Canadian Eh!L Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Hey Gang, I am sampling my latest version of my most beloved house brew. Wow! It's almost sad that with all my experiments with grains and hop additions that a classic (for me anyway[joyful] ) kit with the simplest hop addition could taste so good. Don't kid yourself into thinking more is better. The Cooper's kits are well balanced and don't need much tweeking to make a great beer! Make sure you brew at 16-20C, don't use too much dex or BE's, and bulk prime with the correct amount of priming solution and you're on your way to a good beer![cool] Try this one when you don't have a lot of time to make a real fancy brew! 1.7Kg OS Draught 1.0Kg LDM 23L water 14g Kit yeast pitched @23C brewed @18C 26g Cascade (dry hop) 150g Dex (bulk prime) OG 1.040 FG 1.010 ABV 4.4% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 That looks like a pretty cool recipe.. I just got my hop order the other day with about 250g of Cascade in it (among others), I might give that one a go, I haven't tried the OS Draught since I started brewing again yet, but I keep reading good things about it so might be time to give one a go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ash Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Thanks Chad might try this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregT5 Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Chad, I have made that one a few times after you posted the recipe a while ago. I found it had a very orange/citrus taste early but mellows nicely after a couple of months. A simple recipe that makes a very nice beer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
***** Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 Hey Gang, ..... a classic (for me anyway[joyful] ) kit with the simplest hop addition could taste so good. Don't kid yourself into thinking more is better. The Cooper's kits are well balanced and don't need much tweeking to make a great beer! ..... Hey Chad I'm now just sampling a stubbie or two of my Centrillo Gold (Vintage 8 months bottled). How your words ring true, although I used a simple addition of Carapils. Coopers OS Draught 500g LDM 200g Carapils Centennial 5g @ 10 mins and 20g @ 5 mins. Amarillo 5g @ 7 mins and 20g @ 5 mins. Pale Ale kit yeast It is quite refreshing, after painting today, but the Carapils could have been left out and replaced with 200g of Dry Wheat Malt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Eh!L Posted September 5, 2012 Author Share Posted September 5, 2012 Hey Scott, That "Centrillo Gold" sound nice. I might give it a go sometime. The beauty of my Cascade Draught is that there is no boil or steeping of grains. Simply mix the can of goo and the DME, top up to 23l, pitch the yeast and forget about it. Dry hop after 7days. The head retention was most impressive for such a young beer without the addition of grain.[cool] I put down my first AG brew yesterday. It took 6 1/2 hours to accomplish. This Cascade Draught recipe takes 15 mins![biggrin] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy Waters Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 I might give this a try to use up some stocks before I put in my next order for grains and hops....now I wish I'd picked up a cheaper can of OS draught when it was on special last week. Oh well I guess I'll just have to dig deeper and pay the extra $2 [cool] All the best with the spoils of your first AG Chad [biggrin] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Eh!L Posted September 5, 2012 Author Share Posted September 5, 2012 Oh well I guess I'll just have to dig deeper and pay the extra $2 [cool] All the best with the spoils of your first AG Chad [biggrin] Think of the saving on all those grains and other fancy bits![biggrin] Thanks, Muddy! I hope it tastes half as good as it felt to have this one under my belt.[cool] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westbeach Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Hi there. I'm pretty new to brewing but decided to give this cascade draft recipe here a try. I just added the dry hops (after 7 days) and was wondering roughly how long after doing this step before racking the brew and bottling? I guess the obvious answer might be when the specific gravity is the same for two days in a row... but maybe the hops need a little longer? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 G'day westbeach -- you'll typically want to wait at least 3-4 days after dry-hopping before bottling, though I've extended this to just over a week (8-9 days) without issue. From memory, my own attempt at Chad's Draught PA was dry-hopped for around 6 days, and it resulted in a bloody tasty drop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 That looks like a pretty cool recipe.. I just got my hop order the other day with about 250g of Cascade in it (among others)' date=' I might give that one a go, I haven't tried the OS Draught since I started brewing again yet, but I keep reading good things about it so might be time to give one a go![/quote'] Ah.. this one, never actually got around to brewing this. It was about two or three weeks later that I got my urn and mill etc for AG brewing and since then I haven't gone back to any kits or extract brews, except one EB kit last year before I went to Sydney just to get a quick batch going, as there was no time to do a full AG brew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westbeach Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Thanks for the input Gibbo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaca Brew Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Looks like a really great recipe. I have been looking to try a new kit and can't wait to give it a try. I know