Thanksgiving brewing in NH

Dennis and I brewed a batch of 80/- ale this past Thanksgiving weekend. This is the recipe we used (the ingredients were my birthday present—thanks Dennis!). I wrote a small thermocouple datalogging sketch that would let us see the exact temperature of the brew throughout the process. Dennis made a quick graph in R:
As you can see, we were able to chill the wort quite quickly under the circumstances by continuously running cold water past the brewpot in the bathtub. The initial temperature change you can see between 170 and 180 minutes is a false reading, though, which we think happened because the thermocouple was touching the pot (which is metal and would cool much more quickly) rather than fully immersed in the wort.
After an always-tense 24 hours of no activity, the brew started bubbling away at a good pace by the time we left.

Here’s a timelapse of the brewing. It’s not too interesting. I took it because I thought we might be able to correlate the frames with temperature readings, but I never ended up setting up a good shot that would let us capture details like exactly when certain ingredients were added, etc…