Biere Autre Brew Session

OG 1.062 FG 1.008 ABV a little over 7%. 87% apparent attenuation. Mashing with about 2.5 gallons of water. ~.5 gallon of that is distilled, the rest is tap water treated with campden. Will do some rinsing with campden-treated tap water. Bumped the heat up a couple of times during the mash. It would fall into the mid-high 140's and I'd bring it back to around 151F. At the end of the hour mash, I added heat slowly to bring the temp up in the mid 160's. Will let it sit for an additional 10 minutes for mash out. Thinned the mash out before boiling to 3 gallons. With temp correction, the gravity was at 1.065. That's about right on. Then, I added a bit more water to reach my boil volume. Tossed in a pellet at the start of chilling. We'll see how I like this nugget aroma when all is said and done. I'd be perfectly fine if it just gives a bit of earthiness as is common in BdG. Cooled the word down to around 72F and put it in a closet. Somehow I lost some gravity somewhere. I did add some water that I had pasteurized earlier for sparging/rinsing to top up the amount to a shade over 3 gallons (knowing that I would want to leave some sediment in the boil pot). It's sort of close, so hopefully it'll work out. 8:25pm 5/23/2019: Fermentation is already in full swing. Airlock is blasting away. The carboy is a muddy churn of yeast gobbling up simple sugars. It's only been about 4 hours or so since I pitched the wort on the yeast. Temp is around 74F. 10:03am 5/24/2019: Over the night crazy activity continued. When I checked earlier this morning the temperature had maxed out my temp strip (which goes to 80F). Decided to move it to a slightly bigger, cooler closet to keep it from running away completely. Temperature now is back on the strip between 78-80, which seems pretty ideal. Bottled a little over 3 gallons in this one. Went pretty conservative on the priming sugar because I imagine that the residual sugars in the beer are still fair game. At bottling, my gravity sample was a hazy orangish color. Just like the table beer, there's a lot of yeast left in suspension. I'm still getting hints of the fruitiness that Brewer's Gold gives off, but it combined with some weird earthiness from the Nugget hops. Not sure how I feel about it, but there's still some aging in store for the beer. Still drinks pretty light and crisp. The malt graininess seems pretty solid, but not very intense. A little boozy, perhaps, but most of that is hidden by the hops.