1) Heat water to 164 degrees then remove from heat and stir in grain (in a 5 gallon painter mesh bag, use clips to keep bag up in kettle) temp will drop about 10 degrees after adding grain. Let sit for 60min stirring occasionally. Boil some extra water in another container while awaiting mash completion. After 60 min, mash complete.
2) Remove grain bag. Get as much out as possible :)
3) Boil. Upon start of boil add 1oz of your preferred hops in mini-mesh bag.
4) After 45min of boil, add 1oz your preferred hops in second bag. Boil is done at 60 minutes. Remove hops bags.
5) Cool Wort to 70 degrees. I did an ice bath, it's helpful to have a few bags of ice from the store handy for this. Once Wort is at 70 degrees pour into fermenter. Raise level to 5.5 gallons with preboiled good water (if it has dropped below that). Pitch preferred yeast. Seal top, shake fermentor to oxygenate yeast. Allow to ferment at 70 degrees. After 36 hours of very active fermenting, it ended up with a couple of inch yeast cake at the bottom so I transferred the wort into the secondary fermenter to get it off of the yeast cake and add flavor. Once it's in the secondary fermenter add 1 quart of raspberry concentrate. Secondary fermentation was slow and steady (1-3 gurgles per minute). Alot of the stuff I mentioned seasoned brewers already know, but some of these details were things I did not know.
This batch of beer turned out great! Good Luck with yours! :)