New from Flash Brewing®
Oktoberfest Festbier, without the months of lagering.
A traditional Festbier costs you a full brew day and months of cold lagering before it's ready. This one is ten minutes of mixing, no boil and no kettle. Flash Yeast™ finishes it clean at warm room temperature, and several days of cold conditioning is all it needs before you pour.
10 minBrew day
5.6%Est. ABV
30Est. IBUs
2 or 5 galBatch size
Pick your batch size
Same recipe either way — Munich malt, a single charge of Hallertau Mittelfrüh, and Flash Yeast™. Add it to your cart and keep shopping.
Oktoberfest Festbier — 2 Gallon
Makes about 2 gallons. Ferments in any wide-mouth 3-gallon fermenter.
$24.99
Oktoberfest Festbier — 5 Gallon
Makes about 5 gallons — roughly two cases. Needs a 6- or 7-gallon fermenter.
$39.99Three steps, no kettle
Normal brewing means an hour of boiling and another hour of cooling. The malt in a Flash Brewing kit is already boiled and whirlpooled before it's dried, so both of those hours come off the schedule.
01
Mix
Stir the Oktoberfest Flash Malt™, the Hallertau pellets, and the HopBite™ shot into water in your fermenter, then pitch the Flash Yeast™. No kettle, no stove, no chilling.
10 minutes
02
Ferment
Seal it and walk away. Flash Yeast™ starts fast and finishes clean at warm room temperature, so a Festbier this malty doesn't need a lager fridge or a temp controller.
1–2 weeks, hands-off
03
Cold condition
Bottle or keg, then give it several days cold around 40°F. That's where it settles, clears, and the malt smooths out. A traditional Festbier needs months of this. Yours needs days.
Several days coldWhat's in the glass
Festbier is the malt-forward style traditionally brewed in spring and poured through the fall harvest. Munich malt builds the toasty, bready core, and Caravienne and Caramunich push it to a deep copper with biscuit, light caramel, and a little toffee behind it.
Hallertau Mittelfrüh is the only hop in the recipe. It brings gentle bitterness and the classic noble aroma of light spice and floral herb, then gets out of the way. The balance stays traditional and easy-drinking, with the German malt character out front.
Flash Yeast™ is what makes the timeline work. It ferments clean even when it's warm, so you get a smooth, malt-focused Festbier without waiting months on a traditional lager fermentation. Several days of cold conditioning before serving will help the beer settle, smooth out, and come together even further.
What ships to you
2 Gallon kit
- Oktoberfest Flash Malt™ — 2.6 lbs
- Hallertau Mittelfrüh pellet hops — 0.5 oz
- HopBite™ 30 IBU shot
- Flash Yeast™
- Flash Brewing® instructions
5 Gallon kit
- Oktoberfest Flash Malt™ — 6.5 lbs
- Hallertau Mittelfrüh pellet hops — 1 oz
- HopBite™ 30 IBU shot
- Flash Yeast™
- Flash Brewing® instructions
Priming sugar isn't included. For bottling we recommend PopTops™ swing-top bottles and Pop Shots carbonation tablets.
What you need to ferment it
A wide-mouth fermenter is the only requirement — wide enough that you can pour the ingredients straight in.
Already brewing
The 2-gallon kit ferments in any wide-mouth 3-gallon fermenter you own; the 3-gallon Fermonster is a good match. The 5-gallon kit needs a 6- or 7-gallon fermenter, like the 7-gallon Fermonster.
First batch
If you don't have a fermenter yet, the Flash Brewing® Starter Kit comes with everything you need in one box. Browse the rest of the range in Flash Brewing® Kits.
Mix it this weekend, pour it at Oktoberfest.
Ten minutes of work, a couple of weeks of fermentation, several days cold. A traditional Festbier spends months in the cold before it's drinkable. This one is ready in that first week of October.
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