Coopers Lager - First Taste Test.

[Wort Went Wong]

Been bottled for 3 months now.
Smell – Yes, smells like lager.
Colour and Clarity - Very pale not like lager, slightly bronzed water colour. Crystal clear.
Taste - Has that typical home brew flavour which is sharp, dry, thin and has a distinctive unpleasant dry, tang flavour that I just can’t describe in detail. The only way I can describe the after taste is that it drops neutral.

In a nut shell - Terrible, but would suffice an alcoholic on a budget. If you want quality, get to the supermarket and buy beer that has been brewed in a proper brewery that has been established since the turn of time and brewed using high tech sophisticated equipment coupled with century’s of honing and tweaking to achieve perfection.

One man, a pan and few plastic buckets cannot produce high quality beers such as commercial breweries. That said, it's a hobby and people enjoy it.

Pete

 

[aneray]

Wort Went Wrong

Sorry to hear that you were dissapointed with your Coopers brew. Don't give up, Coopers can be a really good brew with a little tweaking. I make quite a lot of them and feedback I receive from friends who try my beers is usually pretty positive.

At the moment I'm drinking a Coopers Draught Lager and its great. I substituted sugar for light spray malt, short brewed to 32 pints and used a Saflager yeast. A while back I brewed a 9.9% Coopers Stout using two kits for forty pints with the addition of spray malts, coffee and black treacle. It was bloody wonderful, I wish I had made more.

Like I said, the kits are there to be tweaked. Think about what you want out of the kit and go for it.

Cheers Neil :thumb:

 

[stephent]

im loving my coopers brews at the moment. on my second batch of cerveza and european is almost ready (still drinking it though)

 

[Duncs]

Been bottled for 3 months now.
Smell – Yes, smells like lager.
Colour and Clarity - Very pale not like lager, slightly bronzed water colour. Crystal clear.
Taste - Has that typical home brew flavour which is sharp, dry, thin and has a distinctive unpleasant dry, tang flavour that I just can’t describe in detail. The only way I can describe the after taste is that it drops neutral.

In a nut shell - Terrible, but would suffice an alcoholic on a budget. If you want quality, get to the supermarket and buy beer that has been brewed in a proper brewery that has been established since the turn of time and brewed using high tech sophisticated equipment coupled with century’s of honing and tweaking to achieve perfection.

One man, a pan and few plastic buckets cannot produce high quality beers such as commercial breweries. That said, it's a hobby and people enjoy it.

Pete

Is this the coopers kit you did in this thread? if it is, it's no wonder it doesn't taste too good

 

[chiefstoker]

Funnily enough, a coopers lager is possibly going to be my next brew :lol:

So far, everything i have brewed has been very drinkable, and tbh when i have pub lagers/beers now they taste so lame

: CS

 

[QED]

Is this the coopers kit you did in this thread? if it is, it's no wonder it doesn't taste too good

:wha: Instructions?

 

[Mephistopholes]

My homebrew is the best beer i ever tasted.

:party:

 

[Duncs]

Is this the coopers kit you did in this thread? if it is, it's no wonder it doesn't taste too good

:wha: Instructions?

:wha: to get to the other thread? click on the word this, it's a link to it. :geek:

 

[Cussword]

: At the moment Coopers is my favourite Kit :drunk:

 

[rickthebrew]

i brewed a few coopers kits and was well happy with the results :hmm:

as for what one man with a few pans and buckets can brew try AG

 

[QED]

:wha: to get to the other thread? click on the word this, it's a link to it. :geek:

lol, I was more referring to the fact that it looks like instructions were not followed in the making of this lager :grin: