Youngs American IPA, 4.0 Kg Beer Kit
Nothing excites the craft beer drinker more than an IPA, almost the flagship beer of the American Craft beer Revolution.
This beer is far different from the sub 4% beers found in some pubs; it has more in common with the traditional IPA’s brewed in the 18th century.
Those beers were brewed to slake the thirst of the British troops garrisoned in India and were heavily hopped and relatively high in alcohol to survive the arduous journey round the southern tip of South Africa.
These days American IPA’s are brewed to be drunk fresh and use obscene amounts of fragrant American hops that give them their unique pine, fruit salad and floral character. Young's used three of the most popular and heavily sought after hops Simcoe, Centennial and Chinook.
Chinook and Centennial are classic American hops, beautiful and fragrant they exude grapefruit and floral character, the Simcoe tempers this fruit character with its more savoury pine resin character.
Young's Home Brew US West Coast ale yeast strain sourced from an American craft brewery giving such a clean fermentation profile these hops shine through explosively giving you a fantastic IPA to brew at home that will rival the world’s best!
Young's Home Brew American IPA Pours like a true IPA, pale gold with a fluffy white head, the aroma of this beer hits you immediatley, intense pine and grapefruit character a side of tropical fruit salad.
On the palate this beer has just enough malt to hold the crazy amounts of hops thats been put in it giving you a riot of flavours tending toward the pine resin from the Simcoe, bitterness is full on refresing the palate and inviting another sip.
Customer reviews
Most popular with friends
This one is a reliable brew and is popular with friends who do not drink too much craft beer. Safe to give away as gifts. No fermenting issues can go over the 25 degrees goes to sleep under 21 so watch the temp. Invest in a heat pad its much easier to keep it at 22+deg. Leave the hop addition until its nearly there on SG . Overall its v nice and good if the mates are calling.
A Gallagher | Mayo | December 2020
Fantastic!
Had to give these Youngs kits a go as I've only heard good things. I wasn't disappointed!
Kit comes with a very generous amount of yeast and dry hop addition.
Fermented at 22C and was done after 2 weeks in the fermenter. Fully carbed after 1 week.
Had to sample it after about 10 days in the bottle. Already it blew me away. Comparable with any craft beer you might buy. If it's this delicious now it'll be amazing in a couple more weeks. IPAs are meant to be drunk fresh so you Don't lose any of that hop aroma.
I have moved on to all grain brewing, but am struggling to justify the time commitment. But if you can brew beer this good from a kit I'm seriously going to have to re-evaluate!
I can't recommend this kit enough and will definitely be trying the other styles in the range.
Cheers!
Jonathan Gilburd | Galway | July 2022