Martin's London Brown Ale Recipe Kit

Martin's London Brown Ale Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style London 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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Skip the recipe math and just make great beer at home. This London Brown Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to

Skip the recipe math and just make great beer at home. This London Brown Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's London Brown Ale, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

London brown ale is the sweet, dark side of English brewing, the style behind Mann's Brown Ale, which sold for decades on a reputation as the sweetest beer in London. It is low in alcohol, often under four percent, and built for comfort rather than complexity.

The beer is deep brown with a reddish edge, and the flavor is soft and malty: caramel, a little chocolate, a lingering sweetness that never fully dries out. Hops stay in the background. It sits closer to a dessert than a session bitter, and it makes no apology for that.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 4 lbs · Maris Otter
  • 1 lbs · English Extra Dark Crystal → we include Crystal 80
  • 8.0 oz · Brown Malt → we include Biscuit Malt
  • 8.0 oz · Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L
  • 8.0 oz · Crystal 45 → we include Crystal 50
  • 4.0 oz · Chocolate Rye
  • 4.0 oz · Pale Chocolate

Hops

  • 1 oz · Fuggle (Boil, 45.0 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
1.033 SG 		Final Gravity
1.012 SG 		ABV
2.8 % 		Bitterness
16.6 IBUs 		Color
25.2 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 80 in place of the recipe's English Extra Dark Crystal; Biscuit Malt in place of the recipe's Brown Malt; Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Crystal 45. 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 London 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