Martin's Kolsch Recipe Kit

Martin's Kolsch Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Kölsch, 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 classic beer styles at home with real confidence. This Kölsch recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Kolsch, a

Brew classic beer styles at home with real confidence. This Kölsch recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Kolsch, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Kolsch belongs to Cologne, and by agreement among the city's brewers the name legally applies only to beer made there. It is a hybrid: fermented warm with ale yeast, then conditioned cold like a lager, which gives it a pale straw color and a delicate, soft-bready malt with a faint fruitiness that a true lager would not have. Bitterness is present but polite.

Traditionally it is served in the stange, a slim cylindrical glass, and refilled almost automatically until you set a coaster on top to signal you are done. The beer is subtle to the point of being tricky, since its clean, wine-like crispness leaves little to cover any misstep.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 6 lbs · Pilsner; German
  • 4 lbs · Vienna Malt

Hops

  • 2 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 15.0 min)

Yeast

  • German Ale (Wyeast Labs 1007) → 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
1.048 SG 		Final Gravity
1.009 SG 		ABV
5.2 % 		Bitterness
32.7 IBUs 		Color
4.6 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 (Wyeast Labs 1007).

  • 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 Kölsch. 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