Wild Fields Pine Mountain Monolith Brown Ale

Mill the grains and mash at 154°F (68°C) for 45 minutes. Recirculate until your runnings are clear, then run off into the kettle. Sparge and top up as necessary to get about 6 gallons (23 liters) of wort—or more, depending on your evaporation rate.

Boil for 90 minutes, adding hops according to the schedule. After the boil, do a whirlpool step: Stir or recirculate to create a vortex; add whirlpool hops when the wort temperature has dropped to about 195°F (91°C) and steep for 20 minutes.

Chill the wort to about 66°F (19°C), aerate, and pitch the yeast. Ferment at 68°F (20°C). When fermentation is complete, crash, package, and carbonate to about 2.6 volumes of CO2.

BREWER’S NOTES
Water: If you use Bru’n Water, use the Brown Full water profile. At Wild Fields, we use a blend of carbon-filtered city water (high in bicarbonate) and reverse-osmosis (RO) water. We add a small amount of gypsum and calcium chloride to the mash.

Mash: We target a thickness of 1.2 quarts/pound (2.5 liters/kilo). pH: Our target mash pH for this beer is 5.4, with a target knockout pH of 5.3.

Clarity: We use kettle finings toward the end of the boil and Biofine before packaging.