Brown porter

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oblivious

Brown porter

Post by oblivious » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:25 pm

Hi all brew this up to day

25L O.G. 1.045

Maris otter 4.45kg
Chocolate malt 300g
Crystal malt 230g
Special B 110g

Hops (30 IBU'S)

Fuggles 4.5% 50g 60 minutes
Fuggles 4.5% 25g 10 minutes

Yeast 1.8 liter starter of WLP005
Last edited by oblivious on Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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oblivious

Post by oblivious » Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:06 pm

Hopefully the chocolate with give nice roast background, but my imperial porter use 700g or so of chocolate malt :wink:
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oblivious

Post by oblivious » Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:16 pm

I am looking forward to we how the Ringwood yeast brings out the chocolate malt
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Post by ECR » Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:49 pm

Hope it's going/gone well :D
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Post by Jim » Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:20 pm

I keep thinking about making a nice dark porter - I never seem to get round to it though. Hope this one turns out well.
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oblivious

Post by oblivious » Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:32 pm

Jim wrote:I keep thinking about making a nice dark porter - I never seem to get round to it though. Hope this one turns out well.
If you ever get round to it brown malt works great with chocolate malt
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oblivious

Post by oblivious » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:13 am

Kegged and bottled a few of these last night, F.O. 1.010, 4.6%. the last of the brewing till September :wink:
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booldawg

Post by booldawg » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:24 am

Sounds like all went well. Definitely a beer for the autumn nights 8)
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mysterio

Post by mysterio » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:31 am

Looks good... I like the idea of Special B, reminds me of Anchor porter. Not sure if they use it but it tastes like it. Nice toffee/raisin flavour going on.
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oblivious

Post by oblivious » Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:05 pm

booldawg wrote:Sounds like all went well. Definitely a beer for the autumn nights 8)
Thats just the start it whitbread 1850 and maybe even the 1890 porter come September :D
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Post by oblivious » Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:06 pm

mysterio wrote:Looks good... I like the idea of Special B, reminds me of Anchor porter. Not sure if they use it but it tastes like it. Nice toffee/raisin flavour going on.
Is a nice crystal malt to play around with in porter worth a try
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