Sexy Blonde Beer Kit

 Your Label Peelers Sexy Blonde Original Beer Kit never sits on a shelf. Your grains are crushed to order. Your ingredients are packed fresh and you don't pay for a flashy box. It's all about providing you with the freshest ingredients for you to make your best beer.

Your Label Peelers Original Sexy Blonde Beer Kit has a light and crisp flavor profile with hints of honey, toasted malt, and a subtle citrus aroma. The body is light and effervescent, with a smooth finish and a slight hop bitterness. It has a refreshing taste that will leave you wanting more. The light maltiness and sweetness will make this a perfect choice for a summer afternoon.

ABV: 8.5% - 8.8%
OG: 1.087
FG: 1.020
IBUs: 78
SRM: 8

INGREDIENTS

Extracts:
9 lbs Light DME

Specialty Grains: ***Combined into one bag***
1 lb Pale Malt
1 lb Gambrinus Honey Malt

Hops: ***Substitutions based on availability***
1 oz Warrior Hop Pellets (Add at the start of your boil, then boil for 60 Min)
1 oz Simcoe Hop Pellets (add to your boil after 45 minutes)
1 oz Simcoe Hop Pellets (add to your boil after 55 minutes)

Yeast: ***Substitutions based on availability***
White Labs California Ale WLPD001

Spice Pack: (added to boil for the last 20 mins)
1 oz Dry Lemon Peel

Also Included:
5 oz Priming Sugar
2x Muslin Bags

DIRECTIONS

Add 2 gallons of water into your brew kettle and heat to 150-160 degrees F. Pour your specialty grains into the muslin bag and add into your water. Keep water at this temp for 20-30 minutes, steeping the bag every few minutes. Remove grain bag and sparge with warm water to get the most from your grains.

Bring water to near boil. Remove boiling pot from heat and add the malt extracts. Once all of your malt extract is dissolved, return to heat. When the wort starts to boil again, add bittering hops to large bag and FOLLOW HOP SCHEDULE ABOVE adding hops to the same large bag. Don't forget the spice pack added with 20 minutes remaining. 

After 45 minutes, add Irish moss (Optional Clarifier-Sold Separately) and boil for final 15 minutes.

Remove from heat and cool the wort to around 70 degrees with an immersion chiller or an ice bath. Transfer your cool wort to a sanitized primary fermenter and top up to 5 gallons with cool, clean water.

Pitch your yeast and ferment for 5-7 days at around 65-75 degrees. Once fermentation slows, transfer beer into secondary. Let sit for a minimum of 2-3 weeks at fermentation temperatures to assure fermentation is complete.

Carefully transfer into bottling bucket that has priming sugar dissolved in bottom (or carbonate in a soda keg if you prefer kegging). When the transfer is complete, bottle as normal. Let bottles sit for at least 2-4 weeks before drinking to ensure full carbonation. Enjoy!