Martin's Biere de Garde Recipe Kit

Make delicious beer at home without a chemistry degree. This Bière de Garde recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Biere de Garde, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Biere de Garde is the farmhouse beer of French Flanders and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, its name meaning beer for keeping. Farm brewers made it in the cooler months and stored it to drink through summer, which gave it a smooth, cellared character. It comes out maltier and rounder than its Belgian saison cousin, running from blond to deep amber, with a bready sweetness and a clean finish that hides its strength. This one crosses eight percent while staying easy to drink.

Tettnang and Hallertau keep the hopping restrained and continental, and a bit of honey in the grist lifts the finish and thins the body the way the style intends.

What's In The Kit

Your Bière de Garde recipe kit includes everything below, portioned and ready to brew. All you add is water.

Fermentables

• 8 lbs · 2-row Belgian Pale Malt
• 2 lbs · Munich I (Weyermann) → we include Munich Malt
• 2 lbs · Vienna Malt
• 8.0 oz · Aromatic Malt
• 1 lbs · Honey

Hops

• 2 oz · Tettnang Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
• 1 oz · Hallertauer (Boil, 0.0 min)
• 1 oz · Tettnang Pellets (Boil, 0.0 min)

Yeast

• French Saison (Wyeast Labs 3711) → we include SafAle BE-134 (Saison)

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

Recipe At A Glance

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Munich Malt in place of the recipe's Munich I (Weyermann). We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle BE-134 (Saison) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's French Saison (Wyeast Labs 3711).