Make beer at home that rivals your favorite taproom pour. This Foreign Extra Stout recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Foreign Extra Stout, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

When Guinness began shipping stout overseas in the early nineteenth century, the beer was built to last: stronger and more heavily hopped than the domestic version, so it could survive months in a ship's hold. That export recipe took root far from Dublin, and today Foreign Extra Stout is brewed and consumed across Nigeria, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia, often outselling the dry stouts back home.

Expect a nearly opaque black pour and a roast character of burnt coffee and bitter chocolate, with a firm hop bite behind it. The gravity carries it past 7%, which brings out dark fruit you won't find in a session stout. It finishes dry, the roast lingering.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 10 lbs · Pale Malt, Maris Otter
• 1 lbs · Barley, Flaked (Thomas Fawcett) → we include Flaked Barley
• 1 lbs · Crystal 45 → we include Crystal 50
• 8.0 oz · Crystal 120 → we include Crystal 80
• 8.0 oz · Pale Chocolate Malt (Fawcett) → we include Pale Chocolate
• 8.0 oz · Roasted Barley (Bairds)
• 4.0 oz · Black (Patent) Malt

Hops

• 1 oz · Target (Boil, 60.0 min) → we include Magnum
• 0.5 oz · Willamette (Boil, 60.0 min)
• 0.5 oz · Willamette (Boil, 10.0 min)

Yeast

• Thames Valley Ale (Wyeast Labs 1275) → 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 Flaked Barley in place of the recipe's Barley, Flaked (Thomas Fawcett); Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Crystal 45; Crystal 80 in place of the recipe's Crystal 120; Pale Chocolate in place of the recipe's Pale Chocolate Malt (Fawcett); Magnum in place of the recipe's Target. We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle S-04 (English Ale) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Thames Valley Ale (Wyeast Labs 1275).