Brewers Choice Queensland Ale Mini-Mash

Ingrediants:

• Morgans Queensland Bitter Kit 1.7kg
• 1.5kg Australian Pilsner Malt Grain
• 0.5kg Light Munich Malt Grain
• 0.2kg Wheat Malt Grain
• 0.05kg Medium Crystal Malt Grain
• 10g Cluster hop pellets (flavour)
• 10g Cluster hop pellets (aroma)
• 1 x Whirlfloc Tablet
• 1 x Safale US56 Yeast

How to do it:

1. The night before, refrigerate 5-10l of water in closed containers
2. Pre-heat the mash tun with 2.5l of boiling water for 5-10 minutes
3. Drain the mash tun, add the grain and mash in 6l of strike water to achieve a mash temperature of 66 degrees Celcius
4. Mash grain for 60 minutes
5. Add 2.5l of near boiling water to mash tun for mash-out. Mix well and leave for 10 minutes
6. Drain and recirculate 2l of sweet wort
7. Drain contents of the mash tun into the brew kettle.
8. Add 6l of sparge water at 75-80 degrees to the mash tun and mix well.
9. Drain and recirculate 2 l of sweet wort.
10. Drain the contents of the mash tun into the brew kettle
11. Bring the wort to boil
12. Once the wort has been boiling for a few minutes, add the flavour hops (10g of cluster hops) and the whirlfloc tablet and boil for 15 minutes.
13. Remove the heat and add the Morgans Beer Kit and the last 10g of Cluster hops (aroma). Stir the mixture very well.
14. Transfer the contents of the brew kettle to the fermentor and top up to 22 litres using cold water or ice.
15. Pitch the yeast once the temperature has dropped to 25 degrees or less.
16. Ferment at 16-18 degrees for the best result.