Description

Festival Belgian Pale Ale

Festival Belgian Pale Ale is a high-quality premium 3kg beer kit. The box includes everything you need to brew a superb pale ale, except water. It pours pale gold with a white, fluffy head.  It delivers rich malt sweetness and a spicy yeast character for a refreshing, satisfying ale.
Styrian Goldings hops add spicy aromas with clove and banana notes, balancing the malt sweetness.

The kit includes a 28g sachet of hop pellets for background hop aroma. It also includes a 150g sachet of priming sugar for proper bottle or barrel conditioning.

Hop bitterness of the Belgian Pale Ale is 2.5 (on a scale of 1-5). The kit produces a target alcohol content of 5.5% ABV (approx). The Festival Belgian Pale Ale kit contains high-quality ingredients and easy to follow step-by-step instructions. Each kit makes 40 pints of premium ale.

What is Belgian Pale Ale?

Belgian pale ale has existed in various forms since the mid-1700s. However, pale ale gained popularity during the rise of German light beers. Belgian brewers chose the palest malts available for brewing pale ale. They used Czech, Slovenian, and German hops for balance and aroma. However, they kept traditional Belgian ale yeast strains for fermentation.

As a result, Belgian yeast produces fruity esters with pear and orange notes. It also creates peppery phenols that define classic Belgian beer character.

Belgian pale ales are clear amber to light copper colour. They have a thick head which clings to the glass. Malt flavours are toasty to biscuit-like and quite distinctive. They usually have some fruit character, though not on the same level as other Belgian ales. Fruit often presents itself with orange or pear characters. Hop profiles are low to mid-range, usually mild, with floral or spicy notes that complement the peppery/spicy yeast phenols.

What’s included?

• 3kg Premium Liquid Malt Extract, Barley Extract ( Gluten)
• 20g Genuine Brewer’s Belgian Ale Yeast Sachet
• 28g Hop Pellets Addition: Styrian, Goldings
• 500g Dextrose Brewing Sugar
• 150g Priming Sugar

            Allergy Advice: Includes barley and other cereals, containing gluten

Specifications

• Kit weight: 3.6kg
• Makes: 40 pints / 5 gallons
• ABV Approx: 5.5%
• Target Finishing Gravity: 1.008 (approx)
• Fermentation time: 7 days (approx)
• Conditioning time: 4 weeks

What equipment do you need?

Basic beer making equipment (5g fermenter, airlock, syphon tube with sediment trap, hydrometer, Suresan sanitiser, bottles or barrel). These are available under the starter kit section on this website.

Food Pairing

In general terms, a light ale goes best with chicken or fish dishes and darker beers for richer dining. Light, white meat entrees, like roasted lemon rosemary chicken, and desserts are best with this beer. Don’t pair it with steak or sausage; the crisp, fruity flavour would probably clash.

Tips

We strongly recommend using Pure Brew with this kit to achieve commercial-quality beer. Pure Brew acts as a professional beer enhancer and improves fermentation performance. It feeds yeast essential nutrients and supports strong fermentation, even in low oxygen conditions. Additionally, it treats brewing water and removes chlorine and chloramine. These compounds can cause unwanted “homebrew” flavours in the finished beer. Brewing water quality plays a key role in final beer quality. However, many homebrewers often overlook this important factor. Pure Brew helps you easily condition water and improve fermentation results.

Furthermore, beer finings improve clarity and final presentation. Harris Beer Brite clears beer quickly and helps sediment settle at the bottom. This works especially well for bottles and barrels after fermentation. If you use Corny Kegs, clear the beer as much as possible before kegging. Finings help sediment and haze particles drop out more efficiently before packaging. Harris Starbrite provides a highly effective vegan-friendly fining option. As a result, homebrewers achieve clearer, better-looking, and better-tasting beer.