So my day was eventful.
I don't have anything to heat sparge water so I used the brewzilla and pumped it into cool box to keep warm. I had no idea how long it would take to heat to sparge type temp, I had set timers to get it on the go at 10am but by time that heated and then I heated strike water I was an hour behind what I thought. Will set the timer earlier next time.
Mash was fine apart from the temp didn't drop as expected when adding grain so overall mash temp slightly high.
Sparge was no problem, no rice husks and used fine screen. Added about 12 litres.
Boil was the worst, I didn't use the robobrew right. I got the hot break/boil over before 100 degrees, didn't expect it so low. I then assumed because it looked like it was boiling that it was boiling so added first hops. Turns out it was at 99 for ages so robobrew didn't start it's timer for about 20 minutes, I was wondering why I wasn't losing volume.
Anyway I stuck with the robobrew timer and then fudged up hop addition. Added with 10 to go instead of 6. Final hops as expected and then volume can out a half litre short. OG 1.058 expected was 1.052.
Cooling raced down from 100 to 33 in minutes but stalled from there. Eventually got to 17 so pumped it to FV and got FV into fermenting fridge. Now waiting for it to get to 15 or below to pitch yeast.
Lessons learnt and a lot of mess and puddles in kitchen. Will be smoother next time.
