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Line the 7.5 gallon kettle with the mesh bag, fill with 2.5 gallons of tap water and bring to 164u00b0F. Remove from heat.
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Mash-in by slowly adding all 5.8 pounds of grain into the water and inside the bag. Stir for 2 minutes to prevent balls of grain from clumping together, creating a consistent mash. The temperature should equalize to about 154u00b0F.
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Cover the mash, only uncovering to briefly stir every 20 minutes. Heat 3 more gallons of water to 185u00b0F.
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After 60 minutes, mash-out by carefully pouring the 185u00b0F water into the mash, stirring to equalize temperature to about 170u00b0F.
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Slowly raise the grain bag out of the liquid, allowing the wort to drain from the grain. Hold the grain bag above the kettle for about 5 minutes as the wort drains. Top the wort off with water to 6 gallons.
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Bring wort to a vigorous boil. When the boil begins, add 0.5 ounce Northern Brewer hops in a mesh bag.
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After total of 60 minutes of boil, remove from heat.
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After wort cools below 180u00b0F everything that touches it should be sanitary, and exposure to open air should be limited as much as possible.
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Cool wort by placing pot in ice bath or by using a wort chiller until it is below 70u00b0F. Transfer to sanitized fermentor (either a carboy or a fermentation bucket).
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Use a sanitized auto-siphon racking cane to remove enough wort to take a gravity reading with your hydrometer. Make a note of this number, since you will be using it to calculate the actual alcohol content when it's done fermenting. The reading should be around 1.032.
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Carefully pour yeast into cooled wort (it should be below 70u00b0F), and agitate vigorously. Cover fermentor with a sanitized stopper and airlock. Ferment in dark place, keeping ambient temperature consistent, preferably between 65 and 68u00b0F.
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Bottle after 1 to 2 weeks when fermentation is complete, using
