Description

Ruby Cascade Ale – 6% ABV

his striking ruby ale delivers a bold malt backbone of caramel and biscuit, balanced by a vibrant dry hop of Cascade for bright grapefruit, floral, and subtle pine notes. Fermented with a unique, highly adaptable yeast strain, this ale thrives at temperatures between 20°C and 40°C—without the need for temperature control. Unlike traditional brewing yeasts, it handles wide fluctuations with ease, making it ideal for more flexible summertime, energy-efficient brewing. The result is a flavourful ale with a smooth finish and zero compromise on quality.

Fresh Wort Kits are an amazing way to produce commercial quality beer at home with basic equipment. No experience of home brewing is required, simply follow the instructional videos and share awesome beer with your friends and family.

Unlike traditional beer kits that are made from malt extract, our Fresh Wort Kits are produced in a professional brew house into bag in a box style packaging. This means all the fresh flavours the team at the brewery magic into their wort are available for our customers to then complete the brewing process at home.

Simply pour the Fresh Wort Kit into a fermenter, top up to 20ltrs and add the yeast. Commercial beer at home with ease.

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Ingredients Included

Cascade – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets – 100g (1 pack)
WHC Dried Yeast – Mango Madness – 11g Packet (1 pack)
Fresh Wort – Base 5 – Amber (1 pack)

Also included:

1 x Hop Sock

1 x Single Dose Brausol finings

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Method

Beer Style (main): American Ales
Beer Style (sub): American-Style Amber/Red Ale
Batch Size: 20
Original Gravity: 1.060
Final Gravity: 1.012
ABV %: 6.3
IBU: 26

Brewing equipment: Fresh Wort – fermenter only needed

Process:

Fresh wort kit brewing is the way to easily make your own beer at home without all the brewing time and costly equipment.

Ensure your fermenter is clean and sanitised, add the wort into your fermenter. Add water into the wort bag to rinse out and top up the fermenter to 23ltrs. Then add your yeast which is included and place in a warmish place where it will be at the instructions temperature.

Yeast: WHC Dried Yeast – Mango Madness – 11g Packet (1 pack)

Fermentation temperature/steps: Pitch yeast at 20-37°C, allow for primary fermentation to take place, approximately 4 -6 days, the higher the temperature the quicker fermentation will take place. To check if your beer has finished fermenting take a sample and measure with a Hydrometer. After this, cool to 14c (soft crash), remove the yeast slurry if you are able to and then move on to dry hop.

Secondary additions:

Add 100g Cascade Dry Hops at the end of fermentation, ideally dry hop at 14c. Allow for 72 hours contact time with the hops before cold crashing to 4c. Once at cold crash, allow to sit for 3-4 days before adding your dose of brausol – leave to stand for a further 2 days before packaging – check the clarity of the beer before packaging, as it may need a day or two more to fully clear.

If you have a fermenter capable of dumping yeast and hops, remove the yeast once the beer hits the 14c soft crash point and also remove the hops from the FV after the 72 hour contact period before cold crashing. Equally, if you wish to get more from your dry hop addition and have the ability to bubble CO2 through the bottom of your fermenter, this can be done 24 hours after adding your dry hop addition and will push the hops back up into the beer to gain more extraction from them.

Once the beer is clear it’s time to package, this can be either into a keg or bottles. If using bottles don’t forget to add sugar to the bottles, you can calculate the amount you need using our online calculator, if you are carbonating using sugar you will need to keep the packaged beer somewhere warm again so that the yeast eats the sugar and produces the carbon dioxide.

The next step is condition your beers, this means you need to place them somewhere cold for a period time, a week minimum, 4 weeks would be great if you can wait that long.

Then its time to drink and enjoy your home brewed beer, cheers!!

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