First time outdoors and doing BIAB, from doing all extract brewing indoors. I did not have my propane burner set up properly for the kettle, and it was not efficiently heating my water. I resorted to heating a gallon or so on the stove (much faster), then adding to the kettle to bring up temps. Then took hot water from kettle, and kept heaing it on the stove. Got my temps to 160 for the mash. My ground water is 45 degrees brrrr!
While mash was in progress, I rigged a stand for my kettle from an old grate off a barbecue (jeez I hope that is ok to use), then increased my flame distance to the kettle. This worked like a charm.
During this stand building phase, I quickly realized I never adjusted for the added water volume. I managed to empty out a bit of the wort into a bucket, but I still overshot my water volume. My OG and resultant SG were lower than expected. The beer tasted pretty decent in the fermentor, but My ABV will proabably only be around 4-4.5%. If my beer tasted decent, then that is all I care.
On a positive note, I plugged my grain bill and resultant "Higher" fermenter volume into brewers friend and my Brew House efficiency was 75%, so at least I know I am on the right track. At least, it looked that way to me.
This was yesterday - My Lockdown "light" Amber!