i'm doing the brown from the midwest kit again, since there was a sale. using powdered sugar for the starter. steeped the grains for about 30 minutes, with the temperature fluctuating between 160-170°. i sparged the grain bag with about 2 cups of 212° water. hopefully these high temperatures won't mess with the flavor, but i'm not getting too anal about it. calibrated my dial, which was waaay off. now i have a scientific thermometer and calibrated to several points around my usual target temperature so dial should be more accurate.
arrgh! forgot to take a gravity reading. oh well, i guess we can guess it is like previous batches. starter was in good shape, and chilling the wort in a tub of salted snow water worked super-fast like last time. 212→90° in about 15 minutes. adding tap water to the 90° extract wort brought it to a nice 70°. This is the second batch using unfiltered tap water. Hopefully the water supply is free of anything that would mess with the flavor or give an infection.
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