Blonde Ale with 20sec O2 stone

I'm getting a bad feeling that I'm about to make more apple beer. But here we go anyway. The key thing here will be that I will only supply 20 seconds of O2 from the stone.

8lbs 2row
0.5lbs C15
0.25lbs Oats

1oz Willamette 5.3% AA

WLP001 with starter. 01-01-15. Lot 1010000

Arrowhead spring water

4:13 - Boiling O2 stone now.

4:35 - Done boiling. Got the grain milled. Got the strike pot out and setup. All is going well.

4:54 - Got the strike water in the mash tun. We will see if I hit my strike temp. I'll try for 152 but It's not too important to me.

5:07 - Mashed in around 152F. I burned my hand just a little. The strike temp needed to be 165F and started ar 160F. Usually I pull a gallon out of the mash tun and put it back in the pot, boil it, and add it back. It takes forever. This time I thought I would empty the whole mash tun back into the back and it would take 5 minutes to bump up the temp and we would call it good. There is no good way to pour the water from the Coleman Xtreme without it spilling out. And it was hot!!! Lesson learned. But it did get it heated back up real fast. So I got that going for me. Which is nice. I'm going to grill some fish now.

6:38 - Starting the boil. I added too much sparge water. The pre-boil gravity check was 1.032. Usually I get around 1.040. So lesson learned. Not too much sparge water. So the gravity should come in at 1.040ish. I help back some hops to keep it from being too bitter. The fish was good.

7:10 - I've decided to have a 90min boil. And I decided to add back a little bit of the extra sparge. I collected it in a gallon jug once I started boiling. Maybe it will bump up the gravity a little. This girl came by looking for her dog. I thought she was asking me about my dog so I went in to be sure I could find the snorted one. I figured she would just come and go and I'd never see her again but in a few minutes she comes back and asks for a leash and some water. So I helped her out. We'll see if I get the leash back.

8:59 - Beer is in the fermenter. O2 for 20 seconds. Got to clean up now. Everything went well. No sign of the leash yet. I didn't run the re-circulation pump on the chiller. It stalls often. So I just stirred. It went ok.

9:36 - All done. The beer cooled down to 62F. Colder than I had wanted. Stay tuned and we'll see how it comes out.