coopers cerveza

liaml1974

hi,
I've ordered coopers cerveza kit, 500g extra light spray malt,and brewing sugar.
I'm trying to make a light summery beer.anybody any experience with this kit?
I have cascade hop tea bag and was wondering would this be worth adding and at what stage, if at all? I have coopers diy fermenter and will be bottling(no secondry or batch priming) Ive never used hops before but bought cascade because they're suppsed to be citrus flavoured
any help, suggestions appreciated

BeerNut

The sugar is a bad idea as it'll thin out the beer and might give you an unpleasant cidery tang -- a full kilo of spraymalt would have been better, but howanever: use what you have.

Definitely use the dry hops. Drop them in a week or so before bottling.

For best results I would ferment this relatively cool and slow -- if you have a room that's about 15-17C. Let it sit for at least three weeks to allow the yeast to clean up the off flavours.

It's a pretty rubbish kit, but you can make it less worse if you follow the steps above. The Cooper Brewmasters Traditional Draught is the best kit I've come across for the style you're trying to make.

liaml1974

BeerNut wrote: »

The sugar is a bad idea as it'll thin out the beer and might give you an unpleasant cidery tang -- a full kilo of spraymalt would have been better, but howanever: use what you have.

Definitely use the dry hops. Drop them in a week or so before bottling.

For best results I would ferment this relatively cool and slow -- if you have a room that's about 15-17C. Let it sit for at least three weeks to allow the yeast to clean up the off flavours.

It's a pretty rubbish kit, but you can make it less worse if you follow the steps above. The Cooper Brewmasters Traditional Draught is the best kit I've come across for the style you're trying to make.

Thanks beernut, do I just drop the hops in or soak them in boiling water first?
I have extra bag of spray malt so I'll use 1kilo of that. What will the alcohol volume be roughly with all malt?
I'll buy that traditional draught next.

BeerNut

I'd just drop them in loose, out of the teabag.

The ABV will depend on how much you make. At 20L it'll probably end up about 4.7% or so.

liaml1974

thanks for your help

liaml1974

Hi, I've just got round to using hops with a all malt canadian blonde. I just dropped the pellets in out of the tea bag to the fermenter after 6 days. Now there is a green film on top of the brew.
Will this sink to the bottom? I have a fermenter with tap on it,will this stuff get in my bottles?
How long will I leave it before it settles and I bottle? I won't be putting it in secondary bottling bucket?
Thanks

oblivious

liaml1974 wrote: »

Now there is a green film on top of the brew.
Will this sink to the bottom? I have a fermenter with tap on it,will this stuff get in my bottles?
Thanks

Not really unless you have the ability to chill to 1c for a few day. Or just syphon under the hop layer

liaml1974

I dont have the abilty to chill, but what does that do? i think i will chance the tap carefully. i have no syphon pipe.thanks

oblivious

liaml1974 wrote: »

I dont have the abilty to chill, but what does that do? i think i will chance the tap carefully. i have no syphon pipe.thanks

Sounds like a plan