Turned out great with these adjustments.

A great stout, says an Irishman

I'm a Guinness drinker when I'm out for a pint, at home here in Ireland, where it tastes better than anywhere else in the world (us Irish are great at travelling, but Guinness is not!) But I am more than happy to put Arthurs brew aside for my Coopers stout.  This is not a stout of the same style as the famous G, but a stout so good it's worthy of mention beside it. This is my first go at this kit and I made with 1kg BKE, 500g dark DME, 200g Golden Syurp to 23l, primmed in King Keg with 150g Golden Syurp. At 4 weeks kegged tastes just fantastic, a really easy drinker. It has all the flavours you want in a stout but without being very heavy. I have done the Coopers Irish stout a couple of times before, not sure as yet which I prefair. I have another C's Irish in second keg conditioning now, will be able to do straight comp in a few weeks (if any of this stuff is still left!) Will be doing another brew of this right away! Oh, and I took readings, didn't write them down and forget them now, so not sure how the ABV worked out, but using the recipe above it has a right kick, must be a good 5% plus????

Great Brew

used kit yeast with 1 kg LDM .... great smooth taste .... wonderful dark colour with lingering white head ... finned at 12 days bottles at 14 ... brewed at 12 - 16 degrees ...  its a 5 from me 

important control fermentation temp.

i did twice. 1 with dry hopping with cascade, miitelfrüh and herbsbrucker like 30.g but it fermentated around 25. dry hops taste were very obvios but u might feel the taste of wine. winy taste probably becouse of 25 C. then i made it around 20C, just dark malt and table sugar half to half. turned out great. and it was ready to drink in 2 week which is very fast. anyway it is nice stout for a stout lover, just check the temprature

Incredibly good stout

An excellent kit that produces incredibly good stout (if done right) :)

I used 1x Coopers Stout kit (1.7 kg), 1x Coopers Amber LME (1.5 kg), 1x Coopers BE3 (500 g Light DME, 300 g dextrose, 200 g maltodextrin) topped up to 23 L, fermented Danstar Nottingham Ale yeast for 2 w at 16 degrees celsius, and primed with 110 g of dextrose. ABV 5.4%, 42 IBU, 2.0 vol. CO2.

stout and nothing but stout

been brewing it for the last 8 years +

never had a bad brew,

tryed adding licorish ,coffee etc,but none seem to last in flaver over time

recently have been using BREWMASTERS stout inhancer 50 ml per 23l  and 500 gm of lactose ,the lactose smothes it out incredably great initaly but still disappers after time [ 3-4 weeks]

i only use quater of the yeast and only 500 grams of sugar [ 2 stroke i no ]but you can drink a heap more and dont start speaking dutch and talking brail lol

second brew

Did it with 500g dark spray malt and 500g dextrose. Fermented around 20-21 degrees for 7 days. Tasted it after a week in bottle. Really strange flavour, smelled good though, it was dry and kinda water-ish. It is my second brew, really disappointed.

Another excellent kit from Cooper's

If you like stout then you'll love this kit but beware that it can be very vigorous while fermenting so either stand your fermenting vessel in a bigger bucket or put some towels underneath it!

My preference is to brew the kit with 1kg of medium dried spray malt and 300g of raw cane sugar. I brew it short, to 21 litres and move it to a second fermentation vessel after a week in the primary one. After the second week it's ready for bottling but a few hours beforehand I draw off a small quantity into a saucepan and use this to dissolve 110g of black treacle which is then added back to the beer.

Made up as above this beer will be excellent after only a couple of weeks in the bottle but will really improve with more maturation time, say 2+ months, if you can resist it that long!

Awesome kit!

Stout... in the true sense

Ditch's Stout

This is a STOUT!

delicious!

Best Stout yet

You Can't Go Wrong

Not bad

coffee stout

Stoutish

stout indeed

Top Brew!

My first homebrew

2 Can

top stout

a new fave

Had to make another

coopers stout - first time

Great intro to hobby

Idiot proof (nearly)

Good stout

Good Start for Stout Lovers

bitter dark and full of goodness

My 6th Brew

2 can technique

Versatile

Great Stout

Stouter Stout recipe

great

Not bad

Bloody good stout

The brewing farmer

This is a great early drinking Stout . Must be done with a Stout booster kit ( 500grm dark dried malt, 250grm light dried mlt, 250 grm dried corn starch ) Does have a habbit of climbing out of the fermenter and accross the floor...

2 can screamer