Martin's British Brown Ale Recipe Kit

Martin's British Brown Ale Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style British 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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Turn your kitchen into a brewery for an afternoon. This British Brown Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's

Turn your kitchen into a brewery for an afternoon. This British Brown Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's British Brown Ale, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

British brown ale spans two traditions: the sweeter, lower-gravity brown of the south and the stronger, nuttier northern style associated with Newcastle. Either way it is a malt-forward ale, brown to reddish in the glass, with flavors of toast and biscuit and a gentle, nutty caramel character. Hops sit in the background, present only to balance.

This recipe builds a layered malt bill and finishes it with a small charge of East Kent Goldings, so the grain stays front and center. At four and a half percent it drinks smooth and mellow.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 7 lbs · Maris Otter
  • 1 lbs · Fawcett Crystal 45 → we include Crystal 50
  • 8.0 oz · Brown Malt → we include Biscuit Malt
  • 8.0 oz · Wheat, Torrified (Thomas Fawcett) → we include Flaked Wheat
  • 4.0 oz · Pale Chocolate

Hops

  • 1.5 oz · East Kent Goldings (EKG) (Boil, 45.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · East Kent Goldings (EKG) (Boil, 5.0 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
1.046 SG 		Final Gravity
1.013 SG 		ABV
4.2 % 		Bitterness
28.7 IBUs 		Color
14.4 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Fawcett Crystal 45; Biscuit Malt in place of the recipe's Brown Malt; Flaked Wheat in place of the recipe's Wheat, Torrified (Thomas Fawcett). 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 British 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