Martin's Irish Red Ale Recipe Kit

Make beer at home and taste the difference that fresh makes. This Irish Red Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Irish Red Ale, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Irish red ale is a modest, easy-drinking style, known abroad mainly through Smithwick's and the red ales that flow on St. Patrick's Day. Its defining feature is color, a reddish amber that comes from a small amount of roasted barley, which also leaves a dry, faintly toasty note in the finish. The malt is otherwise clean and lightly caramel, the hops held back.

At four percent this is a balanced, sessionable ale with broad appeal and nothing sharp about it. Chocolate malt and two crystal malts build the color and a soft sweetness underneath.

What's In The Kit

Your Irish Red Ale recipe kit includes everything below, portioned and ready to brew. All you add is water.

Fermentables

• 7 lbs · Thomas Fawcett Pearl Malt → we include Maris Otter
• 8.0 oz · Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L → we include Crystal 80
• 8.0 oz · Crystal Malt - 45L → we include Crystal 50
• 2.0 oz · Chocolate Rye

Hops

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

Yeast

• Irish Ale (Wyeast Labs 1084) → we include LalBrew Nottingham (English/Neutral)

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

Recipe At A Glance

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Maris Otter in place of the recipe's Thomas Fawcett Pearl Malt; Crystal 80 in place of the recipe's Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L; Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Crystal Malt - 45L. We stock dry yeast only, so LalBrew Nottingham (English/Neutral) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Irish Ale (Wyeast Labs 1084).