Make beer at home that rivals your favorite taproom pour. This German Pils recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's German Pils, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

German Pils is the north's drier, sharper reading of the Bohemian original. When the pilsner style traveled from Plzen into Germany, brewers with harder water and a taste for bitterness pushed it toward a paler, crisper, more hop-forward beer. The result is straw-gold and brilliantly clear, defined by a firm bitterness and a spicy, floral noble-hop aroma.

Malt takes a supporting role, just a lean cracker note to carry the hops, and the beer attenuates well to a dry, clean finish that pulls you toward the next sip. Here it reaches past 36 IBUs, with Perle and Hallertau Mittelfruh supplying both the backbone and the aroma. It is the everyday pint of northern Germany for good reason.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 9 lbs · Pilsner; German

Hops

• 1.25 oz · Perle Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
• 0.5 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 10.0 min)
• 0.5 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 0.0 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

A Note On Substitutions

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).