Martin's Recycled Water German Helles Recipe Kit

Martin's Recycled Water German 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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This is a beer brewing kit built for a great first batch. This Munich Helles recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to

This is a beer brewing kit built for a great first batch. This Munich Helles recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Recycled Water German Helles, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

The hook here is the water. Martin brewed this Helles with recycled water to see whether the source would show through in a style this bare, and a pale Bavarian lager is about the most honest test there is. With almost no hops or roast to mask it, a Helles lives and dies on clean malt and clean water.

The beer itself is a straightforward Munich Helles, soft and bready from Pilsner malt, gently balanced by noble Hallertau, pale gold and dry at a touch over 5%. The kind of beer that reveals any flaw, which is exactly what made it a good experiment.

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 4.0 oz · Pilsner; German
  • 12.0 oz · Munich Malt
  • 4.0 oz · Biscuit Malt

Hops

  • 1.75 oz · Hersbrucker (Boil, 30.0 min) → we include Hallertau Mittelfrüh
  • 1.75 oz · Hersbrucker (Boil, 10.0 min) → we include Hallertau Mittelfrüh

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
1.045 SG 		Final Gravity
1.008 SG 		ABV
4.9 % 		Bitterness
33.4 IBUs 		Color
4.7 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Hallertau Mittelfrüh in place of the recipe's Hersbrucker. 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