Martin's Best Bitter Recipe Kit

Martin's Best Bitter Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Best Bitter, 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 taproom-quality beer at home for pennies a pint. This Best Bitter recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Best

Make taproom-quality beer at home for pennies a pint. This Best Bitter recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Best Bitter, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Best bitter is the everyday ale of the English pub, poured from the cask at cellar temperature and meant to be drunk by the pint rather than sipped. It sits a notch above ordinary bitter in strength. It pours amber, with a firm bready malt base and enough hop bitterness to stay dry through the finish. Fuggle and East Kent Goldings give it the earthy, slightly floral note that marks the classic English hop.

Balance is the whole point. Nothing dominates, and the beer stays drinkable across a long evening. Maris Otter carries the malt while a small charge of pale chocolate deepens the color without adding real roast.

What's In The Kit

Your Best Bitter recipe kit includes everything below, portioned and ready to brew. All you add is water.

Fermentables

  • 8 lbs · Maris Otter
  • 12.0 oz · Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L
  • 4.0 oz · Pale Chocolate

Hops

  • 1.5 oz · Fuggle Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · East Kent Goldings (EKG) (Boil, 10.0 min)

Yeast

  • London Ale III (Wyeast Labs 1318) → we include LalBrew Verdant IPA (Hazy/English IPA)

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

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.045 SG 		Final Gravity
1.013 SG 		ABV
4.2 % 		Bitterness
33.8 IBUs 		Color
14.5 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

We stock dry yeast only, so LalBrew Verdant IPA (Hazy/English IPA) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's London Ale III (Wyeast Labs 1318).

  • 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 Best Bitter. 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