re: Homebrewing: In-Process Thread

Wife wanted a blonde ale so I started this last night (scaled down to 1.25 gallons). Used Crystal 10 instead of 15 b/c that's all the store had. Total wort boil time was 90 min which I don't fully understand. Why not just add less sparging water and boil 60min adding the hops at the start of the boil?

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(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)
OG = 1.049 (12.2 °P)
FG = 1.011 (2.8 °P)
IBU = 20 SRM = 5 ABV = 5.0%

Ingredients

10 lb. (4.53 kg) Great Western North American 2-row malt (2 °L)
0.50 lb. (227 g) Great Western crystal malt (15 °L)
4.1 AAU Willamette hops (60 min) (0.82 oz./23 g of 5% alpha acids) or
substitute with Willamette, Glacier, U.S. Fuggle, U.S. Tettnang or
Styrian Golding hops
Wyeast 1056 (American Ale), White Labs WLP001 (California Ale) or
Fermentis Safale US-05 yeast

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