Easy Home Brewing - Coopers IPA with Extra Hops
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- Опубликовано: 18 фев 2013
- This video shows an easy method I use to brew a simple Coopers IPA in about 45 minutes. Beer kits tend to lack in hop aroma and flavor. I use this method to bang out quick batches to fill the pipeline when I'm strapped for time. It makes pretty damn decent beer.
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G'day my name is Brad and I'm a Australian 🇦🇺.I love making home brew. I've been doing it for years, about 40yrs and doing it on a large scale, 🍻
Craig you inspired me to start brewing. I follow your simple and easy steps to brew beer. Well done. Thank you.
Every time I'm about to do a batch, I check out your vids for good, easy tips. You have to be the nicest guy on You Tube. I'm making a Pale Ale with Galaxy Hops today :-)
Thanks craig. I finally got round to making this brew. After letting it sit for 3 weeks its carbonated beautifully with a creamy head and tastes fantastic. Well done, mate.
Thank you very much. You rock.
Just started brewing beer thanks to you. Had my first coopers lager last night
Thank you so much for this great video!! My buddy and I made a small batch of an IPA tonight and watched your video for inspiration.
I like the fact that you are so entertaining that you basically just could be sitting in a room with a beer and still be entertaining without doing anything else. Your awesome man! Like the new intro BTW!
Bravo Craig! Excellent instruction. After 4 years of kit brewing I too remain very satisfied with the quality and simplicity of kit "brewing".
Your technique is close to my method for adding extra hops. I prefer a fine mesh bag to hold my homegrown hops. Steeping the hop bag in the DME/Dextrose wort boil.
1)Pour the kit can into the fermenter;
Add the hop, DME/Dextrose wort (tea);
Rinse can with some of the reserved wort(tea).
hops to CoopersIPA, Draught and Australian Bitters
I'm quite sure I watched this video a second time, but it is still very much appreciated,... Thank you!
I never get tired of watching you brew up a batch of beer Craig...Cheers, 17!
Hi CraigTube, nice to see your new easy homebrew video. Love to follow your HBW videos as well. You've helped me to start homebrewng some three years ago, and I'm still enjoying it. Have done all-grain in the meantime, but for the most it's from beerkits. That's just the way it is in the part of the world I live in, can't get anything here. Everything has to be imported. So, really appreciate you introducing easy homebrewing to the many. Thanks!
Great video, iv been doing the coopers IPA like this for a while now, I do a 15 min boil with 2 hop additions, I also use US-05, the beer I get is amazing, can't believe it came from a kit it's so good.
Keep up the good work Craig, your vids helped me get back in to brewing.
Cheers
I love it. Another great video from Craig. I want to try this next! CHEERS
Hi there Craig, All the way from down under here in Australia were Im proud to say Coopers among a few other Aussie & or neighbours New Zealand make some of the finest can malt brews on the market today!! I just wanted to let you know I have just today purchased 2 kits of the THOMAS COOPERS IPA from my local homebrew shop who was also kind enough to make me up 2 mixed bags of 700g DEX 500g LDM and finally 2 bags of 28grams of cascade pellet hops... this will be my FIRST brew I have made from watching a youtube video But! by far not my first brew.. I have been enjoying making very basic, per kit instructions brews for many years now with very good results 99% of the time but I was getting board with the same old same old and wanted to thank you for making this video that has given me a push in the direction to experiment more with my brewing!! & try new ideas that guys like you have MASTERED and take your time to share with all of use fellow you tubes... SO A BIG CHEERS FORM AUSSIE MATE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK P.S WILL LET YOU KNOW HOW IT TURNS OUT..
Hi Craig, I'm a new subscriber to your channel, and let me tell you, I've really learned a lot about beer brewing, you have been a great inspiration and a great source of practical knowledge. I 'm a beginner but already I'm brewing some great tasting ales. Keep up the good work!
I just did this kit today. Can + 1kg of brew enhancer 2 and adding some Cascade hops to the boil. Filled it up to 21.5 liters and got an OG of 1.042. Estimating about 4.7% ABV if it ends around 1.010. For me, a lower ABV isn't a dealbreaker and it's so much easier just using a brew enhancer. I'm hoping that this gets to be one of my go to kits for filling the pipeline! Thanks for all the great videos Craig!!
I just made a Coopers IPA today, but with a twist - since I have 3 brewing vessels which total 65 litres, the materials I used were: 1 can of Coopers IPA wort, 2 kilos Muntons extra light spray dry malt, 2.5 kilos regular sugar (sucrose). I have hops growing in my garden and they need a couple of days sunshine to be ready to pick. When they have been harvested, I will put a bucket full into a muslin bag and boil them in just enough water to cover, then add that to the wort which by this time will be fermenting vigorously.
