Hurricane Alex Rain Water Beer, finally the taste testing! Also on tap Coopers Selection Wheat Beer canned kit beer taste testing.
After getting a fresh Coopers English Bitter kit from makebeer.net and it turned out fine, but tasting it in tandem with commercially bottled Coopers revealed I simply do not like the Pride of Ringwood hops that Coopers uses, I now needed to test a Coopers kit from my local brewshop. I’d made Coopers kits purchased from my local brewshop some time ago and they turned out poorly. Ruling out the hop bittering, was it my fermentation temperatures or was I getting damaged kits (shipped or stored to hot making them go bad before their expiration date) from my local brewshop? We finally find out in this video.
The bottom line in all homebrew beer making is if you, your family & friends like it, you’ve made a successful beer. Anyone who tells you differently isn’t, uh, well, honestly, isn’t anything.
Cheers, have a homebrew!
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Here’s my video on collecting the Hurricane Alex Rain Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZ9EzxTGhw
Here’s my video on filtering the Hurricane Alex Rain Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcl4Hm-kUK0
Here’s the video I made on brew day for the Hurricane Alex Rain Water Beer, Banks’s Mild Ale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Tbhg8hHHw
Music by Antiqcool
www.antiqcool.co.uk
Creative Commons License – NonCommercial
Filmed with a Kodak Zi8
Edited in Windows 7 with Windows Live Movie Maker
Duration : 0:9:13
In this video I make a Cascadian Dark using 2 Coopers Dark Ale kits, 500 grams of Coopers Dry Malt extract, 2 oz. of Cascade hops, 2 oz. of Amarillo hops and reactivated yeast from Coopers Pale Ale bottles as well as the yeast from the Dark Ale kits. I dry hopped the beer about 6 days after fermentation began.
This is a double taste test of the Cooper’s Lager brewed with maple syrup and the Cooper’s Dark Ale, which was kegged.
Homebrew review of Cooper’s Lager. Approx. 4% ABV, Aged three weeks.
Discussion of Cooper’s Micro Brewery
The debate between extract vs. all grain is over. These are two totally different ways of making beer, and they will yield different results. But, the fact is, most beginners don’t want a complicated procedure. If they gain confidence from kit brewing, they are likely to go on to more advanced methods. Extract brewing has it’s place in the arena, and there is no debate as far as I’m concerned. 
A great product from Coopers
This is a taste test of the Brown Sugar Lager we did a few weeks ago. I basically made a batch of home brew beer and instead of using the standard 1kg of corn sugar, I used the same amount of dark brown sugar instead. How did it turn out??
Preparing my wort for Cherry Wheat Beer. This is a pre-hopped Thomas Coopers kit that I’ll add cherry to before bottling. Music by ME! Check it at: myspace.com/scottdorry.
It’s been over 2 MONTHS since I’ve purchased beer from the store.