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Weize 'n' Rancor is a wheat beer in the German Weizen style with some extra hop Rancor kicking it up a notch. Steps to this recipe ---------------------- * Clean and Sanitize everything. * Start heating just under 4 Gal of water to 163.5 F for the mash. * Add PH stabilizer to the water. * While mash water is heating mill all the grains (don't mill the wheat flakes). * Add the mash water at 163.5 F to the mash tun (adding grains will reduce this to 150 F). * Add the grains including wheat flakes to the mash tun stiring to release air trapped in the grains. * Cap the mash tun and let the grains steep at 150 F for 75 min. * Start heating about 4 1/2 Gal of water to 168 F for sparging about 50 min after starting steep. * Add the sparge water at 168 F to the sparge bucket and secure hose for fly sparging. * Take first runnings from the mash testing sugar content to ensure completion * Fly sparge the mash adding the wort to the brew kettle at the same rate sparge water enters the mash tun * Stop collecting wort when you have just under 6 1/2 Gal or when runnings measure 1.010 specific gravity. * Start heating the wort to a boil. * Add bittering hops to the wort once it is at a rolling boil and start timing your 60 min boil time. * Add aroma hops to the wort 50 minutes into the boil (10 min remaining) * Add irish moss (clarifier) and yeast nutrient to the wort 50 minutes into the boil (10 min remaining) * When boil is finished remove from heat and crash cool the wort using a chiller * Once wort has reached approximately 80 F transfer to fermentation bucket * Take a specific gravity reading and record this as your original gravity * Pitch yeast and aerate. * Seal the fermenter with an airlock and wait for it to transform itself into the nectar of the gods.