This recipe results in a very fruity / citrusy IPA of about 5% ABV. I let a few bottles of the last batch sit for 6 months, it seems to just get better as it ages.
Great work buddy, quick, no ranting and very helpful for the guys wanting to church up the generic beer extract kits.
I've just bottled my first batch of the Coopers IPA, and this video was very helpful. As a fellow Canadian, I concur on the high cost of beer due to the Liquor Distribution Board. I'm excited to try this since it's about a third of the cost of a 24 of Canadian, and I'm sure it'll be much better. Will definitely try adding hops next time.
I just took my reading on this and it smells and tastes amazing, I can't wait to enjoy a cold one later in spring. I'd highly recommend trying this one.
Straight forward and friendly, thanks Craig.
This is your best beer making video, IMHO. Your vids have inspired me to do homebrews with much success so far. I really enjoy IPA, so the next batch I do, will try adding pellet hops in the boil. Many thanks!
i buy the northern brewer extract kits, super simple. bought a 10 gallon pot for 5 gallon full boil, sometimes the hot break is overzealous. bought a torch propane burner off amazon, and no more stove boils. can boil 6 gallons of cool water in under 25 minutes. my last one was a dry dock pale ale, not bad, but definitely not the best ive made. great video craig
Followed this somewhat and got an awesome beer out of it. Thank you :-) !
- Coopers IPA kit
- 1 pound of DME
- 500g of corn sugar
- 1oz of cascade hops (pretty fresh) in the boil for 5 mins at the end.
Pretty good ! :-)
Craig, you demonstrate excellently a simple method with good results for adding hop flavor.
Being a Hop Head, and constantly looking for more hop flavor, yet still keeping my brewing methods simple, I have evolved my brew method from kits to my own custom recipes too.
After several years of kit contentment, I am still a dedicated "extract brewer".
I start with Filtered Lake Ontario municipal water, unhopped malt extracts, and do a 2-gallon 60-minute boil.
My recipes and hop schedule often include dry hopping too.
Using unhopped extracts and growing my own Cascade, Willamette, Nugget, Mount Hood hop varieties keeps my costs down. Although, I sometimes add Centennial, Simcoe, Chinook and other hop varieties which are purchased for use in my recipes.
I remain dedicated to crafting my beers with extracts and my hop head friends think the results are fine art.
+John Migliore Thanks for the answer to my question John. This was my first and likely only brew with a pre-hopped kit. The next two brews in the pipeline are extract also but with specialty grains and my own hop schedule and it looks really good so far. I think that's the way I will go for a long time. hop on!
Ah, the art of brewing.Consider home-brew an artistic outlet for your creativity.
Love the Easy HomeBrewing Series ...Got me Started Brewing Thanks Craig
Hi Graig, like the video. Thanks for the brewing inspiration. Have started yet another batch of cider in your honour.
Your proper-job, a pleasure to watch, thanks.
i love your videos always good information and some great tips keep up the great work craig :)
Thanks, Craig. This will be my first larger batch, after a number of 2 gal batches. Thanks for the information, and encouragement. bob
these instructionals are always appreciated, my copper's american lager kit still isnt here yet, cant wait!
just bottled mine like in this video, looking forward to drinking it , thanks Craig!
I love your videos. it's a nice diversion from work
i did this brew today (tagged you on my FB post) thanks for the recipe i cant wait to taste it in a month or so! i tweaked the hop timing just just to get a bit more out if it for my liking but apart from that. cheers mate
Dude. I know you can buy ingredients anywhere, but you mention Cooper's a lot. I certainly hope they appreciate your endorsement. They should at least give you enough free kits to keep you stocked up on beer. I know this vid is old, but you still mention Cooper's in your vids that come out years later. You're a fantastic resource of information, and mentioning Cooper's reaches thousands upon thousands of people.
Craig. Done my first brew but i didn't boil it on the stove. I just put boiling water in the fermenter and mixed all ingredients. Thats where i went wrong. Thanks for the great vids. Still drank the beer. It was still ok.
Brendan
Effen awesome video, man! I like your swagger, I like your style! 🤙🏼
I've just bought this kit.. I cannot see any other way of doing it like yours Craig. Thanks for the video.
i made my batch exactly the same way, nearly a year on & I've still got a few bottles left.. everyone who tastes it loves it
Nice addition to a coolers kit cheers. I brewed a basmati pale ale & a smash beer this past long weekend myself.
Love your videos Craig
Cool post. I think I'll give it a try. At least during the winter. Too cold out in the garage right now and I have carpet on the kitchen floor. I think the wife will go along with this. Thanks.
Hey Craig from Brisbane Australia been watching your videos on home brewin for a while now. I back into brewing now after an 8 year break and enjoy adding grain to a coopers kit to make them better. looking forward to experimenting more.
