Recipe from the forum based on the Fuller's London Porter, scaled to 60l.
Day before the brew session started with prepping the yeast starter and making my own Brown Malt. I had recently made a huge 200kg+ malt purchase and decided to make 1.8kg of Brown malt from my MO rather than pay 4 times the amount at the LHBS.
In the oven
Weighing the grains
Grains are crushed and waiting for the water
Trusty assistant performing the runoff on the first batch.
Vorlauf.
Into the keg
Wife took the camera and took this picture from an upstairs bedroom. At this point I thought I had misplaced the camera outside and in deep trouble.
That's me at the bottom.
Racking the beer into a secondary to make room for the next batch of beer.
Yesterday (Feb 5th) was told that we are having people for dinner and the cupboards are dry so I racked the porter into a corny and gave it the old shake, rattle and roll force carbonation. Should be ready fro tonight.
Color is a dark brown and the taste is fantastic. Malty and roasty with a touch of chocolate.
