Brewing Day Game Plan
To Clean:
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Fermentation Bucket and lid
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Bucket Airlock
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Stirring spoon
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Hydrometer
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Turkey Baster
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Siphon tube
Brewing:
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Heat 4
gallons of water to 156F
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Put grains in long muslin bag, steep grains in
bag for 30 minutes
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Remove grain bag after 30 minutes, DO NOT
SQUEEZE BAG
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Warm up bottles of extract syrup in water, after
syrup is warm DRAIN WARM WATER
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Add COLD WATER to sink now, this will be your
cold bath later on (where the kettle will cool down)
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Bring water to a boil for 60 minutes,
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add extract syrup at this point
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Bring kettle to a boil, stirring every so often.
DO NOT LEAVE KETTLE COMPLETELY COVERED WITH LID, it could foam over.
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Add 1 ounce of hops (60 min) to hop bag once
the liquid is boiling, tie to kettle handle
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Start timer on your kitchen oven or phone, this
will be your countdown timer
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Stir constantly (but not crazy-like) and watch
for foam/boil over as you add in hops (they have proteins that might foam)
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Add one-half ounce of hops (@30 min)
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Adding further hop additions can be tricky with
the bag
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Add one-quarter ounce of hops (@15min)
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Add one-quarter ounce of hops (@5 min)
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Remove from heat, place kettle in sink of cold
water
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Add clean ice to the wort
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Keep track of temperature, once wort is in
75-80F transfer to carboy
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Add wort to fermentation carboy, bring up to 5
gallons volume if you are short
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As you are transferring to your carboy, take a
sample of your wort into graduated cylinder
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Then, AFTER YOU HAVE A SAMPLE, add yeast to
kettle and stir around to mix
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Aerate by rocking carboy back and forth for ~5
minutes
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Take Original Gravity with hydrometer; ALSO NOTE
THE TEMPERATURE YOU TOOK READING AT.
Notes
-Let yeast sit out in room temperature area, crack lid of jar (as CO2
will build up)
