Martin's Flanders Red Recipe Kit

Martin's Flanders Red Recipe Kit

Current Price: Current Price: $39.17
Product Subtotal: $39.17
Original Price:

Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Flanders Red 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.
Stock your kit

Bundle these accessories that’ll go the extra mile, and upgrade to a turn-key brewing experience.

Fast shipping

Discreet packaging

Product Details

You can start brewing beer this weekend with one simple kit. This Flanders Red Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to

You can start brewing beer this weekend with one simple kit. This Flanders Red Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Flanders Red, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Flanders Red comes from West Flanders in Belgium, where breweries like Rodenbach age it for a year or more in large oak vats. Brewers often call it the most wine-like of beers, and it earns the comparison: deep reddish brown, sharply sour, with cherry and balsamic notes and a hint of leather from the long maturation and the mixed cultures at work in the wood. The oak is central, adding tannin and a slow acetic edge.

A light touch of Tettnang is all the hopping the style needs, since the sourness and the barrel do the heavy lifting. This kit leaves room to add your own oak, which the traditional recipe ages on.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 4 lbs · Pilsner; Belgian
  • 4 lbs · Vienna Malt
  • 1 lbs · Flaked Oats
  • 8.0 oz · Aromatic Malt
  • 8.0 oz · Caramunich® II → we include Crystal 50
  • 8.0 oz · Special B

Hops

  • 1 oz · Tettnang (Boil, 60.0 min)

Yeast

  • German Ale (Wyeast Labs 1007) → we include SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch)
  • Roselare Belgian Blend (Wyeast Labs 3763) (not included, add your own)

Other Additions

  • 4.00 oz · American Oak Cubes - Medium Toast (not included, add your own)

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

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.049 SG 		Final Gravity
1.011 SG 		ABV
5.1 % 		Bitterness
15.9 IBUs 		Color
13.5 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramunich® II. We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's German Ale (Wyeast Labs 1007). Not included, add your own: 4.00 oz American Oak Cubes - Medium Toast; Roselare Belgian Blend.

  • 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 Flanders Red 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