Martin's English Porter Recipe Kit

Brew a batch of fresh beer at home this weekend. This English Porter recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's English Porter, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Porter was the defining beer of eighteenth-century London, a dark, hearty ale named for the market and river porters who drank it by the gallon. It predates stout, which began as a stronger version of the same beer, and it carries flavors of chocolate and coffee with a light toast, none of the sharp roast of a dry stout. The color runs deep brown to near black.

This version stays true to the English style: moderate strength, a smooth malt-driven body, and East Kent Goldings for a restrained, earthy bitterness. At just under five percent it is a beer for the whole evening.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 7 lbs · Maris Otter
• 1 lbs · Brown Malt → we include Biscuit Malt
• 1 lbs · Fawcett Crystal 45 → we include Crystal 50
• 8.0 oz · Chocolate Malt
• 4.0 oz · Crystal 80

Hops

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

Yeast

• London Ale Yeast (Wyeast Labs 1028) → we include SafAle S-04 (English Ale)

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

Recipe At A Glance

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Biscuit Malt in place of the recipe's Brown Malt; Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Fawcett Crystal 45. We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle S-04 (English Ale) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's London Ale Yeast (Wyeast Labs 1028).