Martin's Imperial Stout Recipe Kit

Martin's Imperial Stout Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Imperial Stout, 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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It could be the easiest beer recipe you ever brew. This Imperial Stout recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's

It could be the easiest beer recipe you ever brew. This Imperial Stout recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Imperial Stout, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

The Imperial Stout began as an export beer, brewed extra-strong in London in the eighteenth century for shipment to the Russian imperial court. The high alcohol kept it sound on the long haul to the Baltic, and Catherine the Great's fondness for it gave the style its name. It has been the benchmark for big, dark beer ever since.

This is a nearly black, full-bodied beer built on Maris Otter and a heavy hand of dark malts. Expect intense roast, bittersweet chocolate, espresso, and dark fruit, with a firm hop bitterness holding the sweetness in check at 8.5%. It drinks well fresh and better with age, mellowing over a year or two in the bottle.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 14 lbs · Maris Otter
  • 2 lbs · Crystal 45 → we include Crystal 50
  • 8.0 oz · Barley, Flaked
  • 8.0 oz · Roasted Barley
  • 8.0 oz · Special B
  • 4.0 oz · Black (Patent) Malt
  • 4.0 oz · Chocolate Malt

Hops

  • 2 oz · Magnum (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · East Kent Goldings (EKG) (Boil, 10.0 min)

Yeast

  • 2 packets · London Ale Yeast (Wyeast Labs 1028) → 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
1.088 SG 		Final Gravity
1.027 SG 		ABV
7.9 % 		Bitterness
70.6 IBUs 		Color
38.8 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes 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 Ale Yeast (Wyeast Labs 1028).

  • 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 Imperial Stout. 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