Martin's Victoria Bitter Recipe Kit

Brew pub-quality beer at home for a fraction of the price. This Australian Sparkling Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Victoria Bitter, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Victoria Bitter, or VB, is one of Australia's best-selling beers, a green-labelled fixture of the pub and the esky despite a name that promises more bitterness than it delivers. This is a clone of it: pale, dry, and cleanly bitter, brewed to sit somewhere between a lager and an ale the way the original does.

It pours very pale with firm carbonation and a lean body around 5.5%. The hopping is old-school and earthy rather than citrusy, dry enough to earn the word bitter on the label without ever turning aggressive. A hot-climate lawnmower beer with a cult following at home.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 6 lbs · Pilsner; European
• 1 lbs 8.0 oz · Corn Sugar (Dextrose)

Hops

• 0.75 oz · Cluster (Boil, 60.0 min) → we include Northern Brewer

Yeast

• German Lager (White Labs WLP830) → we include SafLager W-34/70 (German Lager)

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

Recipe At A Glance

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Northern Brewer in place of the recipe's Cluster. We stock dry yeast only, so SafLager W-34/70 (German Lager) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's German Lager (White Labs WLP830).