardss]

Thanks for the advice, really appreciated.

Ill go ahead and prime with 85g of demerara and hope for the best :thumb:

 

[edwardss]

For anyone interested - I barreled my bitter earlier with 90g of demerara after 8 days in the fv and it already tastes great! Better than many bitters i've had and it can only get better.

The fg was 1002 so is around 6%, a little higher than i planned but i'm not complaining .

So far i cannot recommend this kit enough and will definitely be doing again!

Cheers :