Homemade beer, made simple and made fresh. This German Leichtbier recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's German Leichtbier, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Leichtbier is the German take on a light beer: a low-strength, low-calorie lager brewed to keep as much flavor as possible at a fraction of the gravity. At around 3 percent it is lighter than almost anything else in the German canon, yet it still aims for the crisp, hop-touched profile of a pils rather than the watery character the word "light" usually implies.

Pilsner malt and a little biscuit give a lean, grainy base, while a mix of noble and Styrian hops keeps a gentle spicy-floral note through the finish. It is a beer designed for volume and refreshment, and the trick to brewing it well is holding onto flavor when there is so little malt to work with.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 6 lbs · Pilsner; German
• 8.0 oz · Victory Malt

Hops

• 1 oz · Styrian Golding Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
• 0.5 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 5.0 min)
• 1 oz · Saaz Pellets (Boil, 0.0 min)

Yeast

• German Ale/Kolsch (White Labs WLP029) → we include SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch)

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

Recipe At A Glance

A Note On Substitutions

We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's German Ale/Kolsch (White Labs WLP029).