Martin's Marzen Recipe Kit

Martin's Marzen Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Märzen, 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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Brewing your own beer just got a whole lot simpler. This Märzen recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Marzen,

Brewing your own beer just got a whole lot simpler. This Märzen recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Marzen, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Marzen is the original Oktoberfest beer, named for March, when Bavarian brewers made it before summer brewing was banned, then lagered it in cool cellars until autumn. It pours amber to deep copper and leads with toasty, bready Munich and Vienna malt and a touch of caramel, then closes clean and dry so the maltiness never turns heavy. Hopping is low, there only to balance.

This is the beer the festival was built on, before the lighter golden Festbier took over the tents in recent decades. It is richer and more toasted than its modern replacement, and to plenty of drinkers it remains the truer taste of the season.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 7 lbs · Vienna Malt
  • 3 lbs · Munich Malt - 10L
  • 8.0 oz · Aromatic Malt
  • 8.0 oz · Caramel 60 → we include Crystal 50
  • 8.0 oz · Carapils® → we include Great Chit
  • 8.0 oz · Wheat Malt; White

Hops

  • 0.75 oz · Perle Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 15.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · Tettnang Pellets (Boil, 0.0 min)

Yeast

  • Octoberfest/Marzen Lager (White Labs WLP820) → 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
1.056 SG 		Final Gravity
1.011 SG 		ABV
5.9 % 		Bitterness
26.1 IBUs 		Color
11.0 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramel 60; Great Chit in place of the recipe's Carapils®. We stock dry yeast only, so SafLager W-34/70 (German Lager) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Octoberfest/Marzen Lager (White Labs WLP820).

  • 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 Märzen. 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