Martin's Wee Heavy Recipe Kit

Martin's Wee Heavy Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Wee Heavy, 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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One kit, one brew day, five gallons of beer you made yourself. This Wee Heavy recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to

One kit, one brew day, five gallons of beer you made yourself. This Wee Heavy recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Wee Heavy, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Wee Heavy is Scotland's take on the strong ale: deeply malty, lightly hopped, and built around caramel and kettle-caramelized sugar. Scotland's cool climate never favored hop growing, so brewers leaned on malt for character and boiled the wort long to concentrate its sweetness.

Pouring copper to deep brown, it carries toffee, dark bread crust, and a faint background roast. Bitterness stays low by design, letting the malt take the lead, and the strength (nearly 9% here) leaves a warming finish with little hop interference. A single addition of East Kent Goldings is all it asks for.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 15 lbs · Pale Malt, Golden Promise (Thomas Fawcett) → we include Maris Otter
  • 1 lbs · Crystal 45 → we include Crystal 50
  • 8.0 oz · Biscuit Malt
  • 8.0 oz · Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L → we include Crystal 80
  • 8.0 oz · Special Roast → we include Biscuit Malt
  • 2.0 oz · Roasted Barley (Thomas Fawcett) → we include Roasted Barley

Hops

  • 1 oz · East Kent Goldings (EKG) (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · East Kent Goldings (EKG) (Boil, 10.0 min)

Yeast

  • 2 packets · Denny's Favorite (Wyeast Labs 1450) → we include SafAle US-05 (American Ale)

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

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.088 SG 		Final Gravity
1.020 SG 		ABV
9.0 % 		Bitterness
19.7 IBUs 		Color
21.3 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Maris Otter in place of the recipe's Pale Malt, Golden Promise (Thomas Fawcett); Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Crystal 45; Crystal 80 in place of the recipe's Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L; Biscuit Malt in place of the recipe's Special Roast; Roasted Barley in place of the recipe's Roasted Barley (Thomas Fawcett). We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle US-05 (American Ale) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Denny's Favorite (Wyeast Labs 1450).

  • 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 Wee Heavy. 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