
Festival World Belgian Pale Ale brings Belgian brewing character home: rich malt sweetness with spicy yeast notes of clove and banana. It makes 23 litres (40 pints) at around 5.5% ABV, all malt with no sugar required.
Tasting notes
- Pale yellow in colour
- Aroma: spicy cloves and banana over sweet malt
- Taste: refreshing and satisfying, with rich malt sweetness
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
For drinkers who like a fruity, spicy continental pale ale. Part of the Festival World Beers, alongside World Belgian Dubbel and World German Weiss. See the Festival Beer Kits range.