Martin's Sweet (Milk) Stout Recipe Kit

Martin's Sweet (Milk) Stout Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Sweet 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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Homemade beer, made simple and made fresh. This Sweet Stout recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Sweet (Milk) Stout,

Homemade beer, made simple and made fresh. This Sweet Stout recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Sweet (Milk) Stout, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Sweet stout, also called milk stout, gets its name and its body from lactose, a sugar drawn from milk that yeast cannot ferment. What is left behind is residual sweetness and a fuller mouthfeel that softens the roast. The style was once marketed as nourishing and served to nursing mothers and the unwell. Mackeson is the classic English example.

The result is a smooth, dark, faintly sweet stout with notes of chocolate and coffee rounded off by the lactose. Flaked oats add to the silky texture, and the hopping stays low so the sweetness leads.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 7 lbs · Pale Malt, Maris Otter (Thomas Fawcett) → we include Maris Otter
  • 1 lbs · Pale Chocolate
  • 8.0 oz · Flaked Oats
  • 8.0 oz · Roasted Barley (Thomas Fawcett) → we include Roasted Barley
  • 1 lbs · Milk Sugar (Lactose)

Hops

  • 2 oz · Fuggles (Boil, 60.0 min)

Yeast

  • Ringwood Ale (Wyeast Labs 1187) → we include LalBrew Windsor (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
1.050 SG 		Final Gravity
1.020 SG 		ABV
3.9 % 		Bitterness
31.6 IBUs 		Color
28.9 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Maris Otter in place of the recipe's Pale Malt, Maris Otter (Thomas Fawcett); Roasted Barley in place of the recipe's Roasted Barley (Thomas Fawcett). We stock dry yeast only, so LalBrew Windsor (English Ale) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Ringwood Ale (Wyeast Labs 1187).

  • 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 Sweet 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