everyone but you knows it's owned by the brewing companies. It's old name was The Brewers Retail.For the longest time I thought the Beer Store was owned b y the government...hence the stupid prices...turns out its owned by multi-national companies like anheuser busch, sapporo and some other foreign company...its kinda ridiculous.
and they have the nerve to charge me .5 cents for a fricking bag for my beers.
I used to make my own,
Just add your boiled water and hops and enough dextrose [3lbs] to make 8% lager beer.
I always found the coopers beer kits to be subpar. I'm not trying to diss your brand...just trying to help. What I found was the malt concentrates I tried from Coopers were hopped...meaning, the hops weren't as fresh and the beer wasn't as flavorful as if you'd used un-hopped malt and ordered your own hops to add.... It's kind of like the difference between a fresh cup of coffee and a stale cup of coffee....both are coffee, but the stale cup loses a lot of flavor. Hard to place what changes, but it's obvious in the finished product.I used to make my own,
Just add your boiled water and hops and enough dextrose [3lbs] to make 8% lager beer.
i just got a headache thinking about how bad that beer tasted....i'm enjoying a carling ice right now
Cheap beer is not literally "watered down" so much as not "brewed up."
Think of it like you might think of coffee. First, the ingredients matter. GIGO: Garbage in, garbage out. And then, beer is brewed. Brewing is a process. Good beer uses premium hops and malt and grains and such, commodity beer doesn't. And, with commodity beer, shortcuts and outright BS are taken in the brewing process. Think of the egregiously disgusting ICE beers. Ugh.
Anyway, in order to save the corporation brewing it pennies on each . . . can . . . crap materials and a hurried, cheap-ass process are used.
The result? This BUD's for YOU!
It's beer. Not meant to be overthought....but here's a chart that shows some of the brands and their parent companies. Pick one that fits your budget that you like to drink....or go with something local...or make your own.I like you Scarpozi. you explained it to me in simple layman terms.
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Hey, without yeast, you're just going to have a nauseating, sweet bitter beer with all of that glucose/dextrose and nothing to process it. ....and why no malt? yuck...
I used to make my own,
Just add your boiled water and hops and enough dextrose [3lbs] to make 8% lager beer.
get in here beer snobs. The discussion is only starting.
Well there are some cheap beers that are good and some expensive beers that are bad. I guess its personal preference. IPAs are usually expensive but a lot of people think they are too bitter.
that's standard around here, but then MD is the shittiest place for alcohol that I have ever experienced. Everything is needlessly expensive because distribution is so limited.
OP should just stick to weed.
Hey dumb-ass it's oblivious you never made beer before!!!!
Most people who make their own beer know that the Coopers Lager "KIT" is the malt concentrate with the yeast included in a separate package.
You added the yeast after your boiled ingredients have cooled down, otherwise you will kill the yeast.
I mentioned Hamms earlier. Has anyone else tried it? My local stores started selling it....it's a dollar cheaper than PBR and in the style of Miller Light (Milwaukee Style lager). I've been drinking it because, like PBR it comes in 6 of tallboys under $6....which is cheap for here. You don't get good discounts on beer until you buy 18-24 packs. I don't want that much beer in my fridge because my wife tends to drink more of it and I'm trying to keep her ass skinny (it really looks good these days)Hey I rarely drink but I still enjoy a PBR now and then.
I always found the coopers beer kits to be subpar. I'm not trying to diss your brand...just trying to help. What I found was the malt concentrates I tried from Coopers were hopped...meaning, the hops weren't as fresh and the beer wasn't as flavorful as if you'd used un-hopped malt and ordered your own hops to add.... It's kind of like the difference between a fresh cup of coffee and a stale cup of coffee....both are coffee, but the stale cup loses a lot of flavor. Hard to place what changes, but it's obvious in the finished product.
If I were going with LME (liquid malt extract), you can find a few shops that carry different light ones that may work good. I prefer german hallertaur hops for bittering (1oz per 5 gallons) and then tettnanger 1oz for aroma at the end. I typically stuck to those hops unless I wanted more acidity, then I might throw centennials at the end for more grapefruit aroma. It's something to play with if you still brew. I'm about 6 years out of practice because I had kids, but I'm getting back into it soon when I get more time and can hide my processes from my wife.
Use to make my own beer and some of the batches were damn good, but it was a lot of work espcialy the sanitation part. And then I started drinking white russians.
I mentioned Hamms earlier. Has anyone else tried it? My local stores started selling it....it's a dollar cheaper than PBR and in the style of Miller Light (Milwaukee Style lager). I've been drinking it because, like PBR it comes in 6 of tallboys under $6....which is cheap for here. You don't get good discounts on beer until you buy 18-24 packs. I don't want that much beer in my fridge because my wife tends to drink more of it and I'm trying to keep her ass skinny (it really looks good these days)
there are a lot of additives in cheaper beer or adjuncts as they are called.
beer requires high quality ingredients to make great beer. Water, hops, yeast, malt etc... needs to high quality not to mention their equipment needs to be good, too.
I mentioned Hamms earlier. Has anyone else tried it? My local stores started selling it....it's a dollar cheaper than PBR and in the style of Miller Light (Milwaukee Style lager). I've been drinking it because, like PBR it comes in 6 of tallboys under $6....which is cheap for here. You don't get good discounts on beer until you buy 18-24 packs. I don't want that much beer in my fridge because my wife tends to drink more of it and I'm trying to keep her ass skinny (it really looks good these days)
Well I made beers pretty regularly for about 3 or 4 years. ...I am a biologist, mang. I am not familiar with what is in a "Cooper's kit," so the terms were strange to me: Dextrose is simply another word for Glucose. It isn't anything more than that (we keep it in the lab here, for making live cell media). So, what you're calling Dextrose really isn't dextrose. it's clearly something else.
I wasn't being jerky, or meaning to be. Just confused with how you were making beer without malt or yeast. I was even trying to be extra polite by going with the big bold words because I know you have eye issues.
my drunken thoughts will be about your wife's fine ass. I need this.