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Coopers Dark Ale Home Brew Extract Can Kit 1.7kg

Coopers Original Dark Ale

$18.95 - $18.95
$18.95
$18.95 - $18.95
$18.95

Embrace the dark side - full bodied ale with roasted confidence.

Coopers Original Dark Ale delivers full bodied dark beer character with roasted malt complexity that makes light lagers look boring. This is dark ale with depth and swagger. Smooth, flavourful, unapologetically dark.

Perfect for brewers who want something richer without going full stout territory. Your fermenter can handle the darkness.

Brew it and watch light beer drinkers get curious.

How much beer does it make? 21 litres (about 56 stubbies or 44 schooners)

Beer You Will Get:

  • Colour: Deep mahogany
  • Body: Full with roasted malt
  • ABV: Around 4.5-5%
  • Best served: Cool (8-10°C)

Brew it as it is, or try our Chippendale Dark Recipe - to  brew a beer in the style of Tooths Old. 

Brewing Instructions

  • Clean your gear. Sanitise everything like your beer depends on it... because it does!
  • Pour 2L of boiling water into fermenter. Soften your extract can in hot water (10 mins), then empty into fermenter.
  • Add your fermentables (about 1kg). Stir until dissolved 
  • Top up to fermenter with water 23L mark. Boom! You've made wort!
  • Cool wort to 18-22°C. Take gravity reading.
  • Sprinkle yeast over wort.
  • Cover, add airlock, and place in dark spot (18-22°C). If adding hops, dry hop (chuck 'em in) on day 4.
  • After 5 days, check gravity. Take gravity readings on consecutive days. If they're identical and under 1.016, you're good to go!
  • Bottle or keg. Add carbonation drops or sugar when bottling. Wait 4 weeks (best at 3 months) or keg it for faster gratification.
  • You're officially a beer wizard! Drink & Brag.
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