the Cooper's yeast kits are pretty good but do you think a different yeast could make it even better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 An American ale yeast would go well with this recipe I would think, if you didn't want to use the kit yeast. US-05 is probably the easiest of the dry varieties to get a hold of. There are also numerous liquid strains available from Wyeast and White Labs, although I think a lot of the strains they both market are actually the same as each other's, e.g. the WL Budejovice lager yeast is the same as Wyeast Budvar lager yeast etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Eh!L Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 Yup. I'd go with US-05 like Otto said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaca Brew Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Thanks, I will order the Safale US-5 by Fermentis 11.5g packet for this kit. Just kegged a Canadian Blonde dry hopped with 15g of cascade pellets. Left it in the FV for 5 weeks. Dry hopped on day 24. Great beer just sorry I used BE1. With the OS Draught will just just follow the recipe! Peggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaca Brew Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Hi Chad, Made your Cascade Draught May 2nd as follows: 1.7kg OS Draught 1.5kg Coopers light malt extract 11.5g US-05 yeast @22°c fv has been at a steady 18°c dry hopped 26g cascade pellets on day 7 I usually leave it in the fv for about 3 weeks then keg. Do you think it would be better to keg sooner or is my 3 week time frame ok? Thanks, Peggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Nothing wrong with 3 weeks for a timeframe. If you have the ability you could even cold crash it for the last week to drop some extra yeast out before transferring to the keg. All my ales get about 3 weeks in the fermenter. A week to ferment, another 4-5 days to clean up, then the remainder sitting at 0 degrees until bottling day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Eh!L Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 Hi Peggy I'm glad to hear your trying this recipe out. I haven't brewed it myself in a while now, but I still remember it being a good one. Like Otto said three weeks in the FV is fine. In fact it is around the length of time I usually shoot for. Let us know what you think once it's kegged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaca Brew Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 It smells good already. I just picked up a used frig that will hold one FV. I just need to reinforce the bottom shelve that way I will be able to cold crash it like suggested. My keg has been sitting empty can not wait until until this is ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewbie Newbie Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Hi, I am going to try brewing this next week but I have a few questions as I have never dry hopped before. I use a two stage fermentation process where I transfer it to a carboy after about 4 days and let it finish in there. Should I dry hop it at that time or wait until day 7? Also, I bottle with a siphon so I would try and not have any hops get into my bottles? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Just leave it in the primary and dry hop it in there after fermentation is nearly completed. There is no need to rack to a secondary after 4 days, regardless of dry hopping. It is a practice that is falling out of favour with a lot of people as there is no benefit whatsoever to doing it.* *It does have its place - such as prolonged storage of fermented beer, or bulk priming the batch (the transferring in both cases is done post fermentation), but in a normal fermentation/bottling schedule, you're wasting your time really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewbie Newbie Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Just leave it in the primary and dry hop it in there after fermentation is nearly completed. There is no need to rack to a secondary after 4 days' date=' regardless of dry hopping. It is a practice that is falling out of favour with a lot of people as there is no benefit whatsoever to doing it.* *It does have its place - such as prolonged storage of fermented beer, or bulk priming the batch (the transferring in both cases is done post fermentation), but in a normal fermentation/bottling schedule, you're wasting your time really. [img']wink[/img] So just to conform Otto, I use a pail as my primary and a glass carboy as my secondary after about 4 days. I should just leave it in the pail for the whole 3 week fermentation time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I would yeah. Either that or use the carboy as the primary, though you'd want an airlock or tin foil over it as some way to let the gas escape. In the past I've left lagers in the primary for up to 9 weeks. I don't now, but it's more about not wanting to wait that long than any issues with flavor from doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaca Brew Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 This is really a great quick brew. Brewed: June 2nd Dry hopped: June 9th Cold crashed: June 18th Kegged: June 27th First glass: June 30th I like this beer a lot. It is the type of beer I have been looking to make for awhile now. I have made the Coopers Mexican Cerveza and the Coopers Canadian Blonde a few times now with different additions and they all had "that taste" to them. This is the first Coopers kit that tastes like a real beer and I am very happy to have 18L kegged. The thing I did different with this brew is: US-05 yeast liquid malt not LDM no BE or Dex thanks for the recipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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