Your first batch of homebrew is closer than you think. This Kentucky Common recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Kentucky Common, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Kentucky common was the everyday beer of Louisville and the surrounding region in the decades before Prohibition, a dark, cheap, corn-heavy ale that brewers turned out fast and sold within days. It rarely traveled and left almost no written record, part of why it stayed a local curiosity for so long.

The beer runs dark amber to brown, light in body from the corn, and mildly tart in some accounts from a quick sour mash. Bitterness is low and the finish is easy. This was a beer made to be drunk young and in quantity, not aged or fussed over.

What's In The Kit

Your Kentucky Common recipe kit includes everything below, portioned and ready to brew. All you add is water.

Fermentables

• 7 lbs · Pale Malt (2 Row) US
• 2 lbs · Flaked Corn
• 8.0 oz · Flaked Rye
• 4.0 oz · Black Malt
• 4.0 oz · Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L

Hops

• 0.5 oz · Cluster (Boil, 60.0 min) → we include Northern Brewer
• 0.5 oz · Cluster (Boil, 20.0 min) → we include Northern Brewer

Yeast

• California Lager (Wyeast Labs 2112) → 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 California Lager (Wyeast Labs 2112).