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Just to finish this thread, the experiment worked well. Mangrove Jack's pale plus pure LME plus 500g dextrose. Added 2x 10g packs of Belgian ale yeast M41. 1.051 OG, 1.006 FG, ABV 5.9%. Tastes almost identical to the Festival version.

Had the same issue with my Festival Belgian dubbel. No airlock activity. Pushed hard on the lid progressively all the way round until I heard the click. They can be very tight to get on and off. Within an hour of snapping the lid on properly the airlock was going nuts!

Thanks for this again. Just to check, I need sufficient malt extract to make up to 2.9Kg to 3KG? A lot of the single can kits are only 1.5KG but make 23 litres, yet the festival kits contain 3Kg of extract and you add 500g of dextrose to make 23L (or 18L in the case of the Belgian Dubbel). Does...

P.S. I have found that Mangrove Jack M31 which is a Belgian Tripel yeast so that sounds ideal.

Thank you so much for this helpful reply. I haven't ventured into trying to adapt things and this may well be the time to try that. (I did find the Festival Pale Ale elsewhere incidentally. It says it's in stock but I just end up with an apologetic email back and a refund!) Anyway, do you have...

New to the forum and fairly new to brewing. I have made two batches of the Festival Belgian Pale Ale and it just goes in our house because we love it! Now seems to be out of stock everywhere. I have had some recommendations for other types e.g. Muntons, but they are all very, very strong. I am...