Grains @ 66°F. Mash Tun warmed with hot water prior to mashing.
Removed yeast vial from refrigerator 5 hours before pitching.
Mix crushed grains in mash tun with 4 gallons water at 153°F (Strike water 170°F). Mash for 60 minutes.
Re-circulate (vorlauf) until wort is fairly clear (appx. 20 minutes); begin to drain wort into brew kettle.
Fly sparge w/h 5 gallons of strike water at 170°F (153°to 156°F in mash tun) until brew kettle holds 6.75 gallons of wort, about 40 min.
Bring wort in kettle to boil.
Add gypsum; add whole leaf bittering hops in hops bag @ 60 min. before end of boil.
Add whole leaf flavoring hops in hop bag 15 minutes before end of boil.
Add Irish moss at 15 minutes before end of the boil.
Place chiller coils into the wort at 15 minutes before end of boil.
Add finishing hops at 5 minutes before end of boil.
Cool wort to 72°F, record OG, transfer wort with dry hops (in 2 hops bags with marbles) to 6-Ga. carboy and pitch yeast.
Rack to secondary 5-GA carboy @ 7 days.
Bottle day 21. 4.55 gallons total bottled after racking off traub and hop bags.