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Good, definitely a light, drinkable beer. I was trying to make it a little grainier and a tad sweeter, might want to tweak the recipe next time but also need to remember it was 4 months from brew day to glass and the fermentation didn't go quite as planned. Might want to mash around 155 or 156F instead of 154-151.

Notes

Starter: Forgot to make until 7pm the night before brew day. At start of brew, the yeast is just now getting a good krausen. Mash: Mashed in with 12 qts at 168F, leveled out at 154F in the MT. The BS mash temp was more accurate than BF but I went with BF since I hadn't opened BS yet. Temp was 151F after 65 mins at the start of mash out. Sparge: Infused with 1qt boiling water and let rest ~5 mins. Sparged with 180-190F water using french press to do a hybrid batch/fly sparge. Used ~4.5 gal sparge water over 35 mins to obtain ~6.5 gal in the BK. Might want to mash thinner in future due to HLT volume limit. Temp at end of sparge 148F. Boil: Got from sparge temp to boil in under 30 mins, good rolling boill the whole time. Added one whirlfloc tablet with 15 mins left. Chill: Chilled with dual stage immersion chiller. Reached 140F in 5 mins, chiled to 80F in about 20 mins. Pitch: Took gravity reading of 1.050 (adjusted) and pitched right from stir plate. Very trubby, should have used hop bag and maybe think about bazooka screen. Not sure if the trub interfered with OG measurement. Collected ~6 gallons of wort in fermenter. Ferm: Didn't see any bubbling after 72 hours so pitched a vial of California Ale. Kegged about 4 weeks later with good FG. Temps were low (55-60) for weeks 2-3 but then I brought it inside (~70F) for the last 5 days.