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Black Butte XX

Black Butte XX

Specialty Beer • Extract • 5.5 gal

Lauritz

Imperial porter with coffee and cocoa nibs

December 10, 2011 am 11:26am

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Ingredients (Extract5.5 gal)

  • 1 lbs White Wheat Malt

    White Wheat Malt

    Weizens. Improves head retention in all beers. Contributes spicy flavor. Protein rest required.

  • 1 lbs Crystal 60; Great Western

    Crystal 60; Great Western

    Similar to C40 but with a more extensive roasting to a target color of 60° ASBC. Has a more pronounced caramel flavor to coincide with the color.

  • 1 lbs Cara-Pils® Malt; Briess

    Cara-Pils® Malt; Briess

    Characteristics & Applications: • The endosperm is completely glassy and will appear to be darker than standard Brewers Malt. • Carapils® is a very unique dextrine-style malt that adds body, foam retention, and beer stability without influencing color or flavor. • Use to upgrade all types of beer, including light colored beers. • The non-fermentables in Carapils® are very advantageous in balancing body and flavor of dark colored beers. • May be used with or without other specialty malts. • Low usage of 1-5% will help achieve desired results. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • 1 lbs American Chocolate Malt

    American Chocolate Malt

    Use in all types to adjust color and add nutty, toasted flavor. Chocolate flavor.

  • 1 lbs Chocolate Wheat Malt

    Chocolate Wheat Malt

    Intensifies aroma; improves color. For dark ales, alt, dark wheat, stout and porter.

  • 14 lbs Liquid Light Extract

    Liquid Light Extract

    A brewer can create any beer style with this extract when used as a base in conjunction with colored malts and selected hops. Contains no colored malts or hops.

  • 2 oz Chinook - 11.8 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Chinook

    Spicy, Medium to Heavy.Very strong bittering ability used in all American ales and lagers. Aroma is very floral.

  • 2 oz Hallertau - 4.3 AA% pellets; boiled 5 min

    Hallertau

    Good for all around bittering and finishing stock ales, Belgian ales, and continental style lagers. Aroma is mild, pleasant and flowery.

  • 4 oz Chocolate (dark) - cocao nibs (spread out in the last 15 min of boil) (omitted from calculations)

    Chocolate (dark)

    A general term for chocolates containing 15% to 35% chocolate liquor and less than 12% milk solids. Straight from the grinding mill with ingredients like cocoa butter, sugar and vanilla added to make it palatable. It has a deep to moderate chocolate flavor, ranging from fruity to earthy, with minimal dairy or milk flavor. Bean blend determines flavor more than milk ingredients.

  • 8 oz Coffee (grounds) - brewed in 1/4 gal cold water, filtered and added at bottling (omitted from calculations)

    Coffee (grounds)

    From the arabica plant. Beans are usually roasted and have a strong distinct bitter flavor. They are then ground and hot water is used to "steep" the unigue oils out of the grounds.

  • White Labs WLP007 Dry English Ale

    White Labs WLP007 Dry English Ale

    Clean, highly flocculant, and highly attenuative yeast. This yeast is similar to WLP002 in flavor profile, but is 10% more attenuative. This eliminates the residual sweetness, and makes the yeast well suited for high gravity ales. It is also reaches termi

Notes

Fermented on a 3rd Gen yeast cake. Cocoa Nibs added throughout the last 15 min of boil. Coffee cold brewed with 1/4 gal of cold water, filtered and added at bottling.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 23 - Specialty Beer

Subcategory: A - Specialty Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.110 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.021 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 33.6 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 11.9% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 90.0 IBU 0 - 100

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