It's based on GW's Fullers London Porter recipe, but I just used up some of my malts, so some of the amounts are slightly increased. I used some higher alpha First Gold in addition to the fuggles for bittering, as the 100g of 3.6%AA fuggles wouldn't have been enough on their own to achieve 35EBU's.
I was brewing in an evening and was being rushed to get my mash on as dinner was ready, so I doughed in to my strike water that was too hot and ended up with a mash temperature nearer to 68C instead of 66C, and had no time to try and add some cold water!
Anyway the rest of the brew evening/night went ok, apart from the pi$$ing rain that arrived as I was boiling outside my shed! The parasol that I erected over my boiler, failed to stop the driving rain from soaking the socket end of my extension lead reel. Somehow me and my kit survived the incident to tell the tail.
London Porter - 12.08.14
Batch Size (L): 22.5
Total Grain (kg): 5.625
Total Hops (g): 76.0
Wort into Boiler (L): 32.0
Pre-boil Gravity (OG): 1.040
Original Gravity (OG): 1.054
Final Gravity (FG): 1.018
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 4.90 %
Colour (EBC): 117.0
Bitterness (IBU): 35.0 (Tinseth)
Mash Efficiency (%): 76.0
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 74.0
Boil Time (Minutes): 60
Mash (Minutes): 90 @67-68C
CRS: 0.5ml/L
DLS: 0.1g/L
Grain Bill
4.230 kg Maris Otter Pale Malt 5.0 EBC
0.720 kg Brown Malt 150.0 EBC
0.555 kg Dark Crystal Malt 240.0 EBC
0.120 kg Chocolate Malt 800.0 EBC
Hop Bill
35.0 g First Gold Whole 8.00%AA @ 60 Minutes
20.0 g Fuggles Whole 3.60%AA @ 60 Minutes
21.0 g Fuggles Whole 3.60%AA @ 10 Minutes
Misc Bill
1 tbsp Irish Moss @ 10 Minutes (Boil)
Yeast
Fermentis S-04 @20-21C
Grain bill - there is some Maris Otter under there somewhere.
This was one of the lower readings!
First runnings looking and smelling good.
Collecting the wort.
60min hops, First Gold & Fuggles.
Massive foam as it came to the boil!
Finally into the FV after a slow cooling.
Prepping the S-04
Krausen within 24 hours.
1 week taster bottle, mild coffee, liquorice, bready and fruity!
