Brew better beer at home with a recipe that is already dialed in. This Lichtenhainer recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Lichtenhainer, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

The Lichtenhainer is a nearly extinct beer from Thuringia, named for a village near Jena. Before smoke-free kilns became standard, most beer carried some woodsmoke, and this one made a virtue of it: a smoked wheat beer, lightly soured and low in strength, made for easy summer drinking.

It pours pale and hazy and reads like a tension between two flavors, campfire smoke on one side and a clean lactic tartness on the other. Hopping is barely there. At under four percent it was a working beer, refreshing in a way the smoke makes hard to predict until you taste it.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 3 lbs · Oak-Smoked Wheat → we include Smoked Malt
• 3 lbs · Pilsner (2 Row) Ger
• 1 lbs 8.0 oz · Munich Malt

Hops

• 1 oz · Saaz (Boil, 15.0 min)

Yeast

• German Ale (Wyeast Labs 1007) → we include SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch)
• Lactobacillus (Wyeast Labs 5335) (not included, add your own)

Water treatment salts and any specialty extras are noted with the recipe.

Recipe At A Glance

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Smoked Malt in place of the recipe's Oak-Smoked Wheat. We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's German Ale (Wyeast Labs 1007). Not included, add your own: Lactobacillus.