This has been a while since I have brewed this beer and was always liked by many. So I here we go, planning this one for clean up weekend at camp. I ended up have to go to my local home brew shop to pick up a few items for this brew. I ended up realizing when I got home the recipe called for pilsner and I only have standard 2-row so that is fine, Ill run with it. Here is the recipe.

Got the grains and water measured out the night before and added the salts to the water and setup the Anvil foundry to start up at 5:30am and run up to 156F(68.8C) a little higher then what is on the recipe, just making sure I don’t run this too dry and trying to keep ABV down a bit.

Got up the next morning and started in on my mash. At about 154F(68C) i add in the grains and let the Anvil bring it up to the 156F(68.8C) mark. After about 30 minutes into the mash I stopped the pump and gave the grain bed a good stir but not all the way down. Continued the mash until there was bout 10 minutes left and then cranked the Anvil up to 168F(75.5C). Pulled the grain basket and started to drain out that sweet wort. Cranked the Anvil up to 212F(100C) while draining off. Once draining stopped I pulled the grain basket and tilted to allow to drain more. Once fully drained I pulled the basket and cleaned while awaiting the boil to start. Pulled a wort sample at that time as well and came in at 1.042SG. The wort hit 200F(93C) and I pulled my typical two cups of hot break off the top.

Once the boil started I added in the 60 minute addition and proceeded onto the recipe. I did mess up on the additions at the end and ended up adding the sweet orange peels in at 10 vs the 5 minute mark. Don’t think that will affect anything. This brew was a few things off of the original recipe but oh well lets see how it turns out. Pull gravity sample of 1.047sg. I did chill down as quickly as I could and transferred over to my fermentor at about 68F(20C) while pumping in air through a HEPA filter and pitched the yeast. Cleaned up and getting ready for Easter Dinner.