Coopers Extra Smooth Bitter

Coopers Extra Smooth Bitter

Recipe Instructions

Ingredients:

• 1 x 1.7kg Coopers English Bitter Beer Kit
• 1 x 1kg Aussie Brewmakers Beer Improver
• 200g Molasses
• 1 x 15g Premium Lager Yeast

Other Ingredients:

• 200g of Dextrose if kegging with no secondary fermentation or bottle conditioning

Method:

1. Clean / sterilize all equipment including fermenter, paddle, and mug (used for steeping)
2. Discard yeast supplied under the tin lid and sit the tin in hot water for 10 minutes to loosen contents
3. Boil 2.0L of water in kettle
4. Add 1.5ltrs of boiled water to fermenter with the Beer Improver (add slowly to avoid clumping) and Molasses, and stir vigorously to thoroughly dissolve
5. Add contents of the beer kit tin to the fermenter and stir to thoroughly dissolve
6. Pour 250mls boiled water into the beer kit tin and 250ml into the Molasses tin and stir to dissolve the remaining contents, then add to the fermenter
7. Add cold water to the fermenter to 22.5 ltrs and test temperature – make sure it is between 14-22 degrees before pitching yeast
8. Take Hydrometer reading and pitch 15g Premium Lager Yeast and stir gently
9. When fermentation finished check with hydrometer and bottle as per normal.

N.B. If kegging, add 200g of Dextrose at step 4