Martin's German Pils Recipe Kit

Martin's German Pils Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style German Pils, 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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Make beer at home that rivals your favorite taproom pour. This German Pils recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's

Make beer at home that rivals your favorite taproom pour. This German Pils recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's German Pils, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

German Pils is the north's drier, sharper reading of the Bohemian original. When the pilsner style traveled from Plzen into Germany, brewers with harder water and a taste for bitterness pushed it toward a paler, crisper, more hop-forward beer. The result is straw-gold and brilliantly clear, defined by a firm bitterness and a spicy, floral noble-hop aroma.

Malt takes a supporting role, just a lean cracker note to carry the hops, and the beer attenuates well to a dry, clean finish that pulls you toward the next sip. Here it reaches past 36 IBUs, with Perle and Hallertau Mittelfruh supplying both the backbone and the aroma. It is the everyday pint of northern Germany for good reason.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 9 lbs · Pilsner; German

Hops

  • 1.25 oz · Perle Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 10.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 0.0 min)

Yeast

  • German Lager (White Labs WLP830) → 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
1.044 SG 		Final Gravity
1.008 SG 		ABV
4.8 % 		Bitterness
42.3 IBUs 		Color
3.2 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 German Lager (White Labs WLP830).

  • 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 Pils. 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