Martin's Rauchbier Recipe Kit

One kit, one brew day, five gallons of beer you made yourself. This Rauchbier recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Rauchbier, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Rauchbier is the smoked lager of Bamberg, in Franconia, where a few historic breweries still malt their barley over open beechwood fires. That smoke carries straight into the beer, giving an aroma and flavor often compared to smoked ham or a wood fire, layered over an amber, Marzen-style malt base. The first sip surprises; by the third glass it makes complete sense.

Under the smoke sits a properly built lager: toasty Munich malt, a clean fermentation, and enough hop to hold it in balance. The smoke is bold but not acrid, and it fades into a smooth, malty finish. It is one of the most distinctive beers in the German canon, and a genuinely rewarding one to brew.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 9 lbs · Cherry Wood Smoked Malt
• 1 lbs · Cherry Wood Smoked Malt → we include Munich Malt
• 4.0 oz · Carafa® Special II
• 4.0 oz · Caramunich® I → we include Crystal 50

Hops

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

This kit includes Munich Malt in place of part of the recipe's Cherry Wood Smoked Malt; Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramunich® I. 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).