Yes and if you wanted to repeat it and you took good notes on your process that day, and did a mash out, you would probably duplicate that dandy beer!
John
Notes ?
I fly sparge and the mash out happens in the kettle as the wort gets transferred to the kettle and the flame is on.
I write a recipe with BeerSmith, then get out the grain, if for instance it says 18.2 pounds of base malt, I might get 18, might get 19 or wtf, 20 is close enough. When it come to hops, most of the time full ounces, or if there isn't much left to put up, wtf it all goes in, it will be good beer and I will be happy. I have several hydrometers and a refractometer, don't bother using any of them, if the recipe says the beer should be 7.3% abv, if it ends up being 6.9 or 8, it's still beer and I'll be happy and drink it. I'm just brewing for me and anyone that happens to come over. The Chief of Police has been by and sampled several as well, I'll share it with anyone that wants to try it and send them home with some if they want it. It's been years sine I brewed a beer that I wasn't happy with the outcome and brewed enough different beers that it doesn't matter. Now due to my present job role, I've only brewed twice in about the last two years, but still have a bunch of beer on-deck and in four solaras(two of which are oak barrels), and currently a Belgian Golden Strong in an oak barrel as well, that went into the barrel when I was home around Christmas.
Now there was one beer that I brewed a long time ago, that this guy came over to help and kept asking how we could make it bigger, it was a RIS that ended up somewhere near 18%. I would like to have another batch of that, but really don't have a clue as to how much grain was actually used, as we ended up doing a partygyle for the second & third beers from that grain, used multiple process on the big RIS (boiled down some of the first runnings separately into almost a syrup and added it back to the main boil) , and started with WLP-006 yeast and added several vials of WLP-099 several days into it (as soon as we could get it there since the original plan was for a "more normal" beer). And to add to the confusion, we were drinking during that brew as well. I do have a bottle or two of that beer left. The last few that I've opened, I've shared with special friends. I called that beer, "The Big Monster RIS".
All blasphemy, I know.