Brewday 15-10-07 Old Slug

subsub · Post by **subsub** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:50 pm

As promised, I had a day off today and thought I'd do the Old Slug Porter recipe in BYO November. I've converted this from the original 19L to 24L.

Mash 60mins
Boil 60mins

OG 1043

4.2kg Marris Otter
37g Black Malt
30g Crystal
11g East Kent Goldings 60min
11g Fuggles 60min
11g East Kent Goldings 20min
11g Fuggles 20min

1 Whirfloc Tablet
Nottingham Yeast

Here come the pics
The Mash

1st hops in

2nd hops and chiller in

Cooling begins

Transfering the wort

The trub left behind

Fermenting next to a dry hopped Flowers and Winter Royal

All in all a good brewday and finished really quickly due to the short time mash and boil which pleased the wife for a change

Wez · Post by **Wez** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:53 pm

Nice one!

I'm impressed with the amount of trub left behind. Do you have a very vigourous boil and what temperature do you chill to before transferring to FV?

Wez

subsub · Post by **subsub** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:26 pm

Wez wrote:Nice one!

I'm impressed with the amount of trub left behind. Do you have a very vigourous boil and what temperature do you chill to before transferring to FV?

Wez

Cheers Wez, no I don't have a vigourous boil it's more of a steady boil as the little boiler only has one element. As for chilling, I generally chill down to about 30c and transfer, by the time the wort has transferred it's down to pitching temp

oblivious · Post by **oblivious** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:58 am

Hi subsub

looks like a nice brew day, i just though the recipe called for more black and crystal malt ?

subsub · Post by **subsub** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:52 am

oblivious wrote:Hi subsub

looks like a nice brew day, i just though the recipe called for more black and crystal malt ?

It's supposed to be a brown porter so I guess that's why there's so little dark malts in the original recipe. It's definately brown in the fermenter. If I like this brew I'll have a play with the recipe at a future date

subsub · Post by **subsub** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:54 am

DaaB wrote:Looks like you wont be running out of beer soon Subsub

No Daab it looks like you're right. I've got a Directors clone to do next week and then it'll be back to being the Lazy Brewery again

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:52 pm

Great pics SS

spearmint-wino · Post by **spearmint-wino** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:59 pm

Looking good there subsub, let me know how it turns out

subsub · Post by **subsub** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:06 am

Certainly will guys. Cheers Vossy, the pictures were better than usual as I got wifey to take them

SiHoltye · Post by **SiHoltye** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:37 pm

Any cheeky samples for research purposes yet subsub?

spearmint-wino · Post by **spearmint-wino** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:50 pm

Yeah how is it? I was thinking about giving this recipe a go after a I had a couple of Old Slugs from cask a little while back. Its a nice beer!

subsub · Post by **subsub** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:10 am

It's brown and smooth just like a traditional English session porter should be, well worth brewing. I'll post a piccy soon

subsub · Post by **subsub** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:01 am

There she is...

retourrbx · Post by **retourrbx** » Fri May 16, 2008 8:00 pm

Just had this at my local - awesome brew!!! How was yours? Looks a little lighter in colour than the one I had - it was basically the colour of Guiness... might look at this brew myself

subsub · Post by **subsub** » Fri May 16, 2008 11:41 pm

From what I remember my brew was exactly the some colour as the original as in a "Brown English Session Porter". They may have changed the recipe over time to make it darker to attract the Guinness drinkers. By the way it was a cracker

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Brewday 15-10-07 Old Slug

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