Martin's British Strong Ale Recipe Kit

Martin's British Strong Ale Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style British 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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Fresh ingredients delivered and ready to brew at home. This British Strong Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's

Fresh ingredients delivered and ready to brew at home. This British Strong Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's British Strong Ale, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

British Strong Ale is less a single recipe than a broad bracket: any malt-forward English ale that outpaces an ordinary bitter without crossing into old ale or barleywine territory. Brewers reached for it when they wanted a winter warmer or a holiday special, something with enough body and strength to reward slow drinking by the fire.

This one pours deep amber and leads with malt: toffee, baked bread, and a touch of orchard fruit off the yeast. Fuggle and East Kent Goldings keep the bitterness earthy and restrained, the way English hops tend to, so the balance stays on the sweeter side without turning cloying.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 10 lbs · Pale Malt, Maris Otter
  • 8.0 oz · Amber Malt → we include Biscuit Malt
  • 8.0 oz · Aromatic Malt (Simpsons) → we include Dark Munich (Aromatic Malt)
  • 8.0 oz · Barley, Flaked (Thomas Fawcett) → we include Flaked Barley
  • 8.0 oz · Crystal 45 → we include Crystal 50

Hops

  • 2 oz · Fuggle (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · East Kent Goldings (EKG) (Boil, 5.0 min)

Yeast

  • London ESB Ale (Wyeast Labs 1968) → we include SafAle S-04 (English Ale)

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

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.060 SG 		Final Gravity
1.016 SG 		ABV
5.8 % 		Bitterness
35.7 IBUs 		Color
10.2 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Biscuit Malt in place of the recipe's Amber Malt; Dark Munich (Aromatic Malt) in place of the recipe's Aromatic Malt (Simpsons); Flaked Barley in place of the recipe's Barley, Flaked (Thomas Fawcett); Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Crystal 45. We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle S-04 (English Ale) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's London ESB Ale (Wyeast Labs 1968).

  • 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 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