Cleaned up from yesterday's brew day. Normally, I won't leave it until morning, but...Confirmation Saturday, I got up early to get the water going, grind the grain, and boil the brown rice for the pilsner adjunct. Was worried about making it to church on time at 1pm, so I mashed in a little under temp-even with the hot rice its only came up to 138F. Figured I'd do a decoction when I came back, always wanted to try that, but 4 hours later, the decoction only rose temp 10F and the 2nd decoction did nothing other than add some flavor, so I left it off as a bad job and started the boil. Moved the blackberry sauvignon blanc into a keg for carbonation and moved the merlot into the barrel so there'd be a free fermenter for the pilsner. Boil went according to plan, but the hop stopper got clogged during cooling (rice bits?) and one of the hose attachments leaked and wouldn't stop. Last 2 gallons from the boil kettle went into the fermenter commando and warmed it up to 90F, not normally a problem, except the yeast was already in there getting aerated from the splashing, so hooked it up to the cooling system and had dinner. After dinner, still at 90F, found out the lines for the glycol chiller are clogged, so did a quick swap off the cold crashing porter into the pilsner which is now doing fine at 50F. If you find Murphy, @seatazzz, I'll bring the shovel.
. He's cheap too, usually a 12 pack. It still looks nice. Great Mod.
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