Brew Your Own Beer Starter Kit with Red Mountain Amber Ale - 2-Gallons

Woodcock’s 2 Gallon Red Mountain Amber Ale Starter Kit

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

This kit pairs our Red Mountain Amber Ale ingredient kit with all the equipment you’ll need to brew, ferment and bottle a classic American Amber 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.

Red Mountain is named for an extinct volcanic cinder cone just off Highway 180 on the way to the Grand Canyon — part of the San Francisco Volcanic Field that erupted about 740,000 years ago. Erosion has opened its interior into a dramatic natural amphitheater filled with rust-red hoodoos and pillars that glow against the surrounding ponderosa forest. The color is striking enough to stop traffic. The name is straightforward. So is the beer.

Red Mountain Amber is a medium bodied ale with warm caramel and nutty malt character balanced by assertive Centennial hops. Approachable enough for any occasion, flavorful enough to be interesting. One of the most reliably satisfying styles in American craft brewing and a great choice for a first batch.

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.