Brew your own bold, resinous West Coast-style pale ale at home with our Resin Trail Fresh Wort Beer Kit. Simply add water, ferment, and add your dry hops 3 days before packaging for a punchy, pine-forward brew that’s unmistakably West Coast. Perfect for home brewers looking for a crisp, hop-driven pale ale.

Resin Trail delivers a bold West Coast experience, emphasizing crisp bitterness, resinous pine, and subtle citrus. This kit is designed for simplicity and maximum hop aroma, perfect for both novice and experienced home brewers.

Flavour Profile
Taste: Bright, clean bitterness upfront, balanced by a subtle malt backbone. The dry hop adds resinous pine, fresh forest notes, and a touch of grapefruit that lingers on the palate.

Mouthfeel: Light to medium body with a crisp, dry finish. Perfectly drinkable while packing a punch of classic West Coast hop character.

Finish: Long, dry, and aromatic with pine and resin dominance, leaving a refreshing, clean aftertaste.

Aromas: Fresh pine, resin, forest-like hops with: Citrus hints from Centennial and subtle berry notes from Simcoe

Fresh Wort Kits are an amazing way to produce commercial quality beer at home with basic equipment. No experience of home brewing is required, simply follow the instructional videos and share awesome beer with your friends and family.

Unlike traditional beer kits that are made from malt extract, our Fresh Wort Kits are produced in a professional brew house into bag in a box style packaging. This means all the fresh flavours the team at the brewery magic into their wort are available for our customers to then complete the brewing process at home.

Simply pour the Fresh Wort Kit into a fermenter, top up to 24ltrs and add the yeast. Commercial beer at home with ease.

Ingredients Included

Centennial – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets (30 grams)
Simcoe T90 Pellets (60 grams)
WHC Dried Yeast – High Voltage – 11g Packet (1 pack)
Fresh Wort – Base 6 – IPA (1 pack)

Method

Beer Style (main): American Ales
Beer Style (sub): Session India Pale Ale
Batch Size: 24L
Original Gravity: 1.050
Final Gravity: 1.012
ABV %: 5.2
IBU: 50

Yeast: WHC High Voltage
Fermentation temperature/steps: 30c

Secondary additions:Dry Hop

When fermentation is complete reduce temperature to 14c if possible, then add the following dry hop additions in the hop sock provided.

60g Simcoe
30g Centennial

After 1 day cold crash to 4c if possible, this will help you to clear the beer.
After the hops have been in for 48hrs and you can safely remove them with a sanitised spoon without risk of infecting the beer then remove them.

We are also including a dose of brausol, this should be added when you have the beer cold and 24hrs before you intend to package the beer. Add and gently stir the surface with a sanitised spoon.

The fresh wort IPA base is made in a professional brewery using the following ingredients:

Grain Bill used for Fresh Wort

90% Pilsner Malt
5% Dextrin
5% Wheat

Kettle Additions in Fresh Wort

427g/hl Mosaic – Whirlpool 20 mins @ 80c
256g/hl Citra – Whirlpool 20 mins @ 80c

To brew this West Coast Pale Ale dilute with 9L of water to bring total volume to 24L, this will provide you with a starting OG of 1.050.

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