Brew classic beer styles at home with real confidence. This Kölsch recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Kolsch, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Kolsch belongs to Cologne, and by agreement among the city's brewers the name legally applies only to beer made there. It is a hybrid: fermented warm with ale yeast, then conditioned cold like a lager, which gives it a pale straw color and a delicate, soft-bready malt with a faint fruitiness that a true lager would not have. Bitterness is present but polite.

Traditionally it is served in the stange, a slim cylindrical glass, and refilled almost automatically until you set a coaster on top to signal you are done. The beer is subtle to the point of being tricky, since its clean, wine-like crispness leaves little to cover any misstep.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 6 lbs · Pilsner; German
• 4 lbs · Vienna Malt

Hops

• 2 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
• 0.5 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 15.0 min)

Yeast

• German Ale (Wyeast Labs 1007) → 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 (Wyeast Labs 1007).