American Pale Ale (Avant Garde)

[Remember hops poisonous to dogs. Keep pets out of kitchen]

Clean Robobrew the night before. Fill with water to save time in morning.

Fill with 24 liters and start heating to 152 F using both burners

[leave the malt pipe out at this time]

Check actual temp with thermometer--might have to raise a bit

[gently add in malt pipe allowing water to soak through]

Slowly add in grain and stir in

Put on lid and let sit for 60 minutes - ONLY USE 500 W burner

Recirculate pump throughout this process.

Bump up heat to 158 F for 15 minutes

Heat 8 liters of tap water on stove as sparge.

Lift grain out of liquid, slowly poor in sparge water, let grains drain

Bring to vigorous boil (220-225 F) - NO LID FOR BOIL

Let boil for 5 minutes before adding hops

After hot break, add in the sugar

Watch carefully for boil overs / keep spray bottle handy

Clean and sanitize fermenter, lid, airlock, siphon, hydrometer

[While brewing, fill old bottles with sanitizer and put cap on them so they are ready for bottle day in a few weeks]

15 ML STAR SAN W/ 5 Litres Water

Recirculate for 5 minutes during boiling to sanitize recirculation arm / or just put in sanitize solution

Add in hops at intervals as directed by recipe.

Everything that touches after this needs to be sanitized.

Put stopper into fermentor lid and use as handle so not touching the inside.

15 minutes before boil ends add in immersion chiller [this sanitizers the chiller]

Cool wort to 70 F

Transfer to sanitized fermenter and pitch yeast

Oxygen is good at this stage / shake or stir to allow oxygen

Collect some and take original gravity reading.

Get final log reading of quantity from fermentor. 1 L remains in robobrew once the pump can't pump any more. This can be updated on bottle day if needed.

Fill air lock with starsan solution if possible

Ferment for 2 weeks at 20C

Then bottle or keg

[For clean up -- leave the chiller in the robo brew. Fill with lots of water and cleaner and just let soak. Pump water into sink. Goal is to try to avoid spilling wort all over kitchen]