Coopers DIY Beer Dark Ale Homebrewing Craft Beer Brewing Extract

Ok so as with everything people either have good or bad experiences. Personally speaking I am on the good end of this. I’ve been homebrewing now for over ten years and have worked as a brewer at 2 brewery’s including my current job. This isn’t meant to be a blow your mind out of the water, brew snob beer. It’s meant to help people learn the art of brewing, sure some people will get low abv or have bad fermentation’s but this little kit is a darn sight cheaper than doing an all grain and way cheaper than doing a full on brewery batch. It can be a brew for people to get interested while producing a rather good ale for the money, or it can be whatever you wanna make it. For me I was in a time crunch and had some friends that wanted a fun little beer so I added in muntons dark malt extract, maple syrup, brown sugars, more hops, and then some other goodies and I produced a stellar little Indian brown ale that was perfect for a fall seasonal with this kit (coopers dark ale) as my primary ingredient and it ended right around 8%. Brewing is about having fun :) so grab a can mix and match, make your own amazing little brew and keep it up the only way we grow in this world is by constant innovation and evolving our ideas! And remember failure is the first step to success, I’ve messed up plenty of brews when I was learning and even on a rare occasion nowadays (hasn’t happened in the last 7 months 🤞) but the thing is to learn from your mistakes and move on. Brewing is very forgiving in that sense. Cheers lads and brew on!

I add 600ml of fresh strawberry juice, put through my juicer and strained several times, + 1kg of brown sugar to this extract. Put's me at about 6% possibly more. I also use 6 gallons of walmart distilled water (88 cents per gallon), as my tap water tastes like a swimming pool. I put the bottles in the bath tub for a week, incase they blow, before refrigeration for 2 months for a bit more head. The brew has just a hint of strawberry back flavor, and carmel/molasses from the brown sugar. Perfect with this extract's already back bitterness. 7 days brew time. It's killer fruitelicious! Less than 50 bucks for 5 1/2 12 packs of what I was paying for bluemoon's or corona's at 20 bucks for a 12 pack, and a much smoother beer + better buzz. I lover Coopers. :)

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I have brewed Coopers Dark Ale, English Bitters and Irish Stout. Much easier than the kits that require 1-3 hours of boiling. I simply add 4 pounds of everyday cane sugar, mix it with hot water from my coffee brewer, add 5 gallons of tap water and pitch the yeast. Sometimes it takes 1 week to brew, sometimes 2 weeks. I stopped using the hydrometer a long time ago. It's obvious when it's ready to bottle. I prime it with half a cup of cane sugar and bottle it in 2, 1, and 1.5 liter soda bottles. They work great. I also bottle some in the clear Mexican beer bottles and use my capper. Bottom line: Home brewed Coopers makes store bought beer taste like soda water.

This beer came out excellent. We added 2 lbs DME (Light & Amber) and .5lbs Sugar to the can for 5 US Gallons. The taste is very clean after about 5 weeks (2 Primary 3 in bottle) and the beer has a subtle sweetness, it came out very nicely.

OK, but wasn't my favorite Coopers kit. I added lots of extra malt, but it had a strange off flavor that I've not had in any other Coopers product. On a happy note, the off flavor subsided with age as it sat in the bottles.

Very easy

Wow, I'm not going to put the product down because I am not certain if it because of the product itself. However, this came beat to s**t, no yeast, no lid, and no instructions. Luckily I already had yeast as a live culture from previous use. When I got down boiling the wort and tasted it, I was pretty close to just throwing it away. It tastes like some sort of chemical factory. Like if you were to take a mouth full of tylenol and chew them up. Instant repulsive spit it and and go brush teeth. I'm sure the end result will be a complete and total failure.

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Always good! I'm excited to taste the finished product as always.

So simple to make, been doing home brew for approx 5 months with stout/irish stout fancied a change. dark Ale is lovely, and of you can't handle the taste, try it mixed 50/50 with stout! its tasty and that little bit different. Gotta say, leave it fermenting as long as you can bear. Such much better than the commercial stuff. Lots of bottles and patience!

I like the beer but not the price