I had a rough one yesterday, brewed a brown mild, but started off on the wrong foot immediately. Didn?t realize it but my strike water volume was too low, roughly a little more than 2 gal for a 5.5 gal batch. Total volume for this was 8.75 gal. So it was just big dough balls in there. I got more water going so roughly 4.5 gallons in mash now with grains, took roughly 15 min. Mashed for 60, fly sparged into the kettle for about 7 gallons and took a reading of 1.02, my goal was 1.031 and 7.5 gal in the kettle preboil. Conundrum, so i didn?t add water to thin it out even more and i started looking up ways to increase my SG. No DME on hand so I?m stuck. 60 minute boil, 2 small additions of hops, and crushed coriander seed at 5 min mark. Post boil, I?m reading on the hydrometer 1.052and I?m shocked. Post boil volume slightly more that 4 gallons so i really boiled it off. I used a calculator to determine if i added 1.5ish gallons of water it would bring me down to my post boil SG of 1.037 target. My brain couldn?t process adding so much water so i got it to 5 gallons by adding almost s full gallon of water. It now read around 1.045. Now this whole time I?ve had out my WLP005 to warm to wort temp. Using my insulated bags and frozen 2 liter set up it took me about 5 hours to get to pitching temp...all the while my yeast was out during a 68 degree beautiful Long Beach day. I pitched last night about 7 and see no activity. I know I?ve given multiple crazy variables as to why I?m not seeing activity but i hope some of you could muddle through this and give me some advice. Did the water make it too thin? Did i leave my yeast out too long and it died? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.