I started yesterday's brew day off as any other. Arranging equipment,
soaking stuff. But this time I got a brand new tun to use.
Before hand I'm trying to figure out how much different the strike
water needs to be to account for more volume. Most every calc I find
just goes by weight of the tun. And the new bigger tun is lighter than
the old smaller one, so I left it the same. Will adjust out later
after I see what it's gonna do.

So we are gonna brew up a blonde. Basically Centennial Blonde with 05
yeast instead of Notty.

Hit temps right on the money. But then everything starts falling apart
pretty quick. Hence the out of the ordinary notes here. In fact there
were no notes taken.

While mashing I decided to mess with the old shower faucet down
stairs. Changing it up to a brewing sink. But, I of course bust a
something and we have water flying everywhere.

Looks like an old joint came off or the solder cracked. Easy enough I
think. But it's not. So I'm fixing and mashing.
Then we come to sparge. Between the stuck sparge, the crushed braid
and the floating to the top braid, I was ready throw the whole works
out the door.
Finally got it sparged, but did not risk vourlof as much as I should.
Just wanted to get it out of there.

I have had my issues with braid before and this seals it. I and making
a hard tubed manifold. And I don't know if it was because of the
floating braid, but I left alot of liquid behind

Boil was pretty routine. I decided to FWH it with the 60 min hops.
Looks pretty good. Lots of break churning around.

I cooled it down to 75 and then a lid on it. Gonna let this settle out
before I move it to primary. Quick run to Fleet Farm for some copper
fittings to fix down stairs.

Took just 45 min to run. Got some great settling in the kettle.
Probably about an inch of gunk. This might help clear it as I forgot
to Irish Moss it again. (can't wait for my kettle valve)

But it's beer. Stuff goes wrong once in a while. But taking steps to
correct. Hopefully this follows the pattern. Usually when Issues
arise I get my best beers out of it.

We will see pretty quickly with this one.
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