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London Porter

Post by barney » Sat Nov 24, 2012 6:30 pm

Planning on doing this in a couple of weeks to follow on the yeast cake of a brown ale being brewed tomorrow.

19ltr @1070

Grist
4400g Maris Otter
680g Crystal
340g Chocolate

Hops
60 IBU goldings

Yeast
200ml thick slurry WLP013

Dry hop
20g goldings

Does it look OK?

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Re: London Porter

Post by Goulders » Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:01 pm

Have you done GW's fullers London porter before? I have the ingredients (you will need brown and black malt too) and is supposed to be superb.

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Re: London Porter

Post by barney » Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:53 pm

Goulders wrote:Have you done GW's fullers London porter before? I have the ingredients (you will need brown and black malt too) and is supposed to be superb.
I have not. what's the recipe?

I may even have time to make the malts.

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Re: London Porter

Post by Goulders » Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:22 pm

There's a recipe on BYO HERE

But GW's is 90 min mash and boil

23l - OG 1054 - FG 1014 - 75%Efficiency
EBU 33 abv 5.2%

Pale Malt 4.23kg
Brown Malt 665g
Crystal 555g
Choc Malt 110g

Fuggles (4.9%) 90 mins - 64g 10 mins- 21g

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Re: London Porter

Post by WishboneBrewery » Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:01 pm

Brown Malt is a must in a London Porter.

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Re: Odp: London Porter

Post by zgoda » Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:52 am

The more brown malt you put in, the longer it would need to mature. But GW's London Porter is worth the wait, I'm brewing it every summer for my wife's birthday and it comes out great in November.

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Re: London Porter

Post by orlando » Mon Nov 26, 2012 8:09 am

Couldn't agree more, the FLP clone is lovely and the addition of brown malt I also think is an essential, distinguishing malt. No need to dry hop this either as it is all about the malt for me. Just kegged another version of this brew using oak kilned malt with the addition of 250ml of fresh brewed coffee. If the aroma and taste from the FV is anything to go by Xmas is going to be exceptionally jolly. \:D/ :beer:
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Re: London Porter

Post by barney » Mon Nov 26, 2012 8:47 am

Thanks for the advices, brown malt it is.:)

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Re: London Porter

Post by Barley Water » Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:06 pm

Yup I agree, brown malt is necessary for a great brown porter. Myself and a couple of the ladies in my brew club will be making an Imperial Brown Porter this coming weekend with an O.G. of hopefully 1.080. We are also going to add a couple of split vanilla beans, bourbon and probabaly oak the stuff as well, should make for a hell of a winter warmer. :D
Drinking:Saison (in bottles), Belgian Dubbel (in bottles), Oud Bruin (in bottles), Olde Ale (in bottles),
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Re: London Porter

Post by Capn Ahab » Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:27 pm

barney wrote:Planning on doing this in a couple of weeks to follow on the yeast cake of a brown ale being brewed tomorrow.

19ltr @1070

Grist
4400g Maris Otter
680g Crystal
340g Chocolate

Hops
60 IBU goldings

Yeast
200ml thick slurry WLP013

Dry hop
20g goldings

Does it look OK?

You sure about them numbers mate? If that recipe is for 19 l of finished beer, then taking into account hop, trub and yeast loss, you'd need to be hitting about 95% extract efficiency to get an OG of 1.070 out of 5.42 kg of grain.

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