Need 6 gallons of distilled water. 5 for boil, 1 for topping off fermenter so you hit 5.5 gallon target.

Heat 3 gallons of water to 160 degrees.

Steep 1 lb of flaked oats and the 2lbs of caramel for 30 minutes at 160 degrees. Remove.

Add 2 gallons of water, the LME and bring to a boil.

Add 2oz of Citra at start of the 30 min boil - use a hop screen to minimize trub.

At end of boil, take off heat and stir in the rest DME and the dextrose (corn sugar).

Bring the work back up to a boil for only a minute or 2. Make sure to stir vigorously. As long as you get it to 185+ degrees, you should be good.

Take of heat and let it cool to 170 degrees, then add 1 oz of Galaxy. Stir the wort to ensure proper flavor extraction. 10 minutes.

Crash the wort down to pitching temperature and transfer to fermenter. Add in the remaining 1 gallons distilled water until you are at 5.5 gallons.


Aerate with O2 stone for 1 minute, pitch yeast according to yeast directions, and then seal fermenter. I pitch yeast directly into wort at 80-90 degrees and let it do its job.

Keep this beer in a primary fermenter that has a spigot. you will want a fermenter with spigot to minimize O2 exposure when transferring to bottling bucket.

after ~24 hours of fermentation and you have a good krausen going, add the 1oz galaxy and amirillo.

When the beer is done fermenting (~7 days), add the 3 oz of Citra for the dry hop.

let it sit for another 7-10 days to ensure good dry hop and that the yeast have time to clean up unfavorable flavors. FG should be ~1.015, but no higher than 1.020. if FG is still too high, add a tsp of amalyse and let it sit till FG is achieved,.

Use spigot to transfer to keg or bottling bucket.