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Last week when I took a gravity reading of my Coopers Sparkling Ale and noticed that it had a gravity reading of 1.010 for the 3rd consecutive day I knew it was time to bottle.

Below is a glass of my first brew using the new Coopers DIY kit along with the hydrometer tube filled with the Sparkling Ale.



I made the Sparkling Ale with the Cooper Sparkling Ale kit, 1.5kg of Coopers Light Malt Extract, 500 grams of Coopers Dry Malt Extract, and 500 grams of dextrose. The yeast used was the yeast that I harvested from the commercial Coopers Pale Ale bottles. You can check out the procedure for this here. I also through in the yeast that came with the Sparkling Ale kit for good measure. The original gravity for the beer was 1.063

I used the Coopers PET bottles and some glass bottles that I had. I put the fermenter on the kitchen counter and opened the dishwasher door for easy cleanup.



Notice the lacing left behind in the fermenter while I was bottling.



After bottling was complete, I saved some of the yeast slurry to use in my next brew, the Coopers Australian Pale Ale.



I am only going to use the slurry from the Erlenmeyer flask next to the Coopers Australian Pale Ale kit.