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
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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).