Coopers stout

[blackerdave]

Just opened my coopers stout and there doesn't seem to be any head retention. Does anyone know what I could have done wrong? It's just spent 3 weeks in the bottle, anybody got any advice?

 

[Yeastmaster]

Hello Blackerdale - did you use sugar, beer kit enhancer or DME/LME with your Coopers stout? Am sat on my sofa drinking 5month old Coopers stout right now. Head ok (nothing like Guinness though) but tastes fantastic!

 

[Noah]

Just opened my coopers stout and there doesn't seem to be any head retention. Does anyone know what I could have done wrong? It's just spent 3 weeks in the bottle, anybody got any advice?

How did you prime it? (You did prime it?) Was it kept in a warmish place to allow for secondary fermentation in the bottle?

I've recently brewed this and it is the quickest fermenting and conditioning brew yet. About 3 weeks from start to finish and improving daily.

 

[BruinTuns]

Hello blackerdave and welcome to HBF.
Coopers stout was my first brew and I have to say that after only 2 weeks conditioning (when I first tasted it) head was almost non-existent, let alone head retention. Maybe it needs more time? But like Yeastmaster's, it tasted amazing :drink:

Ym, how long has yours been conditioning up to now? And, just out of curiosity, what was your recipe, i.e. did you tweak it?

 

[Slid]

Never have got much much head retention on a stout, probably because I put them in 500ml Coopers bottles and rarely screw the lids on as tight as most will. Possibly due to having distance runner's wrists that can't open a new jar of jam other than by passing it discretely to SWMBO with a smile.

On the plus side, carbonation just stirs up the yeast on the bottom and gets in the way when pouring out something like a stout.

 

[MyQul]

If you had wasing up liquid anywhere near any of your beer equipment this will had destroyed your head retention