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Thursday 9/21/17 1:30am. Rehydrated 2 packages US 05 in pre-boiled/cooled 200ml RO water in 2L flask. (ex 07 2018) after rehydration, added 1qt canned wort 12/2016 let sit overnight. 9:00am 9/21/17 shook flask and it de-gassed. Stepped up to 1/2 gal canned wort in 5L flask. water Watermill express RO Mash water 4.5 gal Gypsum 2.2g, CaCl2 0.9g lactic acid 2.6ml Heated strike water to 163F and mashed in. Mixed with power. temp 143. Ran off and did a RIMS to bring up to 148F and then mashed for 75minutes. At the end, reciculated with pump to vourlauf. ran first runnings into kettle. ~2.5gal @ 1.080. Heated 9 gal sparge water gypsum 4.3g, cacl2 1.7 lactate 0.6ml. ( i think i forgot to add this) batch sparged in 2 steps due to volume. 5gallons and 4 gallons. collected 11.25 gal wort @ 1.036 preboil boiled and added as per recipe. Recirculated hot wort with 5 minutes remaining to sanitize chiller. recirculated with hose water until ~100F then ran ice water in straight pass to Ale pale 2x 4gal trips to the Bru Gear conical. 8 gal batch @ 1.046 OG (perfect) at 62F and pitched the large starter at 3:30pm, Set at 67 to ferment Tuesday 926-17 SG 1.008 (5 days!). Set at 70F to finish. Thursday 9-28-17 set at 50 to cold crash. Set at 50 since the conical does not have a jacket to insulate. Saturday 9-30-17 Transfered with blichman quickcarb to kegs 13 and 14. Filled 1 keg and 1/2 of 14. Set full keg in chest to cool overnight; took 10 oz of unsweatened coconut flakes (2 x 5oz packages) and toasted for ~5 minutes at 315-325 in outdoor oven. Got light toasty brown. did in 2 cookie sheets. Then added to sanitized large keg dry hopper and placed in half keg. Fitted with cool jacket and thermowell in beverage dip tube. layed keg on side to cover dip tube and provide surface area to the coconut. Set FTSS controller at 68F. Will “dry nut” for about a week. Thursday 10/5/17. Tasted coconut blonde. Good coconut flavor and aroma. Pulled coconut (day 5). Set in keezer to chill. Will add gelatin and quick carb likely tomorrow. 10/27/17 This beer came out very well. The coconut blonde was amazing. Crowd favorite. It went very fast. Not exactly sure how I drank so fast but i have been drinking this more than anything and filled 6 pack for comps. This will have to be a definite re-brew. I’ll do a full 5 gallon of coconut blonde. The medusa blonde is very good too. If I let the glass sit out and warm to ambiet temp I can almost detect some faint diacetyl. Its not really evident cold. This may be a flaw if detected in judging.