Martin's American Amber Ale Recipe Kit

Martin's American Amber Ale Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style American Amber Ale, one of the 99 beers Martin Keen brewed during his Homebrew Challenge.
  • Every fermentable, hop, and yeast portioned and matched to the recipe, so there is no math and no guesswork on brew day.
  • Sized for a 5-gallon batch and ready for all-grain or brew-in-a-bag, so it works with whatever homebrew gear you already own.
  • Fresh ingredients, shipped fast, so your brew day starts with the good stuff.
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Start your homebrewing hobby with an easy beer recipe. This American Amber Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's

Start your homebrewing hobby with an easy beer recipe. This American Amber Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's American Amber Ale, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

American Amber Ale grew up alongside the pale ale on the West Coast, trading some of the pale's brightness for a deeper caramel malt core. The extra crystal malt gives it color and a toffee sweetness that stands up to a firm hop charge, making it the maltier, more balanced cousin of the APA.

The pour is amber to light copper and clear. Special B adds a raisiny depth beneath the caramel, while Centennial and Amarillo bring citrus and stone fruit on top. At around 5% it stays sessionable, and that malt-to-hop balance is what has kept drinkers on the style for decades.

What's In The Kit

Your American Amber Ale recipe kit includes everything below, portioned and ready to brew. All you add is water.

Fermentables

  • 8 lbs · Pale Malt (2 Row) US
  • 1 lbs · Crystal 45 → we include Crystal 50
  • 1 lbs · Victory Malt
  • 8.0 oz · Special B

Hops

  • 0.4 oz · Centennial (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Amarillo (Boil, 10.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · Centennial (Boil, 5.0 min)

Yeast

  • American Ale II (Wyeast Labs 1272) → we include LalBrew BRY-97 (West Coast Ale)

Water treatment salts and any specialty extras are noted with the recipe.

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.051 SG 		Final Gravity
1.013 SG 		ABV
5.0 % 		Bitterness
36.6 IBUs 		Color
15.7 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Crystal 45. We stock dry yeast only, so LalBrew BRY-97 (West Coast Ale) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's American Ale II (Wyeast Labs 1272).

  • This kit is built for brew-in-a-bag (BIAB), the simplest way to make all-grain beer at home. The basic brew day looks like this:

    1. Heat your water and steep the milled grain to make wort.
    2. Boil the wort, adding the hops on the schedule in the recipe.
    3. Cool the wort down quickly, then transfer it to your fermenter.
    4. Pitch the yeast and let it ferment for about two weeks.
    5. Bottle or keg, wait for carbonation, then enjoy.

    That yields roughly 53 bottles of fresh American Amber Ale. It works great with our digital electric homebrew systems, which hold your temperatures for you, though any kettle and burner will do.

  • This is a recipe kit, so it includes the ingredients only. To brew it at home you will also need:

    • A brew kettle or an electric all-in-one brewing system
    • A grain bag for brew-in-a-bag (or a mash tun for a traditional mash)
    • A fermenter with an airlock
    • A thermometer and a way to chill the wort
    • Sanitizer, and bottles or a keg for packaging