GrahamB8 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Just got back from a week staying with family in Adelaide (best ANZAC day in the country btw). Anyway I talked my cousin into going on the Coopers brewery tour and after a bit of phone grovelling with coopers they let us on [biggrin]. Now Ive done a few tours most recently the Carlton one and the actual mechanics are very similar but the actual tour itself and the knowledge of the tour guide put the others in its shadow, we even got to peek into a live mash and boil. The usual run down of merchandise at the end (I got a tshirt and another beer mat for the bar) then we got onto the tasting. We tryed all the beers Coopers are producing and even the APA from a can which is under a different name because the flavor from fermenting in a can is different from the bottle (which I didnt know so was kinda cool). At the end the guide treat us all to a taste of a 2009 Vintage ale which was a very pleasant suprise. So if your in Adelaide pay them a visit, its only $20 and you get to keep your tasting glass and all proceeds goto charity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 It is definitely on the to-do list when I eventually get to Adelaide. Did PB2 buy you a beer whilst you were there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilboBaggins Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 You live here all you're life, but never do these things. [roll] I'm gonna have to go soon I reckon. Dad's arm could be twisted I reckon. [happy] I'm hurt that you didn't come to visit Graham. [crying] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExpatSthAussie Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Just got back from a week staying with family in Adelaide (best ANZAC day in the country btw). Big call mate, been to Townsville on ANZAC day ? 2,500+ troops & marching down the Strand with planes, choppers & jets passing over. Huge. Glad you got looked after in Radelaide. AdamN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregT5 Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 I was lucky. When I did the tour, PB2 did the tasting part, so technically, Paul did buy me a beer on my visit [cool] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB2 Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Paul did buy me a beer on my visit [cool] The pleasure was mine [biggrin] I'm scheduled to fill in as tour guide this week so there will be a lot more shouting going on [lol] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 i did the tour last year.. was a great trip. ive also done the Hieniken tour in Holland, The Guinness tour in Ireland and the Jamesons tour.. out of all the brewery tours i rate the coopers one the most informative and relevant. the others just use old warehouses/storehouses and a lot of video tutorials. best part of the Guinness tour was the end.. my gf doesnt drink.. so i had 2 pints of Guinness.. then a couple little old ladies came up to me " you look like a man that enjoys a pint of 2.. here is our coupons, we dont drink it" so i ended up having 4 pints.. then we had to rush off to the Jamesons Distillery. where i got stuck into that too.. was getting mashed by dinner time :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 i did the tour last year.. was a great trip. ive also done the Hieniken tour in Holland, The Guinness tour in Ireland and the Jamesons tour.. out of all the brewery tours i rate the coopers one the most informative and relevant. the others just use old warehouses/storehouses and a lot of video tutorials. best part of the Guinness tour was the end.. my gf doesnt drink.. so i had 2 pints of Guinness.. then a couple little old ladies came up to me " you look like a man that enjoys a pint of 2.. here is our coupons, we dont drink it" so i ended up having 4 pints.. then we had to rush off to the Jamesons Distillery. where i got stuck into that too.. was getting mashed by dinner time :D [lol] I did the same thing. My wife doesn't like Guinness or whiskey so I had her share of the stout and directly followed it up with her share at the Jameson distillery. I was a write off by 11am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 My wife doesn't like Guinness or whiskey so I had her share of the stout and directly followed it up with her share at the Jameson distillery. I was a write off by 11am. sounds like the start to a perfect day[biggrin] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 my GF has suggested a second visit to coopers brewery.. so.. we are lining up a bunch of mates and taking a couple of cars full of eager punters :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerlust Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Hi guys. Yesterday I finally did the Coopers Brewery Tour. And have a guess who ended up being our tour guide? You guessed it, the one & only PB2! I don't want to discuss too much of what was shown & spoken about as to not ruin the experience for those contemplating taking the tour but do have a couple of pics on one area I found very interesting & thought the AG'ers here would too, without being too much of a spoiler. Below is a picture up in the mash tun room. Take note of the row of screens in the background. This is the Coopers mash filter. ....a slightly closer pic of about half of it.... Unlike us home brewers, Coopers absolutely pulverize all of the grain into a powder resembling the consistency of flour & mash this. Whereas a home brewer does a crush to maintain some fragment level of grain that acts as a filtering bed, or you run into problems of stuck mashes & stuck sparges. No such problem here for Coopers as after the mash is complete the wort is pushed through this mash filter of some 100 odd filter screens & then sparged. Compressed air is used in some way to prevent the screens from clogging, & the spent mash solids are drawn away, & collected for use in livestock feed, while the filtered wort is transferred to the fermentation tanks. A bit of a shame no brew was happening on the day, as I would have loved to have seen this in action. A home brewer using a crushed grain bed as a filter is pretty happy to achieve 75% efficiency. This pulverized grain & mash filter method allows Coopers to achieve 98-99% efficiency according to PB2! Quite amazing! PB2 is a wealth of knowledge & I enjoyed listening to him explain the various areas of the brewery, the processes involved, history & development aspects of the brewery, along with some of the stories he was able to tell the group that only someone who has worked for the company for a long period of time could possibly know & share. His often dry humour throughout was great. I really enjoyed the tour & would highly recommend it to those interested. I was lucky enough to have a short chat with PB2 after the tour, & may have chatted longer but could see he was keen to get back to the office. Thanks for your time on the day Paul! Lusty. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Journeyman Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 34 minutes ago, Beerlust said: Yesterday I finally did the Coopers Brewery Tour. And have a guess who ended up being our tour guide? You guessed it, the one & only PB2! Wish I could have gotten there on your extra ticket... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Interesting stuff, but wouldn't it go to the kettle before the fermenting tanks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerlust Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 On 1/22/2020 at 12:52 PM, Otto Von Blotto said: Interesting stuff, but wouldn't it go to the kettle before the fermenting tanks? Oops. Yes. As there was no brew happening on the day, we moved through some areas a little quicker than others. Cheers, Lusty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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