I brewed this on 01/15/2016. Started out in the kitchen and mashed in at 149F (BIAB in cooler mash tun). Added some boiling water every time I mixed to maintain temps and ended at 147F after an hour long mash. Quick batch sparge with 3 gal of 168F water and collected 7.5 - 8 gallons of wort. I put my boil kettle on the burner and went inside to get the lighter.. it started to rain (at 40F). I stood there with an umbrella for a vigorous hour long boil, got soaked but saved the beer. I was absolutely miserable and probably was way off on hop addition timing. I ended up collecting 6.5 gallons of wort into my fermenter at 1.048 (without honey). I was aiming for a higher boil off and slightly longer boil so I didn't get down to 6 gallons but otherwise it was exactly as expected.
It's been fermenting for 3 days at 70-72F ambient. I plan on adding honey directly to primary. No problems with that, correct?
Still deciding on whether to keg or bottle. Does anyone have opinions? I may do both but we'll see.
Pictures:
Kettle on electric stove for strike water
Mash start
Mash end
24 hours in carboy (don't mind the caption, it looks beautiful
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