Martin's German Leichtbier Recipe Kit

Martin's German Leichtbier Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style German Leichtbier, 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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Homemade beer, made simple and made fresh. This German Leichtbier recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's German Leichtbier, a

Homemade beer, made simple and made fresh. This German Leichtbier recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's German Leichtbier, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Leichtbier is the German take on a light beer: a low-strength, low-calorie lager brewed to keep as much flavor as possible at a fraction of the gravity. At around 3 percent it is lighter than almost anything else in the German canon, yet it still aims for the crisp, hop-touched profile of a pils rather than the watery character the word "light" usually implies.

Pilsner malt and a little biscuit give a lean, grainy base, while a mix of noble and Styrian hops keeps a gentle spicy-floral note through the finish. It is a beer designed for volume and refreshment, and the trick to brewing it well is holding onto flavor when there is so little malt to work with.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 6 lbs · Pilsner; German
  • 8.0 oz · Victory Malt

Hops

  • 1 oz · Styrian Golding Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 5.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Saaz Pellets (Boil, 0.0 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
1.032 SG 		Final Gravity
1.006 SG 		ABV
3.4 % 		Bitterness
27.1 IBUs 		Color
4.1 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

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 German Leichtbier. 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