Martin's International Dark Lager Recipe Kit

Martin's International Dark Lager Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style International 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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Turn your kitchen into a brewery for an afternoon. This International Dark Lager recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's

Turn your kitchen into a brewery for an afternoon. This International Dark Lager recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's International Dark Lager, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

International Dark Lager is the smooth, gently sweet dark beer sold under national labels from Latin America to the darker export lagers of Europe. Despite the deep brown color, it drinks light. Roast is held back to a hint of cola and dark bread, and with very low bitterness the finish comes across soft rather than dry.

Carafa II supplies the color and a whisper of chocolate without the harsh char of a stout, sitting over a base of Pilsner and Vienna malt. A single restrained charge of Hallertau Mittelfruh keeps the hop presence in the background, which is exactly where this style wants it.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 5 lbs · Pilsner; German
  • 5 lbs · Vienna Malt
  • 8.0 oz · Carafa® Special II

Hops

  • 1 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 60.0 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
14.0 IBUs 		Color
21.0 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 International 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