I don't know why I didn't post this until now but after my horrible brew day I woke up and I decided I was going to brew that beer again. And I was going to do it now. I drove myself to the bearded brewer and got the ingredients. I then heated up some boiling tap water and tried to cool it with the plate chiller via ice water and that seemed to work.
In that new setup I filled the basin with ice water and pumped it into the plate chiller. The beer ended up chilling great. The starting beer temp was around 64F. The gravity was different. It came in at around 1.065 and the previous batch was closer to 1.070. I added three packets of yeast with no starter.
I went to bed that night tired and happy. I haven't sampled the beer yet but I did note that the fermentation didn't seem very aggressive. I heard almost no noise from the airlock like I normally do. I'll keg it tomorrow and we will see how it turned out.
Edit: Kegged this beer today on May 19. Final Gravity was 1.025. The beer was a little more roasty than I was hoping for but it seems ok. I will enter it and we will see. It's not going to win an award but hopefully I get some good feedback.
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