Martin's Schwarzbier Recipe Kit

Martin's Schwarzbier Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style Schwarzbier, 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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Quality homebrew ingredients, portioned for an easy brew day. This Schwarzbier recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Schwarzbier, a

Quality homebrew ingredients, portioned for an easy brew day. This Schwarzbier recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Schwarzbier, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Schwarzbier is Germany's black lager, at home in Thuringia and Saxony, with Bad Koestritz and Kulmbach among its best-known homes. It looks like a stout but drinks like a lager: nearly opaque in the glass, yet light in body and dry on the finish. The dark malts give color and a faint cocoa note without the harsh roast of a porter or stout.

This one runs around five percent, using Carafa and chocolate malt for the near-black color, Munich malt for backbone, and Perle and Hallertau Mittelfrueh for a clean noble balance. Ferment it cold and it comes out crisp, the kind of dark beer you can drink a few of without fatigue.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 5 lbs · Pilsner; German
  • 4 lbs · Munich Malt - 10L
  • 8.0 oz · Carafa II
  • 8.0 oz · Caramunich® I → we include Crystal 50
  • 4.0 oz · Chocolate Malt

Hops

  • 1 oz · Perle Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 5.0 min)

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
1.049 SG 		Final Gravity
1.011 SG 		ABV
5.0 % 		Bitterness
33.9 IBUs 		Color
28.3 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramunich® I. 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 Schwarzbier. 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