Had a rather adventurous brew day today (well, I'm calling it today. I haven't gone to bed yet)
I was super excited to try out the new Edelmetall Bru Burner, which overall I'm pretty pleased with. Also had added a valve, dip tube, some camlock fittings and silicone tubing to my keggle.
It was a rainy day but I wasn't going to let that stop my plans! Got the mash started, did a 20 minute protein rest - was super fast getting the water to temp with the new burner. Stepped it up to the Sach rest (I use a cooler, so I just add more hot water to the cooler). First, overshot the infusion water temp. Added some cold water, well, too much cold water; heated that back up. Ended up undershooting target sach temp by 20 degrees. Added enough hot water to the tun to get the 150 that I wanted.
Came back to it at 30 minutes to give it a stir and check temps.... it was back down to 130!? Ran off a gallon to decoct and bring the temp back up, hit around 140. Gave up on temp management and decided I'll just iodine test to make sure there's no starch left.
After first runnings and sparge, I was a little over 2 gallons short on my pre-boil volume. Thinking I ground the grains too fine and got too much flour, it looked quite doughy. So guessing I just lost more water to that than normal.
Boil went okay, immersion chiller did it's job. Time to try out the new valve, dip tube and fittings!! For the most part, that went okay. I didn't use any sort of hop bags, so I got a lot of junk in the carboy. The wort is also waaaay darker than I expected it to be (5 pounds of red wheat and 4 pounds of 2 row, but looks like an amber ale). With a new burner comes a new learning curve. I think I'd be better off with a slightly slower heat-to-boil instead of putting the spurs to it.
But the yeasties are chugging away at it, has a slight krausen going already!