Fresh3 - Sour Batch Kids - Sour Ale (Fresh Wort Kit)

This Fresh³ [Fresh Cubed] Fresh Wort Kit as a New World Berliner Weisse that packs a puckering punch at 5.1%.

Berliner Weisses were generally low alcohol by volume due to the traditional technique of souring using a cocktail of Lactobacillus Strains.
The main two reasons were:
1. Souring Bacteria like Lactobacillus don't like strong starting gravity beers. So the beers were generally 3% a good hot summer day kind of beer, but not quite punchy.
2. Any addition of hops usually over 10 IBU would inhibit and sometimes kill the souring bacteria, so you could never have a balanced hoppy sour.

But nowadays, with Sour IPA's coming out left and right, Flavoured Sour Milkshake something-er-others, Sour anything, we can make anything that we want with less effort and stress on infecting equipment with a bacteria that has been known to be hard to get out of fermenters / brewing equipment when using Philly Sour Yeast. There are of course other ways to sour, like mash souring. But as this is a versatile FWK we want it to be up to you how strong/sour it is. So use the Dextrose or Not! We like the extra sourness it creates. Or if you have extra hops floating about that, chuck them in to make a Hopped Sour Bright Ale...or whatever you want to call it!

Because we want it sour we kit this recipe with 2 x Packets of Lallemand Philly Sour Yeast. If you don't want it as sour you can either omit the Dextrose, or ferment at the lower temperature ranges. 

Every Fresh³ Full Recipe Kit includes yeast and hops (when required). Full instructions are provided - see the Product Download tab below.

We do this to ensure that you get a tried and proven recipe that we very much enjoy and want to share with you!

Fresh3 is for the brewing time poor with other commitments, newbie brewers who haven't invested in brewing hardware, or for the lovers of pre-fermented beer (wort) to ferment out and keg. Knowing full well that it is so much cheaper than if you were to buy ready-made beer from the bottle-o.

We would normally liken fresh wort kit fermenting to building furniture from IKEA, you didn't make the table and chairs or bedframe from scratch. But bloody hell you were proud you assembled it with minimal swearing at an instruction booklet because you maybe skipped ahead without noticing. But in this case, you'll be drinking that achievement in a week or two and sharing it with your friends or family. We'd take that overpaying tens if not hundreds more for pre-made stuff. (No Allen keys necessary)

Being a company that specialises in home brewing and short draw draught systems (Kegerators), we have designed these recipe kits around kegging within a fridge as the end result. You of course can bottle/can or keg condition most of the recipes, but please note they may turn out differently from what we have crafted them to be.

Specifications:
F³WK HDPE Bag Volume: 15L +-0.1L
Add 8L of potable (preferably pre-boiled) water. 
Total Volume: 23L
SG Range: 1.046 +-0.003
Est. FG 1.007
Around 5.1% ABV

Ingredients:
70% Gladfield - Pilsner
10% Gladfield - Gladiator
10% Gladfield - Wheat
10% Gladfield - Toffee
Magnum, Eclipse

Use this link for the RAPT Profile: Lallemand Philly Sour Wild Brew Yeast