Water:
Pre-boil volume: 4.5 gallons
Sparge volume: 2.5 gallons
Mash:
- Heat 4.5 gallons water to 150 F, cook grains for 45 mins.
- Increase temp to 170 F let sit for 15 mins.
- lift basket to drain, submerge, and let wort setting. repeat once.
- sparge with the separately prepared 173 F 2.5 gallons of water for 30 minutes.
Boil: (uncovered - total boil 75 mins.)
- Raise wort temp to 212 F.
- Once boiling at 1 oz hops for 45 mins.
- add 1 oz hops for 30 mins.
- Do not allow a boil over!!!
Whirlpool:
- reduce temp to 180 F for 30 mins in a whirlpool (to aerate, no hops being added).
- Crash temp to 64 F before added to fermentor.
Fermenting:
- Ferment at 64 F for 6-7 days.
- Increase temp to 69 F add 3 oz hops for 5-7 days.
- Decrease temp to 36 F for 2 days.
Kegging:
- Transfer to keg, set psi to 20, then quick purge to release oxygen and let come back up to pressure. Let sit for 2 days
- Turn of gas, purge, set psi to 9-11 and check carbonation, if good let mature 5-7 more days.