2 Gallon Powell’s American Pale Ale Brew Your Own Beer Starter Kit

Woodcock’s 2 Gallon Powell’s Pale Ale Starter Kit

Everything you need to brew your first batch of beer, in one box.

This kit pairs our Powell’s Pale Ale ingredient kit with all the equipment you’ll need to brew, ferment and bottle a classic American Pale Ale at home. Two gallons makes almost a case of beer — enough to share, enough to be proud of, small enough to brew in a standard kitchen without taking over your life.

Powell’s Pale Ale is a natural choice for a first brew. It’s a well-rounded, honest beer — crisp and clean with strong Cascade hop aroma and a touch of caramel malt underneath. Flavorful enough to be interesting, familiar enough to be approachable. The kind of beer that makes you want to brew another one as soon as the first batch is gone.

What’s in the box:

Ingredients: Dry malt extract blend, specialty grains, hops, Velo ale yeast, muslin grain bag, carbonation drops and bottle caps.

Equipment: 3-gallon fermenting bucket with lid, airlock and rubber stopper, auto-siphon, siphon tubing, bottle filler, bottle capper and floating thermometer.

Step-by-step brewing instructions.

You’ll also need: An 8-quart or larger pot, about 22 clean 12-ounce bottles — rinsed empties from your favorite craft brewery work perfectly — and 3 gallons of drinking water. That’s it.

Why no temperature control?

Most brewing kits require careful temperature control during fermentation. Ours don’t. We use a specially selected ale yeast that ferments cleanly across a remarkably wide temperature range — all the way up to 94°F — with no special equipment, no thermometer monitoring, no stress. Pitch the whole packet directly into your wort and let it work. Brew it in your kitchen in July or January and it performs the same way.

Why 2 gallons?

It’s the Goldilocks batch size. One gallon is too small to be worth the effort. Five gallons requires a large pot, a large fermenter and produces more beer than most beginners want to manage. Two gallons brews in a standard stockpot, ferments in a bucket that fits on a shelf and produces almost a case of finished beer. Enough to actually enjoy.

The Dry Malt Difference

Our kits are made exclusively with dry malt extract. It’s more expensive than liquid malt extract but it doesn’t darken or pick up off flavors with age and temperature the way liquid extract does. Fresher ingredients, truer flavors — that’s why we’ve always used it and always will.

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