Ever plan a brew for months and brew day sucked? Brewed this Octoberfest yesterday and it went all wrong. Couldnt get to my mash temp of 154. Heated the water to about 168, added my grain and it dropped a whole 8 deg. So it was 160 for about 10 minutes. It took another 20 minutes to get to around 154. So what will 30 minutes of the high temps do to the final product. I then ended up somehow with a 4 gal boil (planned 3) and I had my first boil over. I cant get it clean now. So I had to adjust my hops on the fly. It then took 4-ever to cool so I finally said screw it and pitched my S-04 at about 80. Its feremnting now at 70. The only good thing about the day was the great lakes brewery pale ale i pounded down.