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Festival Suffolk Strong Ale
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This kit needs no added sugar. Sanitise your fermenter, equipment and bottles first with ChemSan no-rinse sanitiser.
Festival Suffolk Strong Ale is a strong ale kit with a woody character, good dryness and well-balanced bitterness. Brewed with Boadicea hops, it makes 23 litres (40 pints) at around 5.3% ABV, with no added sugar needed.
New to home brewing? Get this kit as a complete starter kit.
Add a 25 litre fermenter with tap, bottling wand, airlock, hydrometer and sanitiser and it becomes our Festival Beer Making Starter Kit – all you need to add is bottles. Includes a step-by-step guide.
Get the starter kit – £53.99Tasting notes
- Aroma: vinous, with hints of wood and vanilla
- Palate: woody, dry and well balanced
- Bitterness: balanced rather than harsh
What's in the box
- Liquid malt extract - no added sugar needed
- A genuine brewer's yeast strain
- Hop pellets, added partway through fermentation for fresh aroma
- Priming sugar for bottling
How to brew
Mix the malt extract with water in your fermenter, top up to 23 litres, pitch the yeast and add the hop pellets halfway through fermentation, following the kit's step-by-step instructions. Fermentation takes around a week before bottling or kegging.
You'll also need
- 25 Litre Fermentation Vessel with Tap and an airlock
- Wine & Beer Hydrometer - to check fermentation has finished
- ChemSan - no-rinse sanitiser for everything that touches the beer
- Bottles with crown caps and a capper, or a King Keg pressure barrel
A warming ale for autumn and winter; strong ales like this reward a longer spell conditioning in the bottle. See the Festival Beer Kits range.