Hey and also by the way I watched a video you did not long ago about coopers sparkling ale review and the bottle had plastic round the cap. In Australia it isn't sold like that , it must have something to do with shipping it overseas. Its a great beer from a great brewer. Thanks Craig for all your info. Ian
Hey Craig, Curt Here !! I Have Been Following Your Channel Faithfully Just Like The Old Days Just Have More Time Now After Losing My Job. Awesome Your Still Using Our Ending CHEERS'N'BEERS Still, Classic 2008 Material There. So Impressed How Amazing You Kept The Stein It Looks Better Then When I Sent It To You. We Are Due For A Skype Chat When You Can Talk Soon My Friend!
Glad you enjoyed it Craig
Exellent good old homebrewing video !!
Craig!!!!!! I am begging your forgiveness! I brewed the IPA the way you told me and its WONDERFUL!!!! You do have great taste buds and you way is tops!!! Again I'm sorry for my inpatient ignorance! Cheers!
Craig you are a wizard!
Craig you're the man! Thanks for sharing!
This is a great brew method. Just done one and about to do another. I just used the IPA with a can of malt extract plus 300 gram of dry malt and 30 gram of Cascade.
I like to add the liquid malt extract to the pot of boiling water before adding it to the fermenter. Take the boiling pot off the heat before adding the liquid can. That way, you can mix it and make sure it is fully dissolved before adding it to your fermenter.
Great video there Craig, entertaining as always and I've ordered the IPA kit and hops. This'll be the first time I've added hops to a brew so I'm looking forward to seeing whether my batch turns out as enjoyable as yours evidently is!
I was surprised when I saw you dump the hop sediment into your fermentor. I'm going to make up a Coopers Lager using this method and see how that turns out. Thanks for posting this vid. Cheers.
Have a staff party coming in 5 weeks. Perfect excuse to finally try this out!
Ive done this a few times now so would like to say thanks Craig this makes an excellent session beer.
I think the whole all grain vs extract thing is a lot like Salmon fishing, some say they should only be caught on a fly rod, I say catch them any way can........ Cheers
Hi there, great vid! I'm planning to use the exact same Coopers kit and ill add 1kg of cane sugar. Next I'm planning to add hops during silent fermentation for aroma. I've bought 100g cascade, and 50g of mosaic and citra. How much should I add so i dont over do it?
Brewed this 2 weeks ago and just kegged it. A real nice beer.
10 days old and NO extract twang, it is gone. A nice IPA, crystal clear also.
Nice video. I have the same Cooper's kit. I am going to brew this weekend. I am going to use some Willamette hops, some extra liquid malt (unhopped) and some dry malt extract.
Great vid!!!! Did this with a muntons ipa a few weeks ago and it tastes great!
Good work Craig, you made me drink at 10am in the morning can't wait to fire up brewing here, being summer here it is to hard to control the temp, drinkin some Aussie pale ale that I brewed a few months ago, not a bad drop mate.
Thanks for the vid. Since I started school, I really haven't had time to do full fledged beer kits. I'll be doing this tomorrow. BTW, you don't have to sacrifice any beer if you just put your sanitized hydrometer into the beer thief. That's what I do.
Hi love your vids watched a lot of them and decided to start home brewing myself starting with extract for now I am making a Coopers preacher wheat beer and apple cider and looking at making this IPA with the hops but what do you think of putting cbw sparkling amber in place of the dry malt ?
hi Craig I bought this kit a while ago and have just finish fermenting my first batch of Australian lager but I had a problem with the hydrometer reading it finished at 0.14 and I know it should go down to 0.08 it was at 0.14 for about three days and I was wondering if you have any idea what could cause this. love the videos by the way there so helpful. cheers mate.
Great job Craig, I just brewed a Brewers best american amber, maybe next ill try this coopers with hopps
Couldn't catch the cast with my swing shift job darnit. Will watch Optomod's highlights!!Rock-N-Roll brother!!!!
I like it! Easy and looks good!
Awesome technique! I think the dextrose would be better than more DME or LME. It helps keep the beer a little drier, helping to emphasize the hops. The ever famous Pliny the Elder uses Dextrose to dry the beer out, among other great IPA's. Great video; only bad part was when it ended. ;-)
New to brewwing and trying the coopers IPA. Very good video but have one question. You wash the can in steriliser then clean the lid in the wort. Will the remaining steriliser not kill all the yeast? I need a tip on the process between sterlising bottles and bottling please. Do I rinse the sterlilised bottles, warm tap water or does that just recontaminated them? Or do I pour beer into the bottles after the sterliser has been poured out? Or is the alternative a 70 deg C dishwasher with no dishwasher tablet?
