Cooper's Mexican Cerveza....?

[The Seer]

Any one tried this?

I've done Morgan's Cortes Cerveza, is this one similiar?

 

[trunky]

I have it on the go at the moment sat in a budget barrel awainting a free corney. I'll be able to day what the wife thinks but it's not going to get sampled for at least a month.

 

[aneray]

You beat me to it with the question. Bought the same kit today along with beer enhancer so look forward to any comments about the kit.

The only question I have is what temperature to brew it at. Coopers recommend 21 - 27 degrees, isn't that a bit too high.

Cheers Neil

 

[stephent]

i just got one to, going to start it on the weekend. Hopefully its going to be nice.

 

[rickthebrew]

I brewed one of these last year and it was pretty good - i used white sugar and upped it to around 1.4kg and then bottled with a good teaspoon of sugar, after 6weeks conditioning it was great with a wedge of lime - well carbonated and tasty, i find the coopers lagerkits like this one need a good time to condition - i found if you drank them to early they were a bit..........umm...eggy :? As for the brewing temp most lager kits are supplied with ale yeast hence the brewing temp - i always brew at around 18degrees c but a bit above or below will be fine with these! Hope this helps and happy brewing :drink:

 

[The Seer]

I brewed one of these last year and it was pretty good - i used white sugar and upped it to around 1.4kg and then bottled with a good teaspoon of sugar, after 6weeks conditioning it was great with a wedge of lime - well carbonated and tasty, i find the coopers lagerkits like this one need a good time to condition - i found if you drank them to early they were a bit..........umm...eggy :? As for the brewing temp most lager kits are supplied with ale yeast hence the brewing temp - i always brew at around 18degrees c but a bit above or below will be fine with these! Hope this helps and happy brewing :drink:

Agreed. I did their European Lager and Canadian Blonde. The European Lager certainly improved with cold maturation. The Canadian Blonde did also, but not quite as tasteful as the other.

 

[The Seer]

You beat me to it with the question. Bought the same kit today along with beer enhancer so look forward to any comments about the kit.

The only question I have is what temperature to brew it at. Coopers recommend 21 - 27 degrees, isn't that a bit too high.

Cheers Neil

Sounds a bit high to me too. I know I probably shouldn't but I leave mine at room temp around 21-23 c. Never had any issues, but always room for improvement.

 

[The Seer]

You beat me to it with the question. Bought the same kit today along with beer enhancer so look forward to any comments about the kit.

The only question I have is what temperature to brew it at. Coopers recommend 21 - 27 degrees, isn't that a bit too high.

Cheers Neil

I've heard that beer enhancer doesn't make that much of a difference with these lager kits...?

 

[rickthebrew]

i made several coopers lager type kits and found no difference between sugar and beer enhancer, however i found most bitter or ale kits were better with some spraymalt added - however once you start paying for a kit and a KG of spraymalt your better of buying an all malt 3kg kit like woodfordes or muntons :thumb:

 

[aneray]

Thanks for the advice guys. I think the enhancer turned out to be a waste of money as I had to add nearly a kilo of sugar to bring it up to an SG of 1050, which will hopefully end up around 5.3%. When bottled it will be left until the summer anyway so hopefully it should taste pretty good.

Cheers Neil

 

[stephent]

Just did my coopers with 1k of brewing sugar. Got an OG of 1040. Im wondering if i should add more before its to late.

 

[aneray]

Thats what I did. I feel a little better now knowing somebody else had the same problem as I did. I thought it was just me. I even dug through the recycling to make sure the can said 40 pints and not thirty. Give it a go, stick a bit more sugar in, it won't do much harm.

 

[rickthebrew]

i found a lot of kits were a bit untruthful about expected starting gravity
chuck a bit of sugar in :party:

 

[stephent]

just put about half a kilo in and got it to 1046.

 

[aneray]

If your final gravity is around 1010 you should end up with an abv of about 4.8%, that sounds better. Problem sorted. :thumb: :thumb:

 

[rickthebrew]

it`ll probably finish around 1006 so that should give you around 5.5% :drink: :party:

 

[stephent]

how are you calculating that? The coopers instructions says OG - FG/ 7.46 + 0.5

 

[rickthebrew]

i just divided by 7.36 and didn`t allow for priming sugar :thumb:

 

[stephent]

hows yours going aneray?

Day two and im at 1034. Started at 1046.

 

[aneray]

Its going well Stephen. Started mine off at 1054 and now two days later it is down to 1038.

I do have an electric blanket wrapped around it set on number 1. This gives me a constant temperature of 24 degrees. Even though it is a little high there has never been any problems with the taste in my final product.

Yesterday I did notice a slight eggy smell coming through the airlock, but after just testing the gravity I had a little sip and it seems to be fine.

Cheers Neil