Trail Pace Session IPA | All-grain Recipe Kit | 5 Gallons
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Trail Pace Session IPA All-grain Recipe Kit for Session IPA Character
Trail Pace Session IPA is a lower-ABV IPA for brewers who want hop aroma and bitterness without the weight of a full-strength IPA. Session IPA became popular as a practical answer to bigger craft IPAs: keep the citrus, tropical, and pine character, but make the beer easier to enjoy over more than one pint.
This all-grain kit is designed to stay pale, dry, and aromatic while keeping enough malt body to avoid tasting thin. Choose it for hiking weekends, BBQs, club nights, and everyday draft pours when you want IPA flavor with a lighter finish.
This is the all-grain version. If you want the extract format for a different brew day, see the companion listing: Trail Pace Session IPA | Extract Recipe Kit | 5 Gallons.
Beer Profile
- Style: Session IPA
- Batch Size: 5 gallons
- Original Gravity: 1.045
- Final Gravity: 1.009
- ABV: 4.7%
- IBU: 45
- SRM: 5
- Fermentation Range: 64–68°F
Grain Milling
We automatically mill the grains included with SoCal Brewing Supply beer recipe kits so they are ready for brew day. If you want the grains left unmilled, please add that request in the shopping cart notes before checkout. We’ll do our best to support unmilled requests when packing your order.
Flavor and Brewing Character
Expect pale gold color, citrus peel, light tropical fruit, mild pine, firm but manageable bitterness, and a dry finish.
Fermentation Requirements
- Recommended fermentation range: 64–68°F.
- Pitch healthy yeast into fully chilled wort; do not pitch into hot wort.
- Use gravity readings, not airlock activity alone, to confirm fermentation is complete.
- Package only after gravity is stable and the beer tastes clean for the style.
Detailed Kit Contents
- American 2-Row Malt: 104 Ounces
- Vienna Malt: 16 Ounces
- Carafoam® / Dextrin Malt: 8 Ounces
- Citra Hops: 2 Ounces
- Mosaic Hops: 2 Ounces
- Centennial Hops: 1 Ounce
- Clean American Ale Yeast: 1 Sachet
Why Brewers Choose This Kit
This kit gives IPA drinkers a lower-ABV option that still smells and tastes hop-forward.
Brewing Notes
- Default grain handling: included grain is milled by default and packed together unless a listing or order note says otherwise.
- Mash around 151–152°F to preserve enough body for the lower gravity.
- Dry hop late and avoid oxygen pickup.
- Package promptly once hop aroma is where you want it.
Download the Trail Pace Session IPA all-grain brewing instructions PDF.
If you are bottle conditioning, Priming Sugar is sold separately. Use our Priming Sugar Calculator to calculate priming sugar from your actual packaged volume, beer temperature, and carbonation target.
If you are kegging, use our Keg Carbonation Calculator to match CO₂ pressure, serving temperature, and desired carbonation level before serving.
Brewing all-grain in a single vessel? A BIAB bag is a useful add-on for easier mash handling, grain removal, and cleanup.