| Gather all needed ingredients and read through the brew steps. | |
| Collect 2.50 gallons of water in your brew kettle and begin heating. | |
| Steeping Grains | |
| Pour the following ingredients into a mesh bag: 
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| Steep grain for 20 minutes or until water reaches 170 F | |
| Remove mesh bag and discard | |
| Bring water to a boil | |
| Fermentables | |
| To avoid scorching, remove kettle from heat source | |
| Add the following fermantables to the kettle: 
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| Return to a boil | |
| Hops and Kettle Additions | |
| As soon as you reach a boil, set timer for 60 minutes 
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| Cooling | |
| When the 60 minute boil is complete, cool the wort to 68 F as rapidly as possible. Use a wort chiller or place the kettle in an ice bath. | |
| While the wort cools, sanitize the fermenting equipment - fermentor, lid or stopper, air lock, funnel, etc. along with the yeast pack and a pair of scissors. | |
| Pour in the cooled wort into your fermentor. Leave any thick sludge in the bottom of the kettle. | |
| Add more cold water as needed to bring the volume to 5.00 gallons. | |
| Using a hydrometer, take a gravity reading from a sample of your wort. This should be close to the estimated O.G. (original gravity) of 1.055. | |
| Seal the fermentor and aerate the wort. Rock fermentor back and forth for a few minutes or use an aeration stone. | |
| Yeast | |
| Add yeast once the temperature of the wort is 78 F or lower. Use the sanitized scissors to cut off a corner of the yeast pack, and carefully pour the yeast into the primary fermentor. | |
| Seal the fermentor with stopper or lid. Add water into the sanitized airlock and then insert the airlock into the rubber stopper or lid. | |
| Fermentation | |
| Allow beer to ferment at the recommended temp for the recommended number of days. | 
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