Martin's Biere de Garde Recipe Kit

Martin's Biere de Garde Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Bière de Garde, 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 delicious beer at home without a chemistry degree. This Bière de Garde recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's

Make delicious beer at home without a chemistry degree. This Bière de Garde recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Biere de Garde, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Biere de Garde is the farmhouse beer of French Flanders and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, its name meaning beer for keeping. Farm brewers made it in the cooler months and stored it to drink through summer, which gave it a smooth, cellared character. It comes out maltier and rounder than its Belgian saison cousin, running from blond to deep amber, with a bready sweetness and a clean finish that hides its strength. This one crosses eight percent while staying easy to drink.

Tettnang and Hallertau keep the hopping restrained and continental, and a bit of honey in the grist lifts the finish and thins the body the way the style intends.

What's In The Kit

Your Bière de Garde recipe kit includes everything below, portioned and ready to brew. All you add is water.

Fermentables

  • 8 lbs · 2-row Belgian Pale Malt
  • 2 lbs · Munich I (Weyermann) → we include Munich Malt
  • 2 lbs · Vienna Malt
  • 8.0 oz · Aromatic Malt
  • 1 lbs · Honey

Hops

  • 2 oz · Tettnang Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Hallertauer (Boil, 0.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Tettnang Pellets (Boil, 0.0 min)

Yeast

  • French Saison (Wyeast Labs 3711) → we include SafAle BE-134 (Saison)

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

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.067 SG 		Final Gravity
1.006 SG 		ABV
8.0 % 		Bitterness
34.8 IBUs 		Color
7.5 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Munich Malt in place of the recipe's Munich I (Weyermann). We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle BE-134 (Saison) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's French Saison (Wyeast Labs 3711).

  • 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 Bière de Garde. 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