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Hi. I wonder if anyone has tried the original recipe came with the kit because I like to make a good stout with the lowest cost possible. I have 2 kit in hand. Would it be better to make a batch with 2 kit or a 1 kit batch gives a good result?

the receipe on tha can is:

1 can Coopers Stout
1 kg Sugar or Corn Sugar
23 liters of water

If you drop at least half the sugar and replace with malt and only top up the fermenter to 21lts, you'll have a nice cheap stout.

Edit: just use the one kit

+1 on using malt. As the name suggests, stout should be thick not watery.

Cheers

I'd steep some speciality grains maybe some crystal, choclolate malt and roast barley.

1 x tin coopers stout
1.7kg x dme
500g x treacle
40g x POR hops
20g styrian goldings or fuggles add after 45mins

Yeast recultured from coopers pale ale.

This a recipe I am thinking of making in a week or two.

Coopers Stout kit 1.7kg
Coopers Brew Enhancer #2 1.0kg
Honey 250 to 500g
Fuggles 12g
Goldings 12g

Safale S-04 or US-05 Yeast.

Also got some left over home made dark candi sugar that was infused with Orange about 200g that I may throw in.

Will post final recipe once brewed.

Brownie.

Brownie wrote:This a recipe I am thinking of making in a week or two.

Coopers Stout kit 1.7kg
Coopers Brew Enhancer #2 1.0kg
Honey 250 to 500g
Fuggles 12g
Goldings 12g

Safale S-04 or US-05 Yeast.

Also got some left over home made dark candi sugar that was infused with Orange about 200g that I may throw in.

Will post final recipe once brewed.

Brownie.

S-04 would be the go.

Zuma,

Thanks for that S-04 it is.

Brownie.

Is the yeast can really make a difference in this beer. I currently have packets of yeast Coopers in hand but is it worth buying a different kind of yeast or use the one i have?

Lentrave wrote:Is the yeast can really make a difference in this beer. I currently have packets of yeast Coopers in hand but is it worth buying a different kind of yeast or use the one i have?

Reculturing yeast from the Coopers Pale Ale Bottles is the way to go.

If not the yeast you have should be fine.

Just rehydrate it before using.

Where i live (Canada) there is no cooper beer for sale , only kit for homebrewing.

yeast shouldn't make much of a difference in a stout, *relatively speaking*, as the other ingredients are so strong in flavour...the most important points id say (which have already been made) would be lower the water and use malt extract (or at least a cooper's brew enhancer) instead of the sugar

also a cooper's stout + a cooper's dark ale kit, with no added sugar, made to 21L is quite nice (I think credit goes to someone on this board for that one...sorry can't remember who)

I currently have on hand 2 Coopers Stout kit, 1 old Cooper Nut brown kit, 1 Black Rock New Zealand Draft kit, 500g Dark Dry Malt Extract, 250g Light Dry Malt Extract. If I use all the dry malt extract that I have with 1 stout coopers coopers kit + yeast and 20-21L of water I should have a good beer?

probably a bit less water and it should be alright

ok .... 18 L should be ok ?

Put your sanitised hydrometer in the fermenter as you add the top up water - stop when your gravity reads somewhere between 1.040 to 1.045 - the key is the starting gravity of the beer, rather than volume - especially if you prefer not to drink watery thin beer...

Cheers,
TL

Recently made a "cheap" clone of Coopers Best Extra Stout based on another recipe from this site.

1 Coopers Stout kit
500g DDME
500g LDME
250g Dark Brown Sugar
25g Goldings Hop Pellets
Yeast cultivated from Coopers Pale Ale longneck
and made up to 18Litres

Total Cost $22 to make 2 cases. After 4 weeks, it was as good as the real thing (maybe even better!)

I gotta admit - the Coopers Stout kit is one of the rare exceptions that will provide a very good stout with a kilo of malt extract and not much more....the same, sadly, can't be said for all kits but yes, this one is quite good IMHO.

Cheers,
TL

I find that if you can "age" a stout for at lest 6 months the Malts really start to shine. Ive got a AG Oatmeal Stout at 6 months of age and it is wonderful...Might keep some for the 12 month mark, just to see what happens.
As TL said...a great Kit Stout.
Cheers