Martin's Munich Helles Recipe Kit

Martin's Munich Helles Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Munich Helles, 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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Make beer at home and taste the difference that fresh makes. This Munich Helles recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew

Make beer at home and taste the difference that fresh makes. This Munich Helles recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Munich Helles, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Munich Helles was Bavaria's answer to the pale pilsners moving in from the north and from Bohemia in the late 1800s. Rather than copy their hop bite, Munich brewers built a pale lager around malt: soft, bready, faintly sweet, with just enough Hallertau hop to balance. The name simply means "pale," and the beer is the golden mainstay of Munich's beer halls.

Everything about it is understated. The pilsner and Vienna malt give a gentle grainy-sweet backbone, bitterness stays low, and the finish is clean without turning dry. It rewards good process, since there is nowhere for flaws to hide.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 8 lbs 8.0 oz · Pilsner; German
  • 1 lbs · Vienna Malt
  • 4.0 oz · Victory Malt

Hops

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

Yeast

  • Munich Lager (Wyeast Labs 2308) → 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
1.048 SG 		Final Gravity
1.009 SG 		ABV
5.1 % 		Bitterness
25.7 IBUs 		Color
4.4 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 Munich Lager (Wyeast Labs 2308).

  • 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 Munich Helles. 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