Brew Your Own Beer Starter Kit with Secret Mountain IPA Ale - 2-Gallons

Woodcock’s 2 Gallon Secret Mountain IPA Starter Kit

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

This kit pairs our Secret Mountain West Coast IPA ingredient kit with all the equipment you’ll need to brew, ferment and bottle a bold, assertive American IPA 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.

Secret Mountain is named for a remote mesa in the Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness north of Sedona. In the 1870s a Mormon family chose the isolated summit to practice polygamy in peace, reasoning no one would ever find them. They were wrong. Later, horse thieves used a cabin there to hide stolen livestock. The remnants of that cabin still stand. It seemed like the right name for a bold, unapologetic IPA that doesn’t hide what it is.

West Coast IPA is the style that launched the American craft beer revolution — assertive bitterness, bright Centennial and Simcoe hop aroma and a clean, dry finish. This is a serious beer with elevated alcohol and hop character. If you’re an IPA drinker who wants to brew the style you love most, this is your kit.

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.

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