NRPS Blackberry Sage Porter

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"Greenwood Aged Beer"
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Location
Seattle, WA
Recipe Type
Extract
Yeast
Wyeast 1056
Yeast Starter
Yes
Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter
1 pint starter
Batch Size (Gallons)
5
Original Gravity
1.060
Final Gravity
1.014
Boiling Time (Minutes)
60
IBU
41
Color
27.6 SRM
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
7 @ 72
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
14 @ 72
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NRPS Blackberry Sage Porter

Bring 3.5 gallons of water to a boil, turn off heat and add in a steeping bag, 2.8 oz. "Republic of Tea" brand Blackberry Sage Tea and steep for 5 minutes. remove bag and use this as your brew water.

Steep specialty grains in 2 qts 150° water for 60 min. sparge with 165° water.

5 lbs Light DME
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.25 lb Vienna Malt
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2 oz Fuggle (Pellet - 4% AA) 60 min.
.75 oz E.K. Goldings (Whole - 5.3% AA) 1 min.
.25 oz Northern Brewer (Pellet - 9.9% AA) 0 min.

Wyeast 1056

This beer is amazingly good. Not overpowering fruit flavor but the Blackberry definitely comes through nicely.
 
Perhaps a dumb question - but why would you sparge with an extract brew? I am trying to fighre out AG and my understanding is that sparging is part of the process where the sweet wort is produced. Since this is unnecessary with extract - why the sparge? In fact, what is meant by sparging in this case? (Brewwiki only has definitions for batch and fly sparging - so if I'm missing something basic I tried the search feature :)
 
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