Martin's Tropical Stout Recipe Kit

Martin's Tropical Stout Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Tropical 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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This recipe kit is the easy on-ramp to all-grain brewing. This Tropical Stout recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's

This recipe kit is the easy on-ramp to all-grain brewing. This Tropical Stout recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Tropical Stout, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Tropical stout is the Caribbean take on the dark beer the British left behind, a high-gravity, sweeter stout brewed for hot climates and often fermented warm enough to ruin a colder style. Guinness Foreign Extra is the template. Expect a full body and a pronounced sweetness, with dark fruit notes of raisin and molasses over a coffee-like roast.

This version takes an unusual turn, pairing that dark malt bill with modern fruit-forward hops in Citra and Nectaron and a lager yeast fermented warm, which pushes the tropical side of the style. Special B and Carafa deepen both the color and the dried-fruit character.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 9 lbs · Maris Otter
  • 12.0 oz · Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L → we include Crystal 80
  • 12.0 oz · Crystal 45 → we include Crystal 50
  • 8.0 oz · Carafa Special II (Weyermann) → we include Carafa II
  • 8.0 oz · Special B
  • 4.0 oz · Roasted Barley (Thomas Fawcett) → we include Roasted Barley

Hops

  • 1 oz · Target (Boil, 60.0 min) → we include Magnum
  • 0.5 oz · Citra (Boil, 10.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · Motueka (Boil, 10.0 min) → we include Nectaron
  • 0.5 oz · Citra (Boil, 0.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · Motueka (Boil, 0.0 min) → we include Nectaron

Yeast

  • Bohemian Lager (Wyeast Labs 2124) → we include SafLager S-189 (Pilsner Lager)

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

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.057 SG 		Final Gravity
1.015 SG 		ABV
5.6 % 		Bitterness
70.5 IBUs 		Color
34.0 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 80 in place of the recipe's Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L; Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Crystal 45; Carafa II in place of the recipe's Carafa Special II (Weyermann); Roasted Barley in place of the recipe's Roasted Barley (Thomas Fawcett); Magnum in place of the recipe's Target; Nectaron in place of the recipe's Motueka. We stock dry yeast only, so SafLager S-189 (Pilsner Lager) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Bohemian Lager (Wyeast Labs 2124).

  • 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 Tropical 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