Brewing Steps for Dark Ale Clone

Recipe by MichiganBrewSupply Czech Dark Lager Extract 5.50 Gallon Batch 3.00 Gallon Boil 60 Minute Boil Created 1/29/2021 Updated 1/29/2021

	Gather all needed ingredients and read through the brew steps.
	Collect 3.00 gallons of water in your brew kettle and begin heating.
	Steeping Grains
	Pour the following ingredients into a mesh bag: 0.50 lb Caramel Rye 0.50 lb Dark Munich 0.13 lb Midnight Wheat
	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: 6.60 lb - Pilsen Liquid Malt Extract 2.00 lb - Dark Dry Malt Extract
	Return to a boil
	Hops and Kettle Additions
	As soon as you reach a boil, set timer for 60 minutes After 30 minute(s), add 1.00 oz Cascade and boil for 30 Minute(s). After 45 minute(s), add 1.00 oz Saaz and boil for 15 Minute(s).
	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 5.50 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 1.054.
	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.

Dark Ale Clone

Steeping Grains

Fermentables

Hops and Kettle Additions

Cooling

Yeast

Fermentation