Martin's Lichtenhainer Recipe Kit

Martin's Lichtenhainer Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Lichtenhainer, 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 better beer at home with a recipe that is already dialed in. This Lichtenhainer recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to

Brew better beer at home with a recipe that is already dialed in. This Lichtenhainer recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Lichtenhainer, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

The Lichtenhainer is a nearly extinct beer from Thuringia, named for a village near Jena. Before smoke-free kilns became standard, most beer carried some woodsmoke, and this one made a virtue of it: a smoked wheat beer, lightly soured and low in strength, made for easy summer drinking.

It pours pale and hazy and reads like a tension between two flavors, campfire smoke on one side and a clean lactic tartness on the other. Hopping is barely there. At under four percent it was a working beer, refreshing in a way the smoke makes hard to predict until you taste it.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 3 lbs · Oak-Smoked Wheat → we include Smoked Malt
  • 3 lbs · Pilsner (2 Row) Ger
  • 1 lbs 8.0 oz · Munich Malt

Hops

  • 1 oz · Saaz (Boil, 15.0 min)

Yeast

  • German Ale (Wyeast Labs 1007) → we include SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch)
  • Lactobacillus (Wyeast Labs 5335) (not included, add your own)

Water treatment salts and any specialty extras are noted with the recipe.

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.037 SG 		Final Gravity
1.007 SG 		ABV
3.9 % 		Bitterness
8.2 IBUs 		Color
5.5 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Smoked Malt in place of the recipe's Oak-Smoked Wheat. 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). Not included, add your own: Lactobacillus.

  • 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 Lichtenhainer. 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