Brew Your Own Beer Starter Kit with Clyde's Northern Brown Ale - 2-Gallons

Woodcock’s 2 Gallon Clyde’s Northern Brown Ale Starter Kit

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

This kit pairs our Clyde’s Northern Brown Ale ingredient kit with all the equipment you’ll need to brew, ferment and bottle a classic English-style brown 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.

Clyde’s Northern Brown is a natural choice for a first brew. Nutty, lightly malty and low in bitterness, it’s an approachable, forgiving style that delivers a genuinely satisfying finished beer without demanding anything complicated from the brewer. Named for Clyde Tombaugh, the Flagstaff astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930 — a man who understood the value of patient, methodical work.

What’s in the box:

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

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

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.

No temperature control needed

Our kits 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 or monitoring required. Pitch the whole packet 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.

Free shipping on all starter kits within the contiguous United States.

My guarantee

If you’re not happy with your kit for any reason, I’ll replace it or refund your order. No complicated process, no runaround. Just reach out and I’ll handle it personally.