After running test and calibrating the system we had the first brewday on the system last week. We brewed an IPA tentatively named Test IPA. This particular IPA uses several of my favorite hop varities including Citra, Mosaic, Amarillo, Nugget, and Simcoe. The estimated Abv. is 6.8 estimated IBUs are about 84 and the SRM should be about 9.3. The malt bill is pretty basic and includes 2-row, C-40, and Cara-Pils. We used American Ale II yeast 1272 by Wyeast.
Everything went smooth until I got ready to chill the wort and realized i didn't have a female coupler to allow me to connect the hose to the chiller. I had to get super creative real fast and ended up making a coupler with foil tape that I used to make the MT and HLT jackets. I worked but leaked a bit so I held it in the HLT to avoid flooding the room. While holding the improvised coupler together and trying to get the right flow of wort running through the chillers i lost about 4 gallons of wort into a clean yet unsanitized bucket. After I filled my first two carboys I realized I was going to be short on wort and dumped the wort from the bucket back into the BK and finished filling the last carboy. I pitched the yeast and labeled the carboy with the suspect wort so we will see what happens with that carboy.