Martin's New Zealand Pilsner Recipe Kit

Martin's New Zealand Pilsner Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style New Zealand Pilsner, 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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This is a homebrew recipe kit that sets you up to succeed. This New Zealand Pilsner recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need

This is a homebrew recipe kit that sets you up to succeed. This New Zealand Pilsner recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's New Zealand Pilsner, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

The New Zealand pilsner is a young style, still provisional in the guidelines, and one of the clearest demonstrations of what the country's hops can do. It takes the crisp, pale body of a Continental pilsner and pours the fruit-forward New Zealand hop character over the top.

The result is pale gold and dry, a lager's clean malt backbone under an aroma of gooseberry, white grape, lime, and tropical fruit. It carries real bitterness, higher than most pilsners, but the hops read as juicy rather than sharp. Cold fermentation keeps everything crisp underneath.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 8 lbs · Pilsner (2 Row) Ger
  • 1 lbs · Carapils® → we include Great Chit
  • 8.0 oz · White Wheat Malt

Hops

  • 0.5 oz · Pacific Jade (Boil, 60.0 min) → we include Magnum
  • 0.5 oz · Pacific Jade (Boil, 5.0 min) → we include Magnum
  • 1 oz · Motueka (Aroma, 20.0 min) → we include Nectaron
  • 1 oz · Nelson Sauvin (Aroma, 20.0 min) → we include Nectaron

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
1.047 SG 		Final Gravity
1.008 SG 		ABV
5.1 % 		Bitterness
53.2 IBUs 		Color
3.4 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Great Chit in place of the recipe's Carapils®; Magnum in place of the recipe's Pacific Jade; Nectaron in place of the recipe's Motueka; Nectaron in place of the recipe's Nelson Sauvin. 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 New Zealand Pilsner. 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