what I did for beer today...
Doughed in around 10am, planned a 90min mash, maxed out my mash tun so I had to steep some grain separately. As I am about to collect the first runnings I find I have to deal with a stuck sparge while I've got other stuff going on, so that took a long time. Second runnings also gave me a stuck sparge. Third runnings actually went ok. 90 minute boil in the dark because stuck sparges, and throw in below freezing temps, with a very full kettle. I simultaneously had my phone and flashlight fail while I realized my sprayer full of water was frozen, while I was at risk of a boil-over.
Feel asleep waiting for the wort to chill, even though it had been outside in the snow for an hour and a half it was still hotter than heck so I stuck it in the sink with cold water. I finally wake up at 2:30am, transfer, pitch yeast, start aerating (second time I've used the aeration system, I think it was originally designed to be for an aquarium) only to find that I had filled up the carboy to the point that aerating like that would cause it to foam over (despite adding some fermcap-S), so I spend a few minutes just plugging it in and unplugging it, trying not to make a mess. I make a half-donkey'd effort to clean up, and now it is about 4:30am.
This BDSA better be freakin' awesome. Wyeast 3822PC, OG 1.105, 3gallons. I believe it was based on Jamil's recipe in BCS, but on the high end for IBUs because I'm aging this thing as best I can.