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Three Beards for Charlie - London Porter (Jan 24th '09)

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:10 pm
by flytact
Finally getting around to posting this. My wife keeps hiding the camera from me.
Recipe from the forum based on the Fuller's London Porter, scaled to 60l.

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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.

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In the oven

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Weighing the grains

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Grains are crushed and waiting for the water

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Trusty assistant performing the runoff on the first batch.

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Vorlauf.

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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.
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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.

Re: Three Beards for Charlie - London Porter (Jan 24th '09)

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:32 pm
by Hogarth
Nice pics Flytact. I like your set up. Looks a bit chilly mind.

Do you get a 'just-roasted' taste when you use just-roasted grains, as in coffee?

Re: Three Beards for Charlie - London Porter (Jan 24th '09)

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:37 pm
by kevthebootboy
Great pictures Flytact, looks like a great brewday 8)