Martin's Cheap IPA Recipe Kit

Brew this classic beer style at home in about five gallons. This American IPA recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Cheap IPA, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

This IPA is the budget half of a cheap-versus-expensive experiment, a lean American IPA built to show you do not need a long hop bill to make a good one. It leans on a single concentrated hop, LUPOMAX Mosaic, for berry and tropical aroma at a fraction of the usual quantity, over a simple pale grist.

The result is a clear, gold-to-amber IPA around 6% with a firm, clean bitterness near 60 IBU and plenty of Mosaic on the nose. Proof that one well-chosen hop, used smartly, can carry a beer that costs less to brew than its reputation suggests.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 10 lbs 12.0 oz · 2-row American Pale Malt (Briess) → we include 2-Row Pale Malt
• 12.0 oz · Caramunich I (Weyermann) → we include Crystal 50

Hops

• 1.75 oz · Mosaic Pellets (Boil, 30.0 min)
• 1.75 oz · Mosaic Pellets (Boil, 0.0 min)
• 1.75 oz · Mosaic Pellets (Dry Hop, 60.0 min)

Yeast

• Safale American (DCL/Fermentis US-05) → we include SafAle US-05 (American Ale)

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

Recipe At A Glance

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes 2-Row Pale Malt in place of the recipe's 2-row American Pale Malt (Briess); Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramunich I (Weyermann). We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle US-05 (American Ale) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Safale American (DCL/Fermentis US-05).