I have completed my first real all grain brew day. I'm counting the actual first day as a practice run. I used my larger beverage cooler and was able to collect more than enough wort. I started out with just under 7 gallons and after the boil, just about 5.5 gallons went into the primary right on top of the yeast cake. My mash tun seems to work fine, although I broke my thermometer today, but it holds the mash temp really well. I think this helps with my extraction rate because I got a 1.054 reading on the hydrometer which puts my efficiency at 77%. I will be ecstatic if I can continue that for the rest of my brewing days.
Everything was going well, my first hop addition was in, and so I went upstairs to clean up a little bit. I came back down and my flippin propane had run out. AAAAAHHHHH. I had to carry 7 gallons of liquid, boiling hot liquid mind you, upstairs and try to get a rolling boil on the stove top. I got it done, and everything else went as planned, but that would have really sucked had I fallen or spilled boiling water all over myself. The two commons are getting along nicely, bubbles are already happening in today's batch. Can't wait to drink em
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