Martin's Pumpkin Beer Recipe Kit

Martin's Pumpkin Beer 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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There is no simpler way to brew your own beer. This American Amber Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew

There is no simpler way to brew your own beer. This American Amber Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Pumpkin Beer, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Pumpkin beer is one of the oldest American styles, dating to colonial times when settlers short on barley fermented what they had, gourds included. The modern version is less about pumpkin flesh and more about the pie, an amber ale base laced with baking spice. It pours copper, with a toasty, bready malt character underneath.

Here the malt does the groundwork, with aromatic and Munich grains for a bready base, and Northern Brewer keeps the hopping restrained so the spice can sit forward. You add your own ginger root and nutmeg during the brew, which lets you set the spice level to taste rather than following someone else's hand.

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

  • 7 lbs · 2-row American Pale Malt (Briess) → we include 2-Row Pale Malt
  • 2 lbs · Aromatic Malt
  • 2 lbs · Munich Malt
  • 2 lbs · Victory Malt

Hops

  • 1 oz · Northern Brewer (Boil, 60.0 min)

Yeast

  • American Ale (Wyeast Labs 1056) → we include SafAle US-05 (American Ale)

Other Additions

  • 1.00 tsp · Ginger Root (not included, add your own)
  • 1.00 tsp · Cinnamon Stick
  • 1.00 tsp · Nutmeg (not included, add your own)

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

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.063 SG 		Final Gravity
1.012 SG 		ABV
6.6 % 		Bitterness
25.6 IBUs 		Color
13.0 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes 2-Row Pale Malt in place of the recipe's 2-row American Pale Malt (Briess). We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle US-05 (American Ale) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's American Ale (Wyeast Labs 1056). Not included, add your own: 1.00 tsp Ginger Root; 1.00 tsp Nutmeg.

  • 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