Martin's Trappist Single Recipe Kit

Martin's Trappist Single Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Trappist Single, 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 brewing kit built for a great first batch. This Trappist Single recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to

This is a beer brewing kit built for a great first batch. This Trappist Single recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Trappist Single, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

The Trappist single, also called an enkel or patersbier, is the beer the monks keep for themselves. Most abbeys sell their dubbels and tripels but brew a lighter beer for the daily table, low enough in strength to drink at lunch and still work the afternoon. Westvleteren's blonde is the best-known example most people never get to taste.

It is pale, dry, and lightly bitter, carrying the same spicy, fruity yeast signature that runs through the stronger abbey beers, only at a gentler gravity. The pleasure is in the balance rather than any single big flavor. Restraint is the point.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 8 lbs · Pilsner; Floor Malted Bohemian
  • 8.0 oz · Carahell (Weyermann) → we include Crystal 20
  • 1 lbs · Candi Sugar, Clear

Hops

  • 1 oz · Hallertauer Hersbrucker (Boil, 60.0 min) → we include Hallertau Mittelfrüh
  • 1 oz · Hallertauer Hersbrucker (Boil, 15.0 min) → we include Hallertau Mittelfrüh
  • 1 oz · Styrian Goldings (Boil, 5.0 min)

Yeast

  • Trappist Ale (White Labs WLP500) → we include SafAle BE-256 (Belgian Abbey)

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
1.008 SG 		ABV
5.3 % 		Bitterness
29.6 IBUs 		Color
4.5 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 20 in place of the recipe's Carahell (Weyermann); Hallertau Mittelfrüh in place of the recipe's Hallertauer Hersbrucker. We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle BE-256 (Belgian Abbey) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Trappist Ale (White Labs WLP500).

  • 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 Trappist Single. 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