Festival World Beer Kits: Belgian Doubbel

[Damfoose]

Been a while since I visited, still in a shared house and I need to make a new AG brewery again.

Any way onto the cool sort of stuff as I have a fermenter and a plastic barrel to dispense with decided to brush off the old skills.

Grabbed one of these from Leyland home brew Festival World Beer Kit Belgian Doubbel says its a 7.2 if I hit that I will be lucky. Followed the usual instructions clean and sanitize everything. Warmed the 2 ali/plastic bags of wort to make it easier to pour out dumped it in the fermenter the boiled 2 kettles of water to get the last bits from the bags in with 4 bottles of tesco ashbeck water ( cant use the tap water at the moment ) and checked the temp after a really good aireate darn thing is sat at 30c so I have emptied the fridge of what it had in it and stuffed it in their to bring the temp down to a nice 22c so I can pitch the yeast cant drop the temp any other way as my room is a steady 25c. Have hit the 1.065 mark so full fermentation should give the advertised 7.2% beer.

This is one of the newer kits it comes with the following 3.4 KG of wort, bag of dextrose, smaller priming bag of sugar, small filter bag, 28 grams of Belgian Dubbel hop pellets and lastly 20g Belgian Ale yeast. So not an insubstantial kit really seeing as you usually get 2 tins of wort and yeast. Now the hop pellets are to be chucked into the fermenter after 5 days, Instructions say after a further 5 days in a new fermenter add the secondary sugar packet and transfer for secondary fermentation then leave for a further 14 days giving a total of 24 days for the fermentation to take place.

As my temp was 30c I am currently waiting for the temp to drop will then pitch and wait.

Will update as time goes on.

No pics on this one

[Pinto]

Nice to see you getting back into the saddle - life often gets in the way of good brewing

With your can-do attitude, I can see you getting your grain back on in short order

[Damfoose]

Fridge got it to 22c yeast pitched now the wait these things cant be rushed.

[Pinto]

Checked on my Youngs pilsner tonite - 24 hours in and its going great guns with a 2" thick krausen in the FV, Galaxy laden scents from the airlock.... Looking forwards to getting amongst it