Martin's Scottish Light Recipe Kit

Martin's Scottish Light Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Scottish Light, 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 the fun, easy way to make beer at home. This Scottish Light recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew

This is the fun, easy way to make beer at home. This Scottish Light recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Scottish Light, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Scottish light, or 60 shilling, is the lightest of the traditional Scottish ales, named for the old practice of taxing beer by the barrel. It is a low-gravity, malt-centered ale fermented cool, which keeps the yeast quiet and lets a soft, faintly caramel maltiness lead. Hops are barely there, in keeping with a cool northern climate that never favored them.

At under three percent this is about as sessionable as beer gets, dark copper in the glass with a clean, dry finish. A touch of roasted barley adds depth without turning it toward stout.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 5 lbs · Pale Malt, Maris Otter
  • 8.0 oz · Crystal 80
  • 6.0 oz · Pale Chocolate
  • 2.0 oz · Roasted Barley

Hops

  • 1 oz · Fuggle (Boil, 60.0 min)

Yeast

  • Scottish Ale (Wyeast Labs 1728) → we include LalBrew Nottingham (English/Neutral)

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

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.030 SG 		Final Gravity
1.008 SG 		ABV
3.0 % 		Bitterness
18.2 IBUs 		Color
20.8 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

We stock dry yeast only, so LalBrew Nottingham (English/Neutral) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Scottish Ale (Wyeast Labs 1728).

  • 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 Scottish Light. 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