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7/8: popped open a bottle last night and this beer is amazing even though it's only been in bottle for ~2 weeks. Recipe is perfect and I wouldn't change a thing! Perfect balance of malt and esters/phenolics.

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5/21: made a 2L starter tonight in preparation for brew day on Saturday. This will give me a 0.57 pitch rate. Starter was very active and blew the foam stopper off the top if the flask. I hope I didn't lose too much yeast... 5/24 brew day. Efficiency was 75%! Starter was pitched into 66* wort at 11:00 AM. Put fermenter into room temp water bath which should keep temp from getting out of control. 9 hour lag time and fermentation started at 66*. 5/25: 12 hours into fermentation a thick krausen (basically pushing the top of the fermenter bucket so I cracked open the lid to prevent a mess -- more esters maybe?) has formed and temp is 67*, by 4:00 it raised another three degrees to 70*. Temp stayed here until I went to bed. 5/26: when I woke up temp dropped to 68*, but krausen has actually grown. Some krausen has come out of the fermenter where it was cracked open. Temp drop probably attributable to a cool night. Added 1.75# of sugar this evening as fermentation appears to have slowed down, but krausen hasn't dropped at all. Temp rose back up to 70* by mid-day and stayed there until I went to bed. 5/27: Airlock is only bubbling 1x every 3 seconds. It appears that the bulk of primary has ended. 5/29: well, I'm shocked. I moved fermenter upstairs which was a couple of degrees warmer than downstairs. I woke up this morning to the fermenter lid blown off and a mess on the carpet. Krausen dropped in the morning, but when I got home from work krausen has grown again. I put the brew belt on the fermenter to warm it up and hopefully finish off fermentation. Temp up to 82* when I went to bed. 5/31: it's my wedding day!! Wanted to take a hydro reading since we're a week into fermentation. Considering how active fermentation has been, I'm surprised to see a gravity reading of 1.016. Airlock is still active and krausen is still about 3" thick so I think the gravity will still drop quite a bit more. 6/1: krausen has finally dropped the day before I'm heading out on my honeymoon! 6/14: just got back from my honeymoon and the SG = 1.010. Sample was great -- crisp, phenolic and spicy with a nice malt profile. 6/21: bottling to 2.7 vol using 4.7 oz of table sugar. SG =