Clusterfrick of a brew day today. Missed my mash temp by 5 degrees due to grains and equipment being in a cold room, and not taking that into account when heating my strike water. Then overshot it by 4 degrees. But whatever.

First runnings went fine. Added sparge water (batch sparge) then had a stuck sparge. Blew back to clear it up and it bubbled up fine. Still stuck. Repeated multiple times. Finally dumped the entire contents of my mash tun into the sparge water pot. False bottom had become disconnected from the spigot. Had to clean it all out, reconnect, then dump it all back into the mash tun. Finally got all my pre-boil wort. Things going fine now, but I was hoping for a laid back brew day.

Making a grisette, which is basically a table saison. Never replaced the hydrometer I broke last brew day, but I don't really care. It'll still be beer.

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Posted by Canuck Tiger

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Posted on 5/1/16 at 2:56 pm to BMoney

at least you didn't try to get a quick weeknight brew in and have those problems I guess...

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Posted by Zappas Stache

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Posted on 5/1/16 at 3:26 pm to BMoney

quote:
Clusterfrick of a brew day today.

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Posted by LSUBoo

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Posted on 5/2/16 at 8:41 am to BMoney

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Never replaced the hydrometer I broke last brew day, but I don't really care.

I went through a while where I broke one every other brew day, so I went ahead and ordered two a while back... and of course haven't broken one since.

Not much time for brewing the last few days, and going out of town this weekend, so maybe I'll get in a good brew day the next weekend.

I'm thinking it might be time for another batch of Rosemary IPA, but I want to check the Bayou Circuit upcoming competitions first.

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