Martin's Tropical Pale Ale with Steam Hops Recipe Kit

Martin's Tropical Pale Ale with Steam Hops Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style American Pale 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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It could be the easiest beer recipe you ever brew. This American Pale Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew

It could be the easiest beer recipe you ever brew. This American Pale Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Tropical Pale Ale with Steam Hops, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

This is a pale ale tuned for hop aroma over bitterness. The grist stays light and clean so a run of Cascade, Amarillo, and Citra can bring grapefruit, orange, and tropical fruit without much getting in the way. At around 5.5% it drinks easily for how much hop character it carries.

The recipe uses a steam-hopping step, adding hops to the hot vapor above the wort rather than straight into a rolling boil. The aim is to pull bright aroma from the hops while holding back the harsher bittering, so the finish reads juicy instead of sharp.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

  • 8 lbs · 2-row American Pale Malt (Briess) → we include 2-Row Pale Malt
  • 1 lbs 8.0 oz · Caramel 20
  • 1 lbs · Carapils® → we include Great Chit
  • 1 lbs · Wheat Malt; Pale

Hops

  • 1 oz · Cascade (Boil, 60.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Amarillo (Boil, 10.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Cascade (Boil, 10.0 min)
  • 1 oz · Citra (Boil, 10.0 min)

Yeast

  • Northwest Ale (Wyeast Labs 1332) → 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
1.056 SG 		Final Gravity
1.014 SG 		ABV
5.6 % 		Bitterness
53.6 IBUs 		Color
7.2 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes 2-Row Pale Malt in place of the recipe's 2-row American Pale Malt (Briess); Great Chit in place of the recipe's Carapils®. We stock dry yeast only, so LalBrew BRY-97 (West Coast Ale) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Northwest Ale (Wyeast Labs 1332).

  • 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 Pale 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