Martin's Belgian Dark Strong Ale Recipe Kit

Martin's Belgian Dark Strong Ale Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Belgian Dark Strong 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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Make pub-style beer at home any weekend you like. This Belgian Dark Strong Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew

Make pub-style beer at home any weekend you like. This Belgian Dark Strong Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Belgian Dark Strong Ale, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

The Belgian dark strong ale is the heavyweight of the abbey lineup, the class that includes Rochefort 10, St. Bernardus Abt 12, and the near-mythical Westvleteren 12. These beers push past ten percent while staying, somehow, drinkable, hiding the alcohol inside layers of dark fruit.

Look for fig, date, raisin, and dark bread, with dark candi syrup driving both the deep color and the plummy sweetness that a dry finish keeps in check. This version folds in a little honey alongside the malt. It is a beer to pour into a snifter and sit with, and it is better after some months in the bottle.

What's In The Kit

Your Belgian Dark Strong Ale recipe kit includes everything below, portioned and ready to brew. All you add is water.

Fermentables

  • 12 lbs · Pilsner; Belgian
  • 3 lbs · Munich Malt
  • 8.0 oz · Aromatic Malt
  • 8.0 oz · Special B
  • 1 lbs · Candi Syrup; D-90
  • 1 lbs · Honey

Hops

  • 1.5 oz · Styrian Goldings (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · Styrian Goldings (Boil, 0.0 min)

Yeast

  • 2 packets · Abbey Ale (White Labs WLP530) → we include SafAle BE-256 (Belgian Abbey)

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

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.091 SG 		Final Gravity
1.014 SG 		ABV
10.1 % 		Bitterness
21.2 IBUs 		Color
13.5 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle BE-256 (Belgian Abbey) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Abbey Ale (White Labs WLP530).

  • 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 Belgian Dark Strong 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