Martin's American Brown Ale Recipe Kit

Martin's American Brown Ale Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style American Brown Ale, one of the 99 beers Martin Keen brewed during his Homebrew Challenge.
  • Every fermentable, hop, and yeast portioned and matched to the recipe, so there is no math and no guesswork on brew day.
  • Sized for a 5-gallon batch and ready for all-grain or brew-in-a-bag, so it works with whatever homebrew gear you already own.
  • Fresh ingredients, shipped fast, so your brew day starts with the good stuff.
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Brew a great beer at home, even if it is your very first. This American Brown Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you

Brew a great beer at home, even if it is your very first. This American Brown Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's American Brown Ale, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

The American Brown Ale took the malty English brown and gave it a hoppier, more assertive American accent. Homebrewers championed the style in the 1980s, Texas brewers especially, pushing the bitterness and hop aroma well past what an English brown would allow while keeping the nutty, chocolatey malt at its center.

It pours deep brown with cocoa, toasted bread, and caramel, and Special B adds a dark-fruit note underneath. Cascade and Willamette bring a citrus and spicy-earthy hop character that lifts the malt without burying it. At 5.6% it is an easygoing cool-weather beer that bridges the gap between pale ale and porter.

What's In The Kit

Your American Brown Ale recipe kit includes everything below, portioned and ready to brew. All you add is water.

Fermentables

  • 8 lbs · Pale Malt (2 Row) US
  • 1 lbs 8.0 oz · Amber Malt - MAKE MY OWN → we include Biscuit Malt
  • 1 lbs · Caramunich I (Weyermann) → we include Crystal 50
  • 8.0 oz · Special B
  • 4.0 oz · Chocolate Malt

Hops

  • 1 oz · Cascade (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Cascade (Boil, 5.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Willamette (Boil, 5.0 min)

Yeast

  • American Ale (Wyeast Labs 1056) → we include SafAle US-05 (American Ale)

Water treatment salts and any specialty extras are noted with the recipe.

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.054 SG 		Final Gravity
1.013 SG 		ABV
5.4 % 		Bitterness
35.0 IBUs 		Color
22.0 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Biscuit Malt in place of the recipe's Amber Malt - MAKE MY OWN; Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramunich I (Weyermann). We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle US-05 (American Ale) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's American Ale (Wyeast Labs 1056).

  • This kit is built for brew-in-a-bag (BIAB), the simplest way to make all-grain beer at home. The basic brew day looks like this:

    1. Heat your water and steep the milled grain to make wort.
    2. Boil the wort, adding the hops on the schedule in the recipe.
    3. Cool the wort down quickly, then transfer it to your fermenter.
    4. Pitch the yeast and let it ferment for about two weeks.
    5. Bottle or keg, wait for carbonation, then enjoy.

    That yields roughly 53 bottles of fresh American Brown Ale. It works great with our digital electric homebrew systems, which hold your temperatures for you, though any kettle and burner will do.

  • This is a recipe kit, so it includes the ingredients only. To brew it at home you will also need:

    • A brew kettle or an electric all-in-one brewing system
    • A grain bag for brew-in-a-bag (or a mash tun for a traditional mash)
    • A fermenter with an airlock
    • A thermometer and a way to chill the wort
    • Sanitizer, and bottles or a keg for packaging