Martin's International Amber Lager Recipe Kit

Martin's International Amber Lager Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style International Amber 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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Small-batch brewing at home has never been this simple. This International Amber Lager recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's

Small-batch brewing at home has never been this simple. This International Amber Lager recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's International Amber Lager, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Shift the International Lager family a few shades darker and you land here. Amber lagers of this kind turn up everywhere from Mexico to East Asia, usually sold as a slightly fuller, more colorful companion to the pale version. Expect light toast and a faint caramel edge over a clean lager base, with bitterness low enough that the malt keeps the lead.

Munich and biscuit malt do most of the talking, giving a bready, lightly toasted character without heaviness, while Perle and Hallertau Mittelfruh keep the hopping soft and German. The color lands squarely in the amber range, but the beer still finishes clean and drinkable.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 8 lbs 4.0 oz · Pilsner; German
  • 1 lbs · Munich Type I
  • 8.0 oz · Caramel 60 → we include Crystal 50
  • 8.0 oz · Victory Malt

Hops

  • 0.75 oz · Perle Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 0.75 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
1.050 SG 		Final Gravity
1.010 SG 		ABV
5.3 % 		Bitterness
23.9 IBUs 		Color
8.2 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramel 60. 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 International Amber 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