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2017-09-15: Making starter per Starter tab. Starting with 1L water before 10 minutes of boil and hoping for around .75L. I started the 10 minute boil at 18:15 so its a late start. 2017-09-16: Brew Day: Shy on grain from what I thought I had. Low by 1# of Maris Otter. Adding DME to boil to make up part of deficit. Water level below BrewMometer in 10 G MT so I added a gallon of water to bring the water/grain ratio up to 1.35. Seems reasonable anyway. Rice hulls plugged the Flow Meter. Took it apart from the top to clear it. Lesson: Don’t put any hulls in on the bed - mix it all in with the grain. Bad day. I did not enter Top Link program correctly and it ended at the end of the Beta-glucan Rest. Result was not a big deal, only that we held on the rest for an extra 10 minutes or so until I made the needed edits and restarted the Profile. No Measured Post Mash Gravity as the DME was in the BK waiting for the wort to arrive. Too much wort gathered. I need to stop worrying about what’s in the RIMSRocket. It’s irrelevant. I will boil some of it away, csrewing up my numbers, but having the right OG and volume I suspect. 7.25G is low enough, here we go… OG = 1.043 on the refractometer and hydromeer shows 1.042@82.0°F or 1.045. Splitting the difference… 2017-09-17: Bubbling away but the room temp stayed high (70°F) from brewing and the wort reached up to 72°F, Too high. It’s cool out. I think I will run the fan for a spell. 2017-09-18: While room temps this morning were still around 70°F hey have now dropped back to the desired 68°F and the fermentors have also dropped some. 2017-09-19: Room temps are back down to 66°F and the wort temp is dropping as well. Krausen fell back in overnight and bubbling has slowed. 2017-10-05: FG is 1.012@66.2°F or 1.013. It’s ready for the keg. Racked tp Keg 3 and pressurized warm to 30 psi with CO2.