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It's all over, beat my OG, and with help from Jeff got the pump working close to where it should. 1.072 so it'll likely finish just under 7%. All that's left is to eat the ribs and sausage and the beer bread AND beer grain chocolate brownies. OMG they are KILLER.

It's all over, beat my OG, and with help from Jeff got the pump working close to where it should. 1.072 so it'll likely finish just under 6. All that's left is to eat the ribs and sausage and the beer bread AND beer grain chocolate brownies. OMG they are KILLER.

Got a fiver of Crown Top Pale Ale brewed today. Slightly lower OG than projected, but I've been getting good attenuation, and I'm really not worried. I'm not happy that I couldn't make a yeast starter for this batch, but I'm not worried about that, either. It'll be beer, and I had a good time brewing it.

Hey BL isn't it nice not trying to lift and pour all that hot liquid? First run on mine today too. My recipe went from 5.5g to 7.75g by the time I left to computer I have 10.5 gallon batch going.

I never did much lifting but it was great whirlpooling. I'm hooked!

Beer-lord wrote:I never did much lifting but it was great whirlpooling. I'm hooked!

I did doing mashtun batches with strike and sparge water. Just went from 10.5 gals. boiling to 67 in 23 minutes with the pump and Jaded Cyclone chiller, gonna give it a few more minutes whirl pooling and transfer to the fermenters!

Life is good!

Used hops today without containing them in some way, nice trub cone in the middle of the pot as it should be. I'm happy my brewday went from 7-8 hours, I'm completely cleaned up and pitched in 6 hours.

That's a long brew day! I started at 10:45, took my sweet time but had help and still was eating very well less than 4 1/2 hours later. I'm tired but feel it was a good, successful day.
Not even 5 hours later and I have 1/2" of krausen already. Pitched a bit starter to get it going fast and that pump really helped aerate. It'll be blowing like crazy in the morning. It's at 63 overnite and I'll raise it to 68 in 2-3 days.
First use of my Big Mouth.

Beer-lord wrote: First use of my Big Mouth.

I disagree.

I approve of the above post.

Kealia wrote:

Beer-lord wrote: First use of my Big Mouth.

I disagree.

Ding, ding, ding. You win. I laughed hard and loud and was glad I had no beer in my mouth when I read this.

Ink, I know your secrets so be careful.

Beer-lord wrote:Ink, I know your secrets so be careful.

So does everyone else. That why I live freely.

I have about 2 1/2 hours in doing mash and sparge, from getting all set up until the wort is in the boil kettle, now I have the 13 gallon pot drilled for strike and sparge. was doing two equal batch sparges and was heating the water in seperate batches, now heat it all at once and mark my spoon as measuring stick and dump half, so this part of the day shortened some too. Actually did not pump mine into the fermenters, disconnected the whirlpool hose and it gravity fed. As I get more comfortable and get everything figured out with pump and cooling process I'm hoping to get it into the 5 hour range.

Just finished bottling/kegging a batch of my Cincy Common