Amnesty Ale
Amnesty Ale |
Target Gravity 1.060 |
Grain Bill - Total 10 lbs |
4 lbs Rahr 2-row Pale Malt |
4 lbs Kenyan Pale Malt |
1 lb Aromatic Malt |
0.5 lb Carapils Malt |
0.5 lb Crystal 15 malt |
Hops |
Summit hops 16.7 aa |
Columbus hops 13.5 aa |
Glacier hops 6.7 aa |
Cascade hops 6.4 aa |
MASH |
Aquamist water for mash 1 liter per lb (10 Liters) |
Adjust pH with 7 gm gypsum |
Heat 10 liters water to 170 F |
Add water to crushed grains and mix thouroughly |
Monitor temperature adjusting as needed to maintain 152F |
Mash for 60 minutes |
Raise temperature to 170 F at completion of mash; hold for 10 minutes |
SPARGE |
Adjust pH of sparge water to 5.6 |
Preheat 20 liters Aquamist water to 170 F |
Transfer enough water to cover the false bottom of the lautering tun |
Transfer mash to lautering tun |
Slowly open spigot and remove 1 liter of runoff - return to lautering tun; repeat until clear |
Connect spray arm and begin adding sparge water - keep water level above grain bed |
Sparge slowly for 45 minutes collecting runoff in the brew kettle |
BOIL |
When sparging is complete, heat wort to boil and hold for 60 minutes |
At boil add 0.5 oz Summit hops pellets |
After 30 minutes add .5 oz Columbus hops |
After 45 minutes add 0.5 oz Glacier Hops |
After 45 minutes add 1 tsp irish moss |
After 50 minutes add 0,5 oz Cascade Hops |
After 55 mminutes add 0.5 oz Cascade hops |
When boil is complete stir vigorously for 3 minutes creating a whirlpool and cover |
Move the brew kettle to the big aluminum pan and bring wort temperature down to 78 F |
Fill big aluminum pan and cool with water |
After water becomes warm siphon off and refill pan with water and ice |
Siphon cool wort into primary fermenter |
Add 750 ml Wyeast Northwest Ale Yeast started by adding smack pack to 500 ml sterile wort |
Wort consists of 1/2 cupl wheat dry malt extract in 500 ml H2O |
Shake to aerate well |
Gravity after Sparge = 1.040 (25 qts) |
Initial gravity = 1.055 |
Final Gravity = 1.011 |
Bottled 14 June 08 |
ABV = 6.3% |