Best one yet

Not for me thanks.

Normally I do a recipe to the supplied instructions before reviewing. This time I skipped over, using MJ ale yeast, wheat malt and dry hopping with EKG in addition to the booster, as I figured the apparently large fan base of Real Ale made it a sure winner. Nope. By the time it had aged sufficiently to lose the awful iso hop taste which initially dominated the flavour, the EKG had long faded and the wheat malt was stale. No doubt a recipe fail, but I cant disguise my disappointment in this kit from any angle. Coopers do a wide range with some great entries, so I put this down to it being a budget end kit for beer lovers with -er- different tastes. Probably would be ok just doing the basic recipe and ageing a few months. But that would be a bit dull, right?

Not Bad

Brewed this with its sold yeast and dextrose. Brewed well, result good carbonation refreshing, inoffensive but fairly dull. Good for the money but the sort of beer that I lose interest with and not one you sit there and look forward to. Probably better with a Safale yeast

Great Beer

Brewed with 1 kg LDM and kit yeast ....finned after 10 days bottled after 14 day ... SG 1040 FG 1006 .... has a great deep rich amber brown colour and creamy white lingering head ... smooth malty taste with nice hint of hop ...  highly recommend as it is easy and tastes great ... commercial beer drinkers love it ... 

Cooper Ale review

Found a kit in the garage which was 4 years past its best before date.  Took up a challenge to make a palatable.

Ingredients:

1 x coopers real ale kit, 500g Amber malt (DRY), 300g dextrose, 500ml honey, 300g Crystal grain (Steeped) , 300g oats (Mashed), 20g SAAZ hops (Steeped), 20g cascade dry hopped), M44 mangrove jacks yeast. Added water to make 23l

Fermented in the primary for 10 days.  Bulked primed with dextrose.  Bottled conditioned for 4 weeks.

Very good result and was surprised the flavour of the hops very pronounced.  already have another one of these down as all of my freind prefered this over the 10 batches i have the beer fridge.

My favourite

Have brewed a few times now, first one had an after-taste as the fermentation temperature was too high. Have since had great results brewing at 18 degrees using us05 yeast and BE2. Dependable results and always popular with the commercial beer drinking friends. Latest one in the fermenter has hop additions and smells fantastic. A high quality, cost effective brew. 

Coopers Real Ale

I have been making Coopers Real Ale for the last 5 year, and every time it just seems to get better. I dont change must from whats in the kit in the way of the malt of brewing sugar but I do add a extra 500gs of liquid 500g glucose. at a starting temp of 25 degs c my SG is 1040 before I pitch my yeast. Ferment time I around 5 days as our house is at a temp of 24 degs all year round FG is at 1.000 giving me a beer of around a 5.2% Al vol. I bottle in 750 mls PET bottles with 2 carbon drops per bottle. Secondery fermentation is done in a dark warm second stage fermantation box for 12 days. After 12 days it is aged on a shelve for 2 to 3 monthslonger if needed. I will test sample 1 bottle once a month to get it to how I like it. With adding the 500g glucoses I have it give my beer a full body and a very smooth hop taste. When chilled to 4 degs and poured at the end of the pour there is a creamy head of around 25mm in the glass. Many of my friends enjoy this beer and there wives also. 

Very nice - reminds me of De Koninck

Just made this with 500g LDME and 500g glucose/dextrose.

Fermented using kit yeast at 20 degrees (temp controlled using fridge and STC-1000), only took a week or so. Brewed slightly short to 22 liters.

After 2 weeks in the bottle (5g/l bottling sugar) already very enjoyable indeed!

Fruity but with a malty mouthfeel, well carbonated, decent lacing, not very bitter, easy drinking. Reminded me of Belgian (Antwerp) beer "De Koninck".

Very curious to see how this turns out in a month or two - but I'm unsure if I can leave them for that long...

Edit 21 Nov:

We're a few weeks later now and I'm happy to say this has evolved into an even nicer, very stable beer. Once again, top quality from Coopers!

Un-real Ale!

I have made this kit a couple of times now and I will continue to go back for it. The only thing that I have done aside from the normal instructions was to steep 2C of honey malt for about 40 min and add it to the original mix. I find that this adds a really nice subtle honey note to it. The I have found that with this kit you can drink it after 2 weeks of conditioning but it only gets better with time so I suggest leaving it for at least 4 weeks before drinking and more if you can. When I brew it I start it at 26 degrees and put it on a Copper Tun which tends to lower it to 24 degrees over the span of about 2 days. If you are looking for a hoppy ale you will have to do some additions for sure but if you want an easy drinking ale this is it. 

Original Ale

1.7kg Coopers Real Ale,  1kg Coopers Brew Enhancer 2, supplied yeast.

Fermented it at around 25 degrees for 2 weeks, at the end of week 2 I added Gelatin and put the fermenter in the fridge to drop the sediment. It came out really clear with little to no cloudiness. 

This was my first homebrew and stoked with the outcome ready to drink after 2 weeks bottle conditioned, really good tasting beer. 

Coopers Unreal Ale

1.7kg Coopers Real Ale,  1kg Coopers Brew Enhancer 1,  500g Coopers Light Dry Malt and the supplied yeast.

OG – 1047 FG – 1010 Alch 4,86% + 0,5% = 5,36%

Lovely beer – kept bottles standing up and left alone while conditioning some turned out a wee bit cloudy.  This was a fantastic brew though and I will definitely try it again and perhaps add some finings to deal with the cloudy issue and may try a hops to add to the smell and flavour.

Amarillo ale

So far so good

a real ale

Cooper Real

Real Malty

Good Product

This is REAL ALE

Unreal Ale

Good ale

First Brew

Real Ale

impressive

Beautiful

Nice Stuff

Nice Stuff

Nice with honey

Coopers real ale

A trusted old friend

A Sparkling Ale...!

Real good for a kit...

The first few beers I ever brewed were these. Excellent with the brew booster, and better still with a cultured yeast from the Coopers Sparkling Ale. Brewed at or below 20 deg and left to age a couple of months this is a very decent kit beer. My mates were happy with and said they couldn;t pick it from the Commercial stuff. (I dont know if that's a compliment...:-))