Martin's Campsite Kolsch Recipe Kit

Martin's Campsite Kolsch Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Kölsch, one of the 99 beers Martin Keen brewed during his Homebrew Challenge.
  • Every fermentable, hop, and yeast portioned and matched to the recipe, so there is no math and no guesswork on brew day.
  • Sized for a 5-gallon batch and ready for all-grain or brew-in-a-bag, so it works with whatever homebrew gear you already own.
  • Fresh ingredients, shipped fast, so your brew day starts with the good stuff.
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This is craft beer at home, minus the guesswork. This Kölsch recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Campsite Kolsch,

This is craft beer at home, minus the guesswork. This Kölsch recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Campsite Kolsch, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Kölsch belongs to Cologne and, by German agreement, can only carry the name if it is brewed there. It is a hybrid: fermented with ale yeast at cool temperatures, then lagered cold, which gives it the fruit of an ale and the crispness of a lager. The color is pale straw and the body light, with a gentle but present bitterness.

Traditionally it is served in Cologne's tall, narrow Stange glasses, swapped out by roving waiters the moment yours runs dry. Delicacy is the whole point, so clean fermentation and fresh ingredients matter more than any single bold flavor. This one keeps to that restraint, an easy pale beer for a warm afternoon.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 8 lbs · Pilsner (2 Row) Ger
  • 8.0 oz · Caravienne Malt → we include Crystal 20
  • 8.0 oz · Vienna Malt

Hops

  • 1 oz · Hallertauer Mittelfrueh (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Hallertauer Mittelfrueh (Boil, 10.0 min)

Yeast

  • German Ale/Kolsch (White Labs WLP029) → we include SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch)

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

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.044 SG 		Final Gravity
1.009 SG 		ABV
4.6 % 		Bitterness
22.1 IBUs 		Color
4.6 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 20 in place of the recipe's Caravienne Malt. We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's German Ale/Kolsch (White Labs WLP029).

  • This kit is built for brew-in-a-bag (BIAB), the simplest way to make all-grain beer at home. The basic brew day looks like this:

    1. Heat your water and steep the milled grain to make wort.
    2. Boil the wort, adding the hops on the schedule in the recipe.
    3. Cool the wort down quickly, then transfer it to your fermenter.
    4. Pitch the yeast and let it ferment for about two weeks.
    5. Bottle or keg, wait for carbonation, then enjoy.

    That yields roughly 53 bottles of fresh Kölsch. It works great with our digital electric homebrew systems, which hold your temperatures for you, though any kettle and burner will do.

  • This is a recipe kit, so it includes the ingredients only. To brew it at home you will also need:

    • A brew kettle or an electric all-in-one brewing system
    • A grain bag for brew-in-a-bag (or a mash tun for a traditional mash)
    • A fermenter with an airlock
    • A thermometer and a way to chill the wort
    • Sanitizer, and bottles or a keg for packaging