Brewing beer at home is easy when the recipe is done for you. This Burton Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Burton Ale, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Burton ale is one of England's older strong ales, the dark, malty, sweet beer that made Burton-on-Trent famous long before the town's pale ales did. It was shipped across Britain and the Baltic through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and was a benchmark for strength and keeping quality.

The style is deep amber to brown, full-bodied, and firmly malty, with dark fruit and a good measure of English hop bitterness to keep the sweetness in line. It is a slow, warming beer, an ancestor of the old ales and winter warmers that came after it. This version lands around six and a half percent.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 12 lbs · Maris Otter
• 6.0 oz · Chocolate Malt

Hops

• 2 oz · East Kent Goldings (EKG) (Boil, 60.0 min)
• 1 oz · East Kent Goldings (EKG) (Boil, 10.0 min)
• 1 oz · East Kent Goldings (EKG) (Dry Hop, 60.0 min)

Yeast

• Burton Ale (White Labs WLP023) → 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

We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle S-04 (English Ale) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Burton Ale (White Labs WLP023).