Extract Beer Kits

Rich and complex with a strong malty sweetness that finishes moderately dry. Dried fruit and dark caramel flavors are balanced with a slightly spicy fruitiness derived from the Belgian yeast. This is a beer that will surely improve and develop with age!

A dark, malty brown ale with caramel and chocolate notes that is nicely balanced. Medium and dark crystal paired with chocolate and roasted barley and some wheat for head retention. Willamette for bittering and flavoring hops. Use Wyeast British, 1098 for more of an English flavor profile.

This Berliner Weisse style beer is light and dry with a tart finish. Highly refreshing and low in alcohol content make this ale a great thirst quencher.

This classic US craft style beer is a rich amber color, with a full malt character. Has a highly refreshing woodsy hop aroma and clean bite that makes this beer a standout. A true genuine craft classic.

This recipe will yield 2 gallons of beer in approximately 2 weeks. The kit includes the following items:

• 1 Can Hopped Malt Extract (HME)
• 1 Packet Dry Brewing Yeast

A big, West Coast Double IPA crammed with loads of aroma hops! Piney the Welder is a clone of another similarly-named "elder" beer that has been named the #1 beer in America by the AHA many times over. It gets its bitterness from hop extract, delivering a good hop bite and character that balances out the maltiness of the beer. Using a little bit of Crystal 60L and Carapils to give the beer character. A plethora of American hops give this beer big hop flavor and aroma. Three huge, very American hops contribute to this hoppiness: Centennial, Columbus and Simcoe. With a load of hops going in at the end of the boil and at dry hop time, Piney comes out like liquid hop nectar. The perfect double IPA for true hop heads!

This recipe has stood the test of time. First brewed over 13 years ago and has been a Great Fermentations standard ever since. With an original gravity of around 1.054, this beer is so flavorful that it drinks as a much bigger beer. A rich unsweetened to semi-sweet chocolate palate comes from a pound of chocolate malt and 4 oz. of debitterized black. The palate is rounded out with some 60L crystal and enough Cluster hops to bitter. We suggest Wyeast 1007 German Ale for a dry finish or 1728 Scottish Ale for a more malty finish. Want to change it up? Add cacao nibs or cold-pressed coffee in the secondary.

A blend of 3 hop varieties are added throughout the boil to create a massive citrusy hop flavor with a great floral aroma. The specialty malts include Simpson's medium crystal, carapils and amber malts to help round out the taste.

Spicy rye malt combined with a load of American hops creates an explosion of taste in your mouth. Citrus and grapefruit notes from the hops are well balanced by a huge malt backbone made up of munich, medium crystal, carapils, flaked wheat and the subtle spiciness from the rye.

Roasty, smooth, and highly drinkable! This is a classic Irish Stout with plenty of dark roasted malts that add to the coffee, chocolate, and caramel flavors. Bittered with Cluster and with an East Kent golding addition at 30 minutes. Wyeast Irish Ale 1084 completes the flavor.

This beer has a rich golden color, exceptionally well balanced full malt flavor and mild bitterness, with a subtle hint of finishing hop aroma. A great beer for all occasions, this beer is the perfect example of the typical American lager style.

This recipe will yield 2 gallons of beer in approximately 2 weeks. The kit includes the following items:

• 1 Can Hopped Malt Extract (HME)
• 1 Packet Dry Brewing Yeast

What could be better than a rich, malty traditional German-style bock? How about one that you made yourself? Our Bock of Ages is a delicious bock that uses Munich as the majority of the base for a bready, malty flavor. Add some melanoidin and Special B malts for character and a slight stone fruit sweetness, and balance that with some Magnum hops. With that, you've got a bock suitable for even the most lederhosen-laden beer festivalst! Why travel all the way to Germany when you can enjoy the taste of authentic German beer in the comfort of your own personal biergarten? Brew up the Bock of Ages for your friends and family!

Similar to an American pale ale but different biscuit overtones and a woody/rosemary-ish hop profile from the style's signature Northern Brewer hops.

A true English style robust porter, straight out of the pages of history! The Dark Side Robust Porter uses a healthy dose of Brown malt, a malt that porters traditionally used as their base, to add a heavy robust character to the beer. Notes of coffee flow forth in the flavor profile, aided by some chocolate malt and balanced by some crystal malts from the U.K. Add some English Fuggle hops on top, and you've got a robust porter that finishes big with a hint of sweetness. Once you go to the dark side, you may never go back!

A spiced delight! St. Gambrinus's Spiced Holiday Ale makes use of a rich assortment of grains to give it a refined malt backbone. Honey, Munich II and Simpson's dark crystal malts combine to give this ale a character orange color and a delicious malty sweetness. Add to this an array of spices, and you have one of the best holiday ales a homebrewer could put on their holiday wish list! Cinnamon, ginger and orange peel appear in the boil, and the spice character is solidified by adding more cinnamon, cardamom and allspice into secondary. A truly enjoyable ale with which to ring in the holiday season! Please note that the spices called for in this recipe, are not included in the kit. You'll have to raid your pantry or your local grocery store for these.

Crisp and refreshing! Ich Bin Ein Pilsner is a classic German Pilsner originally developed by a former Great Fermentations employee who has gone on to greener pastures and sweeping the 2015 Indiana Brewer's Cup in the professional category! The recipe is relatively simple, but then again, so is a truly good German Pils! Nothing more than some Pilsner malt and noble Saaz hops round out this recipe, which lead to a crisp, refreshing Pilsner beer that can be enjoyed by all. While a traditional lager yeast can be used to ferment this beer, using the California Lager yeast can lead to great lager without too cool of temperatures.

Who can forget childhood memories of gingerbread houses, adorned with sweet, creamy icing and tasting of exotic spices? Our Gingerbread Brown Ale attempts to bring back these memories in a form more suited to mature palates. An array of specialty grains gives this beer its brown color, its sweetness, and its chocolate-roasted notes. Molasses, combined with an assortment of seasonal spices, gives this beer a distinct flavor of gingerbread. Pouring a thick brown, the nose will delight and the taste will dazzle your tongue. Soft and delicious like the homemade gingerbread recipes handed down throughout the ages, this beer is sure to please! Please note that the spices called for in this recipe, are not included in the kit. You'll have to raid your pantry or your local grocery store for these.

A pound of medium crystal, a little wheat for head retention and a bit of roasted barley for color. Five HBUS of Willamette for bitterness. Think malty red ale for the masses.

A big West Coast style imperial IPA, with loads of late addition hops and a quarter pound of dry hops. It finishes nice and dry, and is dangerously easy to drink. Additions of Columbus, Simcoe, and Nugget lend big, pungent American hop flavors, with a giant, heady aroma that punches you in the nose. Heady Nugz is, in fact, a beer that makes a completely irresponsible use of hops. If you are a certified hophead, this beer will be right up your alley!
A yeast starter or two packs of liquid yeast are suggested for this big boy

A very balanced pale ale with a strong floral aroma from the Columbus dry hop. Light in color and body but full in flavor, this is the perfect beer to pair with your favorite barbeque!

Our secret ingredients are caramel wheat, melanoidin and chocolate wheat for layers of flavors. Spalt and hallertau are used at the beginning of the boil and at 30 minutes.

Rich, complex caramel flavors from a combination of 20L, 60L and Special B crystal malt paired with the maltiness of munich. Carapils adds body and wheat adds head retention. Three additions of Glacier hops and Cascade at flameout.