The Best Specialty Beer Recipe Kits of 2023

Fresh Squished is the beer equivalent of visiting your local fruit stand. Flavors and aromas of grapefruit, melon, berries, lime and passionfruit drizzle into a faint herbal, piney background.

Based on a wildly popular beer produced in the Pacific Northwest, the combination of Citra and Mosaic hops is an instant classic.

Kit makes 5 gallons of finished beer.

Includes: Malt Extract, Specialty Steep Grains, Hops, Muslin Bag, Yeast, Priming Sugar, Complete Instructions

Late hops additions provide an extraordinary sipping experience full of luscious fruit flavors and aromas.

Brew your own strong but pale Trappist-style ale

ABV 8.7%

Includes premium German Perle and Saaz hops

Lighter in color than Dubbel but with a higher gravity and alcohol content

Beer Making Recipe Kit Yield: 5 Gallons

One of the signature brews of Bavaria, Hefeweizen is a medium-bodied, effervescent wheat beer practically exploding with yeast and wheat malt character

Makes 5 Gallons of home brew beer

Our hefeweizen beer kit is 100% traditional — cloudy, malty, and spicy, with a smooth mouthfeel and dense, whipped-cream head.

Kit Includes: Liquid and Dry Wheat Malt Extract, 1 ounce German Tettnang hops, Danstar Munich Dry Ale Yeast, Priming Sugar, Complete Brewing Instructions

Pronounced flavors of lemon, melon and herbal undertones make Lemondrop hops a natural fit for the fruity esters and spicy phenolics inherent to the classic Saison style.

Treat your taste buds to Lemondrop Saison!

Kit Includes: Malt Extract, Steeping Grains, Hops, Dry Yeast, Priming Sugar, Muslin Steeping Bag, Complete Instructions

Makes 5 Gallons of finished beer

Be sure to ferment this recipe on the warm side to ensure full flavor development and enjoy it while the sun shines.

Home brew your own English-style Barley Wine

ABV 9.45%

Includes 2 oz. Cascade and 1 oz. Willamette premium hops

Intense, concentrated malt flavor with vinous, dried fruit, and molasses notes

Beer Recipe Kit Yield: 5 Gallons

Irish Blonde Ale

ABV 6.43%

Includes 2 oz. premium Palisade hops

Creamy-textured, straw-gold ale

Suggestions of buttered toast, warm cereal, and a trace of fruity, herbal hops

Imperial Red Ale

ABV 10.5%

Includes premium Cascade and Centennial hops

Loaded with enough citrusy Northwest hops to keep any hop head happy while delivering boatloads of big chewy malt

Citrusy hop flavor buoys the beer with a lively freshness, while the bitter bite cuts through the sweetness and creates a superb balance

American Amber Ale

ABV 6.83%

Includes US Magnum and Styrian Goldings hops, plus Sweet Orange peel

Malty but not too sweet with just enough bitterness to balance

A definite but not overstated citrus hop profile (bolstered by real citrus!), this is far from your normal holiday ale

Styled after traditional southern English brown ales, our Nut Brown Ale recipe kit is a great all-around beer.

Complete with all the fresh ingredients you need, this beer recipe kit crafts an ale with a deep copper hue, fruity/caramelly flavor and aroma with toasty, chocolaty notes.

Original Gravity 1.044, Total Time to Make: 4 Weeks, Yields 5 Gallons

Each kit includes all the ingredients for 5 gallons of finished beer. Works with any 5 gallon beer brewing equipment kit. Just follow the simple instructions included with every kit, and within just a couple weeks, you’ll yield 5 gallons of homemade, handcrafted beer (approximately 40-50 twelve-ounce bottles) — more than enough to make an unforgettable impression at your next party.

Kit Includes: Malt Extract, Steeping Grains, Hops, Dry Yeast, Priming Sugar, Muslin Steeping Bag, Complete Instructions

A homebrewed “lawnmower beer” is pretty hard to beat as a summertime thirst-quencher.

An ale version of the light, fizzy American lager style, cream ale is a specialty of the eastern US.

Medium-bodied and smooth, gold in color and low in bitterness

Estimate Original Gravity of 1.040

Kit Includes: Specialty Steeping Grains, 6lbs of Pilsen Malt Extract Syrup, Cluster Bittering Hops, Safale US-05 Dry Ale Yeast, Priming Sugar (for bottle carbonation), Complete Brewing Instructions