Update on the brew.
I had a few scary moments today, but I think in the end it all worked out.
First, I decided to do a BIAB method rather than try and rig up some kind of mash tun for a 1 gallon batch. So because of this, I adjusted my mash water down from 1.5 gal. to 1 gal. since I wouldn't have any mashtun loss. No problem there, seemed like a perfect amount.
I came in a little hot on the mash, strike temp was @161*, so I had to stir it down to @152*...it seemed to hold the temp in my boil kettle pretty well but towards the last 20 mins of the mash I was skeptical so I stirred it gently and it looked like my thermometer dropped by about 10*, so i lit the burner and put it on the lowest setting I could to try and bring the tempt back to where it needed to be. It was nerve racking but I think it worked out.
Also, I guess I was so excited to finally have a brew day that without thinking about it, I added my first addition of hops to the mash!
The next issue I ran into was that my smaller brew pot doesn't have graduation marks on it, so I had no idea how much wort was in there after the mash and I had to guesstimate on how much water to sparge with. I eyeballed it and took a sample for pre-boil gravity...YIKES it was @ 1.010! :smack:
So I decided to turn the heat up and give it a vigorous boil and try and evaporate off some of the water.
Since I added my first addition to the mash like a moron, I decided to adjust my hop schedule to 1/4 oz @ boil and 1/8 oz @ 10 minutes left in the boil as opposed to at 5 mins. Not sure how much of a difference this will make, but as I had it calculated, I would have been on the higher end of the IBU range for this style so, I think it will be fine.
All said and done, I took a FG reading and it was right at 1.060 so I am pretty happy, I even had exactly 1 gallon go into the fermenter bucket. :rockin:
Now it is just a matter of time.