Friday on my way home from work I decided to run over to my local home brew supply store, Beer and Wine Hobby in Danvers. Picked up what I need and went food shopping after that. This allowed me to start my early morning brew day on a Saturday vs a Sunday.

Like most of my brewdays, I collected my RO water the night before and setup the Anvil Foundry to start at 5:45 am and then by 6:45 am I was at 145 degrees F. Takes little over an hour to heat up 7 gallons of water from a nice 50 degrees F to 150 degrees F. Once I hit my 150 I added in the grains and started my mash.

During the mash, I decided to keg up the Altbier from a few weeks ago. It was all cold crashed and ready for kegging. I also needed my fermentation chamber so need to keg it up. Plus gave me something additional to do while I mashed in.

Mid way through the mash, I did a little stir and it smells and looks amazing and with about 10 minutes left in the mash I turned the power up to 100% and the temp up to 168 to mash out. I typically do this so that after the mash is complete ill be at the 168 for about 10 minutes before I pull the grain bag.

Cranked up the Anvil to 212, 100% and let the grains drain. After a few I pulled the basket and put it at an angle. It seems to help run the rest of it off nicely when I do that. Give it a squeeze at the end, yes I squeeze it never had an issue, pulled the grain and of course did my cleaning of the basket. Also pulled my hops out and got them weighed out. Hit my pre boil gravity as well with a little more wort then expected. Looked at my last batch I had 6.4 gallons at 1.041 so not far off. Maybe Ill give it a sec before starting the boiler timer when it boils, Nahh Ill just run with it. 8)

Around 200F I pulled the hot break my typical 2 cups. Hit the boil and started in on the hops adds per the recipe. Added in the chiller, yeast nutrient, and Irish moss. Chilled down to about 68 and transferred into fermentor. Added in the 2 packs of yeast and put into the ferm chamber and set to 56 degrees. Took a reading and was at 1.045, which is typically what I have been hitting so right on.

Cleaned up the equipment and this time decided to soak everything in PBW for an hour.