Martin's Ordinary Bitter Recipe Kit

Martin's Ordinary Bitter Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Ordinary Bitter, 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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This is a beer making kit just about anyone can pull off. This Ordinary Bitter recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to

This is a beer making kit just about anyone can pull off. This Ordinary Bitter recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Ordinary Bitter, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Ordinary bitter is the everyday pint of the English pub, the lightest of the bitters and, at well under 4 percent, built for drinking a few without ceremony. Despite the name it is not aggressively bitter; "bitter" simply set it apart from the sweeter milds of its day. What you get is biscuit and light caramel malt, a gentle earthy hop, and a dry, moreish finish.

It shows best from a cask at cellar temperature, soft and low in carbonation, which is the setting the English session tradition grew up in. A beer this modest was always meant to be poured fresh, so plan on drinking it young.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 6 lbs · Maris Otter
  • 8.0 oz · Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L
  • 8.0 oz · Victory Malt

Hops

  • 1 oz · East Kent Goldings (EKG) (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Fuggle Pellets (Boil, 20.0 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
1.035 SG 		Final Gravity
1.010 SG 		ABV
3.3 % 		Bitterness
31.7 IBUs 		Color
9.3 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

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 Ordinary Bitter. 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