Started this morning at about 9am with a robust porter and at 4:45, I am halfway through the boil on an APA.
The good:
I hit both gravities on the nose - back to 75% efficiency after my last batch sinking into the upper 50s. First one today was fly sparged and second was my first try at batch sparging.
The bad:
I was hoping to post some pictures, but my digital camera died two hours in.
The ugly:
I forgot to hook up the elbow on my sparge tank on batch #1 and it stopped with 2.5 gallons to go. I tried to put it on with water still in it and got a bunch of grease from my wrench into the water, so I dumped it and heated 2.5 more gallons.
My propane tank ran out during boil #1. Of course, my back up was empty.
Boiled over both batches bring them to a boil. For the first time ever, also boiled over 40 minutes in on batch #1 and probably lost some amount of hops.
The good:
I hit both gravities on the nose - back to 75% efficiency after my last batch sinking into the upper 50s. First one today was fly sparged and second was my first try at batch sparging.
The bad:
I was hoping to post some pictures, but my digital camera died two hours in.
The ugly:
I forgot to hook up the elbow on my sparge tank on batch #1 and it stopped with 2.5 gallons to go. I tried to put it on with water still in it and got a bunch of grease from my wrench into the water, so I dumped it and heated 2.5 more gallons.
My propane tank ran out during boil #1. Of course, my back up was empty.
Boiled over both batches bring them to a boil. For the first time ever, also boiled over 40 minutes in on batch #1 and probably lost some amount of hops.