Well I had the grain and had the time. Since I’m doing these smaller batches its allowing me to have a little more time. Pull the water and added the salts along with milling the grains. Anvil setup to go to 148F(64.4C) and waited.

@11:19 the water was up 141F(60.5C) so I added the grains and let the water finish coming up to temperature. @11:23 we hit temperature and I started the mash. Before all that I did give the grain bed a really good stir to make sure everything is wet. About 30 minutes into it I stopped the pump and gave it another good stir and set the pump back up to finish out the mash. with about 4 minutes left on the mash I turned the Anvil up to 168F(75.5C) to mash out. Pulled the basket with about a few minutes left in the mash out and let the wort drip. Cleaned up everything and after giving the bag a good squeeze a few times I pulled that and cleaned that up as well while awaiting the wort to come up to a boil. Pulled a wort sample of 1.042SG and awaited the boil.

@13:00 boil started, what perfect timing. @ the 30 minute mark added in the first addition as this is another high Alpha acid hop. With like 20 minutes left in the boil I added in the wort chiller as I have some things to do at the end. At the end of the boil started to chill down and pulled a wort sample of 1.050SG. Forgot to add the hops and added when the wort was down to 170F(76.6C). Cooled down to 70F(21C) and pitched the yeast. Placed in my keezer at 58F(14.4C) by 14:17 and all cleaned up by 14:25

@ 11:45 on December 20th with Christmas coming I had to clear the refrigerator so transferred this over to a 5 gallon keg even though it was only 2.5 gallons. I didn’t take a lot of photos and or recorded a lot of it but can’t wait to taste this carbonated as its tasted good warm