Made a 2L starter that was really active and later stepped it up to 3.5L about 5 days before the brew day. 

8/28/10 - Tried my hand at step mashing tonight, mashed in at 122 for a Protein rest, then raised the temp up to 152 for 60 mins.  The mash temp ramped up incredibly quickly only to stall at 140 for a while. 

Later for the mash out step I ran the burner in the HLT while recirulating and I the temps ramped up incredibly quickly.  I couldnt stop it in time and I got up to 174 before starting the run off.

Boiled for 75 minutes, since I didn't have enough volume for a 90 min boil but my gravity was on target. I forgot to add Irish Moss but the clarity was already pretty good.

Chilling was a huge success! I filled three large coolers full of ice from work and ended up using only two, but I pumped ice water through the chiller the whole time (no straight tap at all).  I ended up over chilling for the first time ever as well; the temp went from boiling to 55 in about 30 minutes. 

Oxygenated the wort which now was around 60 and pitched the starter into two carboys.