4 Dog Brewery

Festa Brew English Pale Ale It wasn't that pale in colour. Around 6 SRM and tasted great. This will be served on beer gas. O.G. - 1.052 F.G. -  1.012 % -      5.3 SRM - 6 - 7 BU - 25 Nottingham ( 1 ) US-05 - ( 2 sachets ) FTBS I hope using Nottingham and US-05 at the same time didn't ruin this beer. Lots of pro breweries blend yeast so I think not. Going good around 4-5 hours from sprinkling the yeast in. I will use liquid yeast next for any Festa Brew - 1968 ESB. Seemed to be okay so far.

Festa Brew West Coast IPA My first time with this kit in 10 years. Wort smelled great, a nice bronze colour. I couldn't get all of the wort in my new PET carboys. You need some head space for O2 aeration and blow off. I lost about 1 1/2 L of wort. O.G. - 1.060 F.G. -  1.014 % -      6 SRM - 12 - 14 BU - 42 3 sachets of US-05 FTBS I used 3 sachets of US-05 since they all were near the end of their BB. The US-05 that came with the kit was out of date. I need to contact Magnotta with my concerns on their old yeast. If I continue to use these kits I will use liquid yeast as I will get a better product with fresh yeast. Going good the next morning. I had to use 2 drops of fermcap in each carboy to get the foam down.Taste is fine. A little too much crystal malt for me as I made this with crystal 60 and it was too grainy. Still, for the ease of putting it all together, fine, I like it. I will buy it again because I have to use up my 11 lbs. of Tettnan...