Sludge

Problem with pump, wouldn’t pump both recirc and whirlpool same time. Was worried about dry fire so there wasn’t much recirc and top of mash was 4* cooler. Was 148-50 at top most of mash. Turned heat up to 158 and it brought top to about 152.

Mash out was awful. Let drain for a while, tried to squeeze, wrestled bag into a bucket, took half out, squeezed, dumped, put other half in, squeezed, off to boil. After all that, absorption was about .1 gal/lb, before squeezing was around .13 gal/lb

Pre boil gravity was low, boiled extra to bring it up, forgot about hops completely and scrambled to get these hops in for 30 minutes. OG in this recipe was measured. Efficiency tweaked to get recipe to match measured.

Fermented starting at 67, dropped to 1.044 in 2 days with phenolics, increased to 70, 1.042 at 4 days and phenolics persist, not unbearable but not desirable, increased to 75F.

Emptied entire kettle into fermenter instead of waiting for trub to settle like normal.

This yeast was left out over night accidentally in packaging. About 600billion cells after starter. Oxygenated wort with pure O2. Resulting pitch rate about 1.1.

2gal left in keg added 8 grams of medium toast amburana wood chips soaked in 1/2 cup of bulleit rye. Put in keg in a Muslim bag with a weight for 8 days then removed. Don’t change this ratio or duration at all, perfect. Toasted Madagascar vanilla notes

Round 2:
2 hour mash, ph was perfect at 5.2, iodine test is perfect, partigyle for a second beer