| I've made quite many beers from Cooper's kits, and all of them have started
bubbling after approximately 12 hours. So maybe the yeast in the kit was in
bad shape since it was rather old.
Anyways the instructions in Cooper's kits are OK as long as you remember to
do two things that aren't mentioned: aerate the wort and rehydrate the yeast. These are two very important basic things missing from many many many
beer kits' instructions. Sad but true...
Boiling the wort in these kits isn't necessary, and it won't improve the taste
one bit (it might even make it worse), you're just doing unnecessary extra
work.
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