Kolsch Homebrew Recipe

Kolsch Homebrew Recipe

Type- Kolsch
Average Beer Rating- 3

Description:
This Kolsch Homebrew recipe produces a crisp, clean and easy drinking ale. The beer has a straw yellow hue similar to a pilsner, but it is less hoppy, a bit sweeter and uses light malts and a small amount of wheat. The ABV for this Kolsch recipe is 4.25-4.75%.

Ingredients:
Fermentables
3.3 lb. Extra Light LME
2 lb. Wheat DME

Specialty Grains
12 oz. Carapils

Hops
2 oz. Mt. Hood

Yeast
1 Sachet

Directions:
1. Pour 2.5 gallons of clean water into your brew pot and begin to heat.
2. Pour crushed grains into a grain bag and tie a loose knot at the top of the bag.
3. When water is between 150-165F place the grain bag in the brew pot. (Make sure your water does not exceed 170F.)
4. Steep for 20-minutes.
5. Remove the grain bag and without squeezing allow the liquid to drain back into your brew pot/ wort.
6. Bring your wort back to a boil and stir in the 3.3 lb. Extra Light LME. (Make sure that the malt extracts do not burn on the bottom of the brew pot.)
7. Add 1 oz. Mt. Hops and boil for 30-minutes. (Make sure the wort doesn’t boil over.)
8. Add the other 1 oz. Mt. Hops and boil for 20-minutes.
9. Add 2 lb. of Wheat DME and boil for 5-minutes.
10. Terminate the boil and cool the wort to approximately 70F.
11. Once cooled, add to a sanitized fermenter (make sure you don’t pour all of the sediment.)
12. Add enough clean water to the fermenter to bring your wort to the 5-gallon mark.
13. Pitch the yeast and cover with the fermenter lid.
14. Let the beer to ferment for 2-weeks.

Additional Tips
1. On bottling day, dissolve 3/4 cup of corn sugar in 16 oz. water.
2. Keep your bottles between 62-75F to ensure proper maturation.

Beer Reviews:
Tobin’s Review 3 out of 5
This Kolsch Homebrew Recipe produces a beer with a clear golden color and a pretty looking head. The beer has a decent amount of carbonation and smells a little yeasty (in a good way.) It is soft at first, but has a little bite in the back of the throat. It tastes very similar to a German Lager, but it has a fruiter malt and a slightly hoppy flavors. At the end of the day, it gives you German beer burps- not a bad recipe.

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