Description

Festival Pride of London Porter Kit

Festival Pride of London Porter is a high-quality premium 3kg beer kit. Everything you need to brew a superb Porter is included in the box (except water).  Festival Pride of London Porter has a perfect hop bitterness balanced with the smooth character of the chocolate and roasted malts. It has a dark chocolate and coffee aroma, with a slightly spicy herbal note to the character. This Festival beer kit results in a dark brown/black colour with a tan coloured head.

Includes a 50g sachet of Target hop pellets to achieve a stunning hop aroma and a 90g sachet of priming sugar is provided to ensure bottles or barrels are properly conditioned.

Hop bitterness of the Pride of London Porter is 3.5 (on a scale of 1-5). The kit produces a target alcohol content of 5.2% ABV (approx)

What is Porter?

Porter almost disappeared completely from the British Isles in the early 1970s when Guinness stopped brewing Porter. It started to re-appear in the late 1970s and since then the style has made a  comeback, with beers such as Fullers London Porter gaining popularity. Lately, craft beers have been focusing on Porters and there are some interesting variations coming through, such as Chocolate and Coffee Porters.

Modern English porters come in two styles: Brown and Robust. Brown Porter is more malty than hoppy, with flavours like bittersweet chocolate, caramel, or toffee, without any significant quantity of roasted barley (the malt that gives stout its coffee depth). A Brown Porter is a weightier Brown Ale. Robust Porter is more intense, as a result of roasted and/or black patent malt, sometimes with a punchy hop deck. It is a closer cousin to stout.

What’s included?

• 3kg Premium Liquid Malt Extract
• Genuine Brewer’s Yeast Strains
• Hop Pellets Addition
• 650g Dextrose Brewing Sugar
• 50g Priming Sugar

        Allergy Advice: May include barley and other cereals, containing gluten

Specifications

• Makes: 40 pints / 5 gallons
• ABV Approx: 5.2%
• Finishing Gravity Approx: 1.009
• 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

For intense dishes like Roast Beef and Lamb Casseroles, Porter is a great addition, especially for slow-cooked stews.

Tips

We strongly recommend using Pure Brew with this kit in order to achieve a commercial quality. Pure Brew is a professional beer enhancer. It feeds the yeast with essential nutrients, which supercharge the fermentation and support yeast development (even in limited oxygen conditions). Additionally, Pure Brew treats brewing water, eliminating problems caused by Chlorine and Chloramine, which can create a medicinal or, as it is sometimes referred to, a “homebrew” taste. Achieving optimum results in brewing critically depends on the condition of brewing water, but this important area is often overlooked. By using Pure Brew, you can effectively and easily condition brewing water, and maximise effective fermentation.

The addition of beer finings will improve the final quality of your beer. Finings such as Harris Beer Brite will help your beer to clear quickly and the sediment will be more likely to stay at the bottom of bottles or barrels. If you are using Corny Kegs then it is important to clear the beer as much as possible before kegging. Beer Finings will promote a faster and more efficient fall out of sediment and haze particles prior to kegging. Harris Starbrite is a highly effective vegan-friendly beer fining, which is rapidly becoming a firm favourite with home brewers.