You can start brewing beer this weekend with one simple kit. This Flanders Red Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Flanders Red, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Flanders Red comes from West Flanders in Belgium, where breweries like Rodenbach age it for a year or more in large oak vats. Brewers often call it the most wine-like of beers, and it earns the comparison: deep reddish brown, sharply sour, with cherry and balsamic notes and a hint of leather from the long maturation and the mixed cultures at work in the wood. The oak is central, adding tannin and a slow acetic edge.

A light touch of Tettnang is all the hopping the style needs, since the sourness and the barrel do the heavy lifting. This kit leaves room to add your own oak, which the traditional recipe ages on.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 4 lbs · Pilsner; Belgian
• 4 lbs · Vienna Malt
• 1 lbs · Flaked Oats
• 8.0 oz · Aromatic Malt
• 8.0 oz · Caramunich® II → we include Crystal 50
• 8.0 oz · Special B

Hops

• 1 oz · Tettnang (Boil, 60.0 min)

Yeast

• German Ale (Wyeast Labs 1007) → we include SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch)
• Roselare Belgian Blend (Wyeast Labs 3763) (not included, add your own)

Other Additions

• 4.00 oz · American Oak Cubes - Medium Toast (not included, add your own)

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

Recipe At A Glance

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramunich® II. We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's German Ale (Wyeast Labs 1007). Not included, add your own: 4.00 oz American Oak Cubes - Medium Toast; Roselare Belgian Blend.