Martin's Czech Dark Lager Recipe Kit

Martin's Czech Dark Lager Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Czech Dark Lager, 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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An easy homebrew recipe for a beer you will actually want to drink. This Czech Dark Lager recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you

An easy homebrew recipe for a beer you will actually want to drink. This Czech Dark Lager recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Czech Dark Lager, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Czech Dark Lager, or tmave, is the dark counterpart to the country's famous golden beers, still poured fresh at historic Prague brewpubs like U Fleku. It is deep brown to near black, yet far softer than its color suggests. Chocolate and dark bread malt give a mild sweetness, with roast kept low and much of the bitterness coming from Saaz hops rather than the grain.

At around 4 percent it drinks easily despite the dark malt load, finishing smooth and gently sweet rather than dry or burnt. This is a comforting, sessionable dark lager with more nuance than a schwarzbier and none of a stout's heft.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 6 lbs · Pilsner; Floor Malted Bohemian
  • 1 lbs · Caramunich® I → we include Crystal 50
  • 1 lbs · Victory Malt
  • 12.0 oz · Chocolate Malt

Hops

  • 2 oz · Saaz Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Saaz Pellets (Boil, 15.0 min)

Yeast

  • Bohemian Lager (Wyeast Labs 2124) → we include SafLager S-189 (Pilsner Lager)

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

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.042 SG 		Final Gravity
1.010 SG 		ABV
4.1 % 		Bitterness
34.0 IBUs 		Color
27.3 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramunich® I. We stock dry yeast only, so SafLager S-189 (Pilsner Lager) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Bohemian Lager (Wyeast Labs 2124).

  • 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 Czech Dark Lager. 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