Brewing a Dawson's Kriek lambic kit

[schweitzer22]

Hey guys been on the forums for a long time, first post. I decided I wanted to try a Dawson's Kriek lambic kit. I've seen a lot of good reviews but a lot of different ways to brew it. It seems like some people follow the directions given and others don't. My question was, do I need to rack into a secondary after two weeks? The directions say to add the puree and rack on top of that. I was wondering if after two weeks if I could just add the puree to the primary and let it just sit 9-12 months. Also if I'm using a 6.5 gallon carboy do I need a blow off hose for this. I just mopped my ceiling from an imperial and don't want these beasties getting everywhere. Thanks peeps.

[brewinhard]

What yeast/blend does it come with? If you add the puree directly to the primary after a few weeks the saccharomyces in the yeast blend could completely ferment out the added fruit sugars not allowing the brett and bacteria to have a turn. This is a case where you want the wild ones to do their work on any remaining sugars to increase the sourness/acidity/funk in the beer.

I would proabably let the beer sit in primary for about 3-4 weeks, then rack the beer on top of the puree into a carboy. At this point, I would also add some boiled/cooled maltodextrin (sacch. yeast cannot consume this sugar) to the secondary as well which will give the bugs/brett some extra residual fermentables plus the puree to work on and sour your beer. Good luck and most of all, be patient with this style of beer.