Martin's Cream Ale Recipe Kit

This is how easy brewing beer at home should be. This Cream Ale recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's Cream Ale, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

Cream Ale is an American original from the era when ale breweries needed an answer to the pale lagers taking over the market. What they came up with was a light, crisp, gently sweet ale, often fermented cool or blended with lager, that could match a pilsner for refreshment while using ale brewers' existing equipment.

It pours pale gold and drinks smooth and clean, with a soft corn-driven sweetness and a low, unobtrusive bitterness. There is no cream in it: the name points to the smooth texture, not any ingredient. Light-bodied and easy, it is a porch beer with a bit more character than a mass-market lager.

What's In The Kit

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

Fermentables

• 9 lbs 4.0 oz · Pilsner; German
• 8.0 oz · Sugar; Corn (Dextrose)

Hops

• 0.5 oz · Liberty Pellets (Boil, 60.0 min) → we include Hallertau Mittelfrüh
• 0.5 oz · Liberty Pellets (Boil, 10.0 min) → we include Hallertau Mittelfrüh

Yeast

• Cream Ale Yeast Blend (White Labs WLP080) → we include SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch)

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

Recipe At A Glance

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Hallertau Mittelfrüh in place of the recipe's Liberty Pellets. We stock dry yeast only, so SafAle K-97 (German Ale / Kölsch) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's Cream Ale Yeast Blend (White Labs WLP080).