Nothing different than any other batch. I boiled only 60 minutes and still had a ton of wort left over. Probably should have gone another 30 minutes because my OG was a little low, but I was already planning a 30 minutes whirlpool and didn't want to drag the day out any longer.
I actually did my first brew yesterday, it took about two hours longer then it should have, because I was learning the system and had to do a little shopping in the AM for a water filter set-up. I had a 15 LB, 13.6 OZ grain bill, and my efficiency came out to 82 percent.
I had no issue with sparging , but I warmed the water on the range inside and it lost temp pretty fast when I took it to the garage where I was brewing. So I will have to eventually move to the electric unit.
I was expecting 1.072 OG and that's exactly what I got, so that was cool. Got the recipe from beer smith then entered the ingredients into the GF app, worked without incident.
The one true issue I had was when filling the fermenter (Plastic Big Mouth Bubbler). I calculated for 6.00 gallons in the fermenter, and GF app gave me 6.1 gal for mash and 2.8 gal for sparge. After sparged I had exactly 7 gal in GF. After 60 minute boil I was at like 6.75 gal. I boiled another 25 minutes to boil down a little so it would all fit in the fermenter.
I started the chilling/transfer and at just under 5.5 gallons wort stopped transferring. There was still about quarter to half a gallon of wort in the GF. I turned off pump and somewhat cleaned the filter, then turned the pump back on, but didn't realize I had not turned ball valve back on, and ended up throwing the wort.
I wonder why the wort stopped transferring initially? I thought it may have been a clogged filter, but most of my hops were in a drawstring bag, except for last 20 min addition, so not sure? On GF instructional video the guy says the hops make for a nice filter bed?
Anyway it was fun, and almost everything went smoothly. It's crazy how accurate the numbers were. GF app helps a lot.