Altbeir recipe

Efficiency was really low, after 60 min mash OG was ~1.034. To increase the OG I increased the boil to 90 min, this brought the OG up to 1.050, but lost a decent amount of volume. Only had about 2.5-3 gallon that went in to the fermenter. Found out later the reason for the low OG was because the thermometer was not reading accurately and was off by a good amount and as a result the mash temp was much lower than it should have been.

The wort was chilled using the new wort chiller that was hooked up to a submersion pump, it cooled the wort to around 70 degress in about 15-20 min. Was very effective! After cooling to ~70 degrees the wort was transferred to the primary bucket and taken home (brew day was at defalcos for national homebrew day). The wort was chilled further in an ice bath for about 2.5 hours and the wort got to around 40 degrees. The yeast was pitched at this point.

Pitched 2 smack packs of 1007 (wyeast) that were activated (smacked) the day before brewday so the yeast had ~18 hours to revive before being pitched.

To "lager" this beer the primary fermenter was kept in a water bath with a frozen 4L bottle to keep the temp around 60 degrees which is the temp I want this yeast to ferment at.

Took about 24 hours before seeing any signs of fermentation (aka bubbles). Likely due to lower fermentation, the yeast may have been stressed and/or had longer lag time because they were pitched into low temp wort.