Martin's Belgian Golden Strong Recipe Kit

Martin's Belgian Golden Strong Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Belgian Golden 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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Brew tasty beer at home with real, fresh ingredients. This Belgian Golden Strong Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew

Brew tasty beer at home with real, fresh ingredients. This Belgian Golden Strong Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Belgian Golden Strong, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

The Belgian golden strong ale is a modern style with a clear ancestor: Duvel, first brewed around the First World War and reworked into its pale form by the 1970s. The name Duvel earned (Flemish for "devil") suits the whole category. These beers pour a light, innocent gold and hide their strength behind it.

Expect a dry, bright body with spicy and pear-like fruit from the yeast, a soft bitterness, and a warmth that only shows up after a few sips. A portion of simple sugar thins the finish so the beer drinks far lighter than its gravity suggests. At around nine percent, this one sits squarely in that deceptive tradition.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 12 lbs · Pilsner; Belgian
  • 2 lbs · Corn Sugar (Dextrose)

Hops

  • 1 oz · Styrian Goldings (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Saaz (Boil, 15.0 min)

Yeast

  • Belgian Strong Ale (Wyeast Labs 1388) → 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
1.077 SG 		Final Gravity
1.010 SG 		ABV
8.7 % 		Bitterness
20.4 IBUs 		Color
3.9 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle BE-256 (Belgian Abbey) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Belgian Strong Ale (Wyeast Labs 1388).

  • 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 Golden 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