Brewing your own beer just got a whole lot simpler. This Märzen recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Marzen, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Marzen is the original Oktoberfest beer, named for March, when Bavarian brewers made it before summer brewing was banned, then lagered it in cool cellars until autumn. It pours amber to deep copper and leads with toasty, bready Munich and Vienna malt and a touch of caramel, then closes clean and dry so the maltiness never turns heavy. Hopping is low, there only to balance.

This is the beer the festival was built on, before the lighter golden Festbier took over the tents in recent decades. It is richer and more toasted than its modern replacement, and to plenty of drinkers it remains the truer taste of the season.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 7 lbs · Vienna Malt
• 3 lbs · Munich Malt - 10L
• 8.0 oz · Aromatic Malt
• 8.0 oz · Caramel 60 → we include Crystal 50
• 8.0 oz · Carapils® → we include Great Chit
• 8.0 oz · Wheat Malt; White

Hops

• 0.75 oz · Perle Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
• 0.5 oz · Hallertauer Pellets (Boil, 15.0 min)
• 0.5 oz · Tettnang Pellets (Boil, 0.0 min)

Yeast

• Octoberfest/Marzen Lager (White Labs WLP820) → 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

This kit includes Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramel 60; Great Chit in place of the recipe's Carapils®. We stock dry yeast only, so SafLager W-34/70 (German Lager) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Octoberfest/Marzen Lager (White Labs WLP820).