Mini Mash Miracle
 

I did my first mini mash a month or two ago, and the process was an absolute disaster. Typically I brew on a propane burner outside, but I did the mashing in my stainless steel pot inside on an electric stove.

It's a long, long, embarrassing, story, but basically I boiled my grains during my mash. (accidentally). Then when doing the sparge, I spilled crap everywhere and basically said, fine, forget the sparge.

At this point was In a horrible mood, did half my boil time, forgot to add 1 of my hop addditions. During the water top off period, put way too much water in. It was a horrible day. For some reason I kept making stupid mistakes one after another.

I decided to keg this beer, because I figured it would be horrible and didn't want to waste time bottling a beer I would have to pour out.

Last night had my first pint, and it was a very smooth, delicious, irish stout beer. I was instantly addicted to it. ZERO tannins. Just a great beer.

How could this have happened?

The brew gods didn't want you getting discouraged.

You've discovered the joy of small beers.

you made beer, thats how!!! even though we're scientists in our art, you could just about throw anything at a batch, and still have beer.