This is how easy brewing beer at home should be. This Eisbock recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Eisbock, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Eisbock is the strongest member of the bock family, made by freezing a finished doppelbock and pulling out the ice to concentrate what remains. The story, likely apocryphal, credits a Kulmbach cellar hand who left barrels out in winter and found the unfrozen core stronger and smoother. Whatever the origin, the method leaves a dark, intense lager with deepened malt sweetness and a warming finish.

At eight percent this recipe sits at the softer end of the style, plenty of body and dark-fruit malt depth without the heat of the most extreme examples. Perle and Tettnang stay quiet so the concentrated malt holds center stage. Sip it slowly from a small glass.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 9 lbs · Pilsner; German
• 7 lbs 12.0 oz · Munich II (Weyermann) → we include Munich Malt
• 1 lbs · Caramunich® III → we include Crystal 50
• 4.0 oz · Carafa II

Hops

• 1.5 oz · Perle Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min)
• 0.5 oz · Tettnang Pellets (Boil, 20.0 min)

Yeast

• 2 packets · 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

This kit includes Munich Malt in place of the recipe's Munich II (Weyermann); Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramunich® III. 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).