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% |