Brooklyn Brew Shop - Summer Wheat Instructions

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h2. I. The Mash

* Heat 2 quarts (1.9 liters) of water to 160°F (71°C). 
* Add grain (This is called “mashing in.” Take note of jargon. Or don’t). 
* Mix gently with spoon or spatula until mash has consistency of oatmeal. Add water if too dry or hot. Temperature will drop to ~150°F (66°C). 
* Cook for 60 minutes at 144-152°F (63-68°C). Stir every 10 minutes, and use  your thermometer to take temperature readings from multiple locations.
* You likely don’t need to apply heat constantly. Get it up to temperature,  then turn the heat off. Monitor, stir, and adjust accordingly to keep in range. 
* After 60 minutes, heat to 170°F (77°C) while stirring constantly (“Mashing  Out”).


h2. II. The Sparge

* Heat additional 4 quarts (3.8 liters) of water to 170°F (77°C). 
* Set up your “lauter tun” (a strainer over a pot). 
* Carefully add the hot grain mash to the strainer, collecting the liquid that  passes through. 
* This liquid is called “wort” (pronounced “wert”). It will be your beer. 
* Slowly and evenly pour 170°F (77°C) water over the mash to extract the  grain’s sugars. 
* You want to collect 5 quarts (4.75 liters) of wort. You will lose about 20%  to evaporation later on, so you want to start with a bit more than you’ll end  with. 
* Re-circulate wort through grain once.


h2. III. The Boil 

* In a pot, heat wort until it boils. 
* Keep boiling until you’ve hit the “hot break” (Wort will foam - you may need to reduce heat slightly so it doesn’t boil over.) 
* Stir occasionally. All you want is a light boil – too hot and you lose  fermentable sugars and volume. 
* The boil will last 60 minutes. Start your timer and add in the rest of the  ingredients at these times:
** Add 1/2 Styrian Golding Hops at start of boil.
** Add 1/4 Styrian Golding Hops 30 minutes into boil.
** Add remaining Styrian Golding Hops 55 minutes into boil.
** At 60 minutes turn off heat. 
* Twenty percent of the wort will have evaporated in this step leaving you  with 1 gallon (3.8 liters) of wort. If your boil was a bit high, the surface area  of your pot extra large, or you brewed on a really hot day, you may have  less than the full amount. Don’t worry – you just reduced your beer a bit  too much, but you can add more water in the next step


h2. IV. Fermentation

* Place brew pot in an ice bath until it cools to 70°F (21°C).
* Once cooled, place strainer over funnel and pour your beer into the  glass fermenter. Yeast needs oxygen. The strainer helps aerate your wort  and clarify your beer (as well as catch any sediment from going into the  fermenter). Add tap water to bring wort up to 1 Gallon mark if level is low.
* “Pitch” yeast. (Toss the whole packet in.) 
* Shake aggressively. You’re basically waking up the yeast and getting more  air into the wort. 
* Attach sanitized screw-top stopper to bottle. Slide rubber tubing no more  than 1” (2.5 cm) into the stopper and place the other end in small bowl of  sanitizer. You’ve just made a “blow-off tube”. It allows CO2 to escape. 
* Let sit for two or three days or until vigorous bubbling subsides. This is  when fermentation is highest. You may notice bubbles and foam at the  top of the beer. After bubbling calms down, clean tubing and ready your  airlock.
* Sanitize, then re-assemble airlock, filling up to line with sanitizer. 
* Insert airlock into hole in stopper. 
* Keep in a dark place for two weeks without disturbing other than to show  off to friends. (If beer is still bubbling, leave sitting until it stops.) 
* In the meantime, drink beer with self-closing swing tops, or ask for empties  at a bar that has some. If you have a bottle capper and caps, you can save  two six packs of non-twistoff beers instead.


h2. V. Two Weeks Later: Bottling

* Thoroughly rinse bottles with water, removing any sediment. 
* Mix remaining sanitizer with water. 
* Fill each bottle with a little sanitizer and shake. Empty after two minutes,  rinse with cold water and dry upside down. 
* Dissolve 3 tablespoons honey with 1/2 cup water. Pour into a sanitized pot. You will be siphoning your beer into the same pot in the next steps.
** Carbonation comes from adding sugar when bottling, so if you filled  your jug with less than the full gallon in the last step, use less honey  when bottling. Using the full amount can result in your beer being  over-carbonated.
* Siphoning (It all happens pretty fast. You may want to practice on a pot of  water a few times.) To see it in action first, watch the How to Bottle video at  brooklynbrewshop.com/instructions.
** A. Attach open tubing clamp to tubing.
** B. Fill tubing with sanitizer. 
** C. Attach sanitized tubing to the short curved end of your sanitized  racking cane. Attach the black tip to the other end - it will help  prevent sediment from getting sucked up. It will probably be a snug  fit, but you can get it on there. 
** D. Pinch tubing clamp closed.
** E. Remove screw-cap stopper and place racking cane into jug, just 
above the sediment at the bottom (“trub”). 
** F. Lower end of tubing not connected to racking cane into sink.  Suction will force beer up and through the racking cane and tubing.  Open tubing clamp, let sanitizer flow into sink until beer just starts  to flow out of the tubing, then clamp shut. Open clamp on tubing,  allowing beer to flow into pot with sugar solution. Tilt jug when beer  level is getting low, but be careful in not sucking up the trub. 
* Siphon beer from pot into bottles, pinching tube clamp to stop flow after  each bottle. 
* Close bottles. 
* Store in a dark place for 2 weeks.


h2. VI. Two Weeks Later: Enjoying 

* Put beers in the fridge the night before you drink them. 
* Drink. Share with friends if you’re the sharing type.



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