06-09-08 Brewday: Whitbread London Porter (1850)

mb · Post by mb » Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:58 pm

first fixture of the 2008-2009 season, another go at a durden park recipe

for 21L at 65% efficiency, OG 1060

5100g Maris Otter Pale Malt
1100g Brown Malt
350g Chocolate (recipe says black, but i didn't have any)
130g Fuggles at start of boil (4.2% IBU, i make it 60-ish IBUs)

WLP002 yeast

mashed for 2 hours, batch sparged, boiled for 75 mins.

i got 19L, i underestimated the losses to all those hops. maybe i'll try hop-sparging next time.

the wort tasted very luscious, having just read si's comments below on his version i'm really looking forward to this one - only 4 months to wait!

spearmint-wino · Post by **spearmint-wino** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:05 pm

Good work mb... look forward to trying this one at LAB

Easy on the carbonation this time though eh?

oblivious · Post by **oblivious** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:40 pm

Looks good, should be interesting with the change to chocolate malt, all my porters so far had the greater percentage of of chocolate malt an turned out very nice

I am doing this recipe in two weeks time with an American friend

booldawg · Post by **booldawg** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:38 pm

Sounds tasty. Definitely the right time of year to get a porter on the go

mixbrewery · Post by **mixbrewery** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:18 pm

I'm planning this one for a couple of weeks time.
If i match mb's recipe we can have a comparsion tasting at the Jan LAB session.

Come on Dan you know you want to!

spearmint-wino · Post by **spearmint-wino** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:24 am

I DO want to... need to get some extra grain in for it though so it won't be this weekend

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06-09-08 Brewday: Whitbread London Porter (1850)

06-09-08 Brewday: Whitbread London Porter (1850)