Christmas Porter

[196osh]

Freezing Cold Porter

Date:
Gyle Number:
Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 8 lbs. 13.0 oz 4000 grams 83.3%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 0 lbs. 10.5 oz 300 grams 6.3%
Chocolate Malt 1050 EBC 0 lbs. 7.0 oz 200 grams 4.2%
Belgian Special "B" 300 EBC 0 lbs. 7.0 oz 200 grams 4.2%
Amber 100 EBC 0 lbs. 3.5 oz 100 grams 2.1%

Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Herkules Whole 15.8 % 90 mins 0 lbs. 0.4 oz 10 grams 11.1%
Glacier Whole 7.8 % 15 mins 0 lbs. 1.4 oz 40 grams 44.4%
Glacier Whole 7.8 % 0 mins 0 lbs. 1.4 oz 40 grams 44.4%

Final Volume: 16 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.062
Final Gravity: 1.016
Alcohol Content: 6% ABV
Total Liquor: 27.4 Litres
Mash Liquor: 12 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 70 %
Bitterness: 42.1234422607947 EBU
Colour: 148 EBC

US-05 x 1

Not sure if this fits the style guidelines for a porter, but no matter.

Any idea's of if I should change anything?

[dave-o]

Good to see someone else who uses Herk and Glacier.
The glacier is delightful added late.

[mysterio]

Are those the Glacier's from Edinburgh ?

Let me know how you get on with them, I didn't get any flavour from them.

[dave-o]

For what it's worth, mine are the Edinburgh ones. They have a very floral, fruity aroma as they are, and i used 15g to flavour my Christmas ale. It had rather too strong a hoppy flavour at first but after a couple of months it's mellowed to a lovely fruity hoppy goodness.

Maybe you got a bad packet?

[mysterio]

15g, that surprises me. Maybe my tastebuds are shot. I used a full 100g late in a recent brown ale!

[196osh]

Yeah those are from Edinburgh.

Hopefully they are nice and hoppy. If you can't taste them due to shot tastebuds then I am up a creek.

Not sure what I will do with the other 20grams. If there is really no hop flavour then I might dry hop with them.