Martin's Kentucky Common Recipe Kit

Martin's Kentucky Common Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Kentucky Common, 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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Your first batch of homebrew is closer than you think. This Kentucky Common recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's

Your first batch of homebrew is closer than you think. This Kentucky Common recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Kentucky Common, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Kentucky common was the everyday beer of Louisville and the surrounding region in the decades before Prohibition, a dark, cheap, corn-heavy ale that brewers turned out fast and sold within days. It rarely traveled and left almost no written record, part of why it stayed a local curiosity for so long.

The beer runs dark amber to brown, light in body from the corn, and mildly tart in some accounts from a quick sour mash. Bitterness is low and the finish is easy. This was a beer made to be drunk young and in quantity, not aged or fussed over.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 7 lbs · Pale Malt (2 Row) US
  • 2 lbs · Flaked Corn
  • 8.0 oz · Flaked Rye
  • 4.0 oz · Black Malt
  • 4.0 oz · Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L → we include Crystal 50

Hops

  • 0.5 oz · Cluster (Boil, 60.0 min) → we include Northern Brewer
  • 0.5 oz · Cluster (Boil, 20.0 min) → we include Northern Brewer

Yeast

  • California Lager (Wyeast Labs 2112) → we include SafLager W-34/70 (German Lager)

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
1.010 SG 		ABV
5.2 % 		Bitterness
23.8 IBUs 		Color
15.8 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L; Northern Brewer in place of the recipe's Cluster. We stock dry yeast only, so SafLager W-34/70 (German Lager) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's California Lager (Wyeast Labs 2112).

  • 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 Kentucky Common. 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