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Mistake #2 Electric Boogaloo
After getting the mash completed I removed the grains from the wort and sparged the grain bag. Sparging is a fancy name for pouring fresh water over the grains to get all of the extract from the grain bag. I was excited and then started to add the 5.5lbs of dry extract. After dumping half of the bag I realized that I was going to have a boil-over problem because I was coming dangerously close to the rim of the brewpot and still had 1 hour of rolling boil to go. So I decided to empty some of the wort from the main brewpot into my smaller 8qt pot and boil it simultaneously. At this point I added 1 oz of Kent Golding bittering hops and calcium sulfate to the wort. I made sure to divide the hops between the two pots in an effort to keep the wort consistent. Since I avoided the dreaded boil-over splitting the wort between the two pots seemed like a good solution to the problem
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