Martin's Czech Pale Lager Recipe Kit

Martin's Czech Pale Lager Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Czech Pale 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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Brew a batch of fresh beer at home this weekend. This Czech Pale Lager recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew

Brew a batch of fresh beer at home this weekend. This Czech Pale Lager recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Czech Pale Lager, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Czech Pale Lager, or vycepni, is the everyday draft beer of Czech pubs: lower in strength than the famous premium lagers but poured in far greater volume. It is pale gold, soft, and carries a bready malt note under a firm, spicy Saaz hop character. At this gravity it sits near 3.4 percent, which is the point, since it is meant to be drunk by the half-liter across a long afternoon.

The bitterness runs higher than the low strength might suggest, giving the beer a crisp, herbal snap that keeps it lively rather than thin. Soft water and Czech Saaz are the signatures, and both show through here.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 6 lbs · Pilsner; Floor Malted Bohemian
  • 12.0 oz · Victory Malt
  • 4.0 oz · Acidulated Malt

Hops

  • 1.5 oz · Styrian Golding Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Saaz Pellets (Boil, 15.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Saaz Pellets (Boil, 0.0 min)

Yeast

  • Munich Lager (Wyeast Labs 2308) → we include SafLager W-34/70 (German Lager)

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

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.034 SG 		Final Gravity
1.006 SG 		ABV
3.7 % 		Bitterness
41.8 IBUs 		Color
4.9 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

We stock dry yeast only, so SafLager W-34/70 (German Lager) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Munich Lager (Wyeast Labs 2308).

  • 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 Pale 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