#10 Rebellion Porter

[Spud395]

No 10 all ready, I cant believe it

Had a near disaster heating the sparge water, left the tap open but I had a hose on it and it was down the plughole.
Ran the HLT dry. I was outside the shed and the smell made me check in.
End result is I have 2 nice clean elements, must a caught it just in time.

Here's the brew, again no pics, I thought it was batteries gone in the camera but I guess there's bigger problems.

Pale Malt 5 EBC 5000 grams 74.9%
Amber Malt 60 EBC 500 grams 7.5%
Brown Malt 150 EBC 500 grams 7.5%
Black Malt 1300 EBC 250 grams 3.7%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 100 grams 1.5%
Sugar, dark muscavado 0 EBC 330 grams 4.9%

Hops
Challenger Whole 6.8 % 60 mins 30 grams 25%
Fuggle Whole 4.8 % 60 mins 30 grams 25%
Challenger Whole 6.8 % 15 mins 20 grams 16.7%
Fuggle Whole 4.8 % 15 mins grams 16.7%
Challenger Whole 6.8 % 5 mins 10 grams 8.3%
Fuggle Whole 4.8 % 5 mins 10 grams 8.3%

Final Volume: 25 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.061
Final Gravity: 1.013
Alcohol Content: 6.3% ABV
Total Liquor: 36.9 Litres
Mash Liquor: 15.9 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness:41 EBU
Colour: 140 EBC

Wanted a more bitter brew was aiming for 50 IBU but that was for a 23L brew length.
I got a load of things wrong as I was all over the place, comming and going with the kids.
Should have got 23l at 1066 and I ended up with 25 at 1066 which is fine only for the IBU.
But I also had 20g of cascade in there FWH which had been previously used as dry hops, so I may have gotten some bitterness from them.
1st experience with pellet hops, I decided to put a hop sock around my copper pipe strainer.
Didnt work so well and I had to more or less spoon it out of the boiler.
I reckon all the hops ended up in the FV
Also a 1st time reusing yeast, used the nottingham from the secondry of my last brew bottled yesterday

[WishboneBrewery]

I bet that's a beauty
Interesting malts and the sugar is going to add a nice bit to it, and the hops look tasty too.

[maxashton]

That's looking like a lovely rich high gravity porter.
Hope you can get some pics of the finished product!

[Spud395]

Look's like this is about done, havnt taken a hydro reading yet but airlock is pretty static.
2nd generation nottingham seems to be a savage

[maxashton]

1st generation nottingham is pretty savage, if I remember rightly!

[Spud395]

Ok so I've been reading to much "Radical Brewing"

Decided to rack to a secondry tonight, but to add a twist I also added 100ml Old Jamica Rum and 10g of freshly groung black pepper .
This is a brew I was hoping to mature for a good while, next autumn really and I'd say it'll be then before it's ready now

[onelegout]

I also dry fired one of my kettle elements the other day (plugged it into the wrong cable!) but it was fine luckily : )
The rum and black pepper sound interesting Are you going to mature it in bottles or in some kind of secondary?

[Spud395]

I have it in secondry at the minute in a better bottler (PET carboy)
Will bottle soon enough and hide it away untill next snow
That quad IPA sounds interesting, how long is it ageing for now?