[The Beerery]

I came in low yesterday in my ESB and added hot water to get it to my mash temp. I probably have around 50 all grain batches in the books. It's good for us neophytes to hear those with 10x more experience still adjust as needed.


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I would have done that, but there was no room in the cooler.  Ended up at 50% mash efficiency into the kettle..oh, well!

You're me eight days ago.  Eight days later I'm totally ok with it.

Only took me about an hour to be OK with it.  I mean, what else can ya do?

Dump it and start over! Thats my SOP. 

[denny]

Dump it and start over! Thats my SOP. 

That would be silly and wasteful.  Ferment it and brew another batch is my motto.

[skyler]

Did you adjust your bittering hops to balance it for the lower gravity? I mean, I assume dropping down to ~35 IBUs would give you a pretty nice session beer.

[weazletoe]

I'll pass on some words a wise old hippie brewer once shared with me that made my brewing go from stress filled to stress free.
 "It ain't ideal but it doesn't suck." Any guess who that hippie was? 

[denny]

I'll pass on some words a wise old hippie brewer once shared with me that made my brewing go from stress filled to stress free.
 "It ain't ideal but it doesn't suck." Any guess who that hippie was? 

Hmmmm....who could that be? 

[denny]

Did you adjust your bittering hops to balance it for the lower gravity? I mean, I assume dropping down to ~35 IBUs would give you a pretty nice session beer.

Nope.  That would require thought and I apparently wasn't doing that that day!

[narvin]

I'll pass on some words a wise old hippie brewer once shared with me that made my brewing go from stress filled to stress free.
 "It ain't ideal but it doesn't suck." Any guess who that hippie was? 

Wavy gravy?

[ynotbrusum]

I'm working on my process since going all electric BIAB.  Combined with lower boil off rate with simmering rather than raging boil, I have had a couple "light batches".  No problems - I found out I like Leichtbier!