I did a Simcoe&Amarillo Hopped IPA AG that I finally got to keg this morning after almost 4 weeks primary and 2 weeks dry hopped in secondary with 1 oz of each. TASTE AWESOME 16.4brix OG and 6brix FG which calculates to .0999 when adjusting for alcohol. BIG BEER AGAIN WOOHOO !!!! I'll send you a bottle Craig 9.1%abv
great vid, im about to do this, but im going to do a mini mash with maris otter and cascade hops, hope it turns out as nice as yours cheers andy.
Have you tried the brew 'a' recipe on coopers strong section? Brewing it at the moment and curious on taste. Thanks
Thanks Craig. sure looks easy to me. cheers 17
~~ ready to make my second batch ~~ my first batch if lagaring.
Just subscribed and like on the basis of your epic intro. I respect what you are doing. I know I've seen your videos before, but damn! Good job!
Great Video mate.! Thanks from the U.K.
How long do I leave the beer mash in the bucket for? How many days? Thanks great video!
Brilliant work *****. Im going to copy this but with a different IPA kit (bulldog) but use the cascade pellets and dry malt extract. I had a question though. What do you thinks best to prime this when it goes in the keg? All the best! Alex
gday craig love your channel and have been viewing it for a couple of years, you have helped me in so many ways to improve my brews, i am still using and loving the coopers extract cans and can't see a reason to change, i am from downunder in Australia so with a few simple calculations from pound to kilo and farenheight to celcius it works out well, i love your work mate and the way you simplify everything whilst you clarify, my question or favor i would love to see is it possible to show a method using lemons or citrus fruit in a brew? regards ivan
im quite new to brewing and rushed my first kit so its pretty poor but drinkable. Have the canadian blonde in fermenter and the IPA to go next, just wondered if you think it will go well wth 1kg brew sugar and 500g malt?
Hi Craig. Have you ever used whirlfloc tablets in a coopers kit? Is it needed and if so then at what stage would you add it?
Thx Craig... All the best
Hi Craig just wondering if this brew could be made using the coopers diy kit.
New version
Hi Craig, When this is done fermenting and ready for bottling, do you have to add priming sugar... or was the one you added at the beginning with the dry malt extract enough?
Your videos rock, I enjoy them lots. Thank you for your efforts. That being said, I would ask you that were you being frugal, which DIY home brew kit would you buy? I'm 53, am an avid creator of sorts...a woodworker that is, and want to try my hand at brewing some of my favorite brews, porters and stouts mainly. I would like to buy for longevity, yet ease of use as well. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks much and Cheers!
Nice job Craig now how long does that sit in the fermenter thingy? 7 days? then 7 more for the fizzy. preciate ya man.
wouldnt that be too " warm " now for a correct gravity reading ?
I've tried dry-hopping when the fermentation finished, didn't weigh my hop bag down so I'm not too impressed with the taste. Looking forward to trying this method instead! Do you dry hop it as well? Great video!
I don't have dextrose but I do have 1KG of beer enhancer. Could I use that instead of the dextros/dme mix?
Nice to see how you add the hops, Ill try that next time with pellets..
I use to kickstart my yeast with 0,2 deciliter 20 celsius water in a sanitised shaker, then I mix the yeasted water to the beer. I feel that give a better mix to the beer with water.
FINALLY!! someone else that dips the tops of cans in sanatizer...whenever i buy juice in a can to make a small batch of wine i wipe the top and dip it before introducing it to my can opener
i have been made fun of/poked fun of for repeatedly for doin that :D
Hi Craig.
Do you know the difference between the Coopers Brew A IPA kit and the Coopers IPA kit ?
Love your channel. its better then TV. in Ireland Anyway :-)
I can get any Standard Coopers... I can only get the Brew A type !
Thanks Tony
This will be my next batch but some more Cascade I think and a bit less Dextrose :) Thank you, always good stuff here!
hi craig I will be bottling my ipa with 1oz of pellet cascade hops but both times I did hyrometre reading there was a lot of hops floating around as I said I made it to a T the same as u did so is this normal? and will the beer have floating hops in it after secondary or will it settle to bottom of bottles? pls answer as it has me worried!
Made this last week. Followed exactly how you did it but the colour is way different?
Mine is very light? Yours looks nice and dark? Any idea why so different please?
good stuff mate - cheers
hi can i replace the dextrose with 500g-700g of coopers brew enhancer 2?
thanks craig, love your video's.
i enjoyed your video, funny and informative
Awesome video Craig, ~Cheers~ B.Champagne
Hi Craig
Can i ask do you still brew this beer, is it still one of your favorite or not
Thanks
Never dry hopped before. Interested in what you have to say about it. Maybe i will have to give it a try on my next batch.
Why do you add extra dextrose, does the brew enhancer not have enough in it?