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Brown McPorter

Brown McPorter

Brown Porter • All Grain • 5.5 gal

dmccrackin

Smooth move

March 31, 2009 am 12:52am

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Ingredients (All Grain5.5 gal)

  • 8 lbs Pale Ale Malt; Briess

    Pale Ale Malt; Briess

    Golden color with a malty flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • Can be used as a base malt. • More pronounced malty flavor than 2-Row Brewers Malt. • Use with 2-Row Brewers Malt for rich malt flavor and additional color. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • 1 lbs Brown; Crisp

    Brown; Crisp

    ‘Coffee’ notes for stouts and porters. Smooth mouth-feel.

  • 1 lbs Caramel Malt 40L; Briess

    Caramel Malt 40L; Briess

    Sweet, caramel, toffee flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • In contrast to Brewers Malt, glassiness is a distinguishing characteristic of Caramel Malt. The glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components giving true Caramel Malt the ability to contribute body (mouthfeel), foam, foam retention, and extended beer stability, while contributing color and unique caramel flavor. • Caramel Malt 40L is a roasted caramel malt that imparts golden to light red color. • Use 3-7% for Pilsener-style beers for balance. • Use 5-15% to provide color, sweetness and color to light amber beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • .625 lbs American Chocolate Malt

    American Chocolate Malt

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

  • 1 oz East Kent Goldings - 5.4 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    East Kent Goldings

    Mild, slightly flowery.

  • 1 oz East Kent Goldings - 5.4 AA% pellets; boiled 10 min

    East Kent Goldings

    Mild, slightly flowery.

  • Wyeast 1098 British Ale™

    Wyeast 1098 British Ale™

    From Whitbread. Ferments dry and crisp, slightly tart, fruity and well-balanced. Ferments well down to 65F.

Notes

Brewed 4/5/09. I used 2 lov maris otter instead of american 2 row. Mashed at 152. O.G. 1.052. Into 2nd 4/19 at 1.014. Into the keg 4/29 at 1.014 Brewed 2/8/10 O.G. 1.056. Added salts, 10gallon. Mashed at 154. 78% efficiency. Into keg 2/22/10 at 1.018.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 12 - Porter

Subcategory: A - Brown Porter

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.050 1.040 - 1.052
Terminal Gravity: 1.015 1.008 - 1.014
Color: 23.5 SRM 20 - 30
Alcohol: 4.7% ABV 4% - 5.4%
Bitterness: 28.9 IBU 18 - 35

Discussion

dmccrackin

Pretty Damn Good

2009-05-21 1:35am

This beer was good.

dmccrackin

Great Beer

2009-05-21 10:55am

This turned out great. Age 1-2 weeks for the roast to mellow.

dmccrackin

Great beer

2009-06-02 11:41am

This was a great beer. Very drinkable. Although it already fits the style very well, I would like to have it with a little more body and residual sweetness. I think that would round out the flavors, balance the roasted notes better, and make it even more delicious. As is, the roasted notes kind of stood alone, and made the beer seem dry. Nevertheless, it is very delicious!

dmccrackin

Runner up

2009-06-15 7:08pm

Barley's Brewery Homebrew Competition 6/14/09. Scored 41.

dmccrackin

First place

2010-05-03 11:55pm

NHC East region, 2010. I mashed a little higher and finished at 1.018. Brewed with 1968.

dmccrackin

Bastardization

2011-01-28 12:18pm

Brewed 1/27/11. 11 Gallon batch. Grain bill was: 10 lb Maris Otter 6 lb Pilsner - bad idea. Tasted grainy! 2 lb Crystal 40 1 lb 3 oz Brown (ran out) 1 lb Chocolate 1/2 lb Pale Chocolate 1/2 lb Caramunich I 1/4 lb Vienna Mashed at 154. O.G. 1.054. Pitched 2 liters/carboy 1968 off a 24hr stir plate. Kegged with Gelatin 2/6/11. F.G. 1.020. Next time mash a little lower if using 1968 yeast.

dmccrackin

Brewed 12/23/12

2012-12-27 11:03am

Original Recipe. Mashed at 151, repitched 1098, thin slurry 175 ml per carboy. Used Willamette instead of EKG. O.G. 1.051.

dmccrackin

Kegged 1/6/13

2013-01-06 1:59pm

F.G. 1.016. Smells nice and chocolatty!

dmccrackin

Brewed Spring 2014

2014-04-07 10:03am

Subbed 1/2 the brown malt for victory, and bumped the chocolate malt to make up the color. OG was about 1.049 and F.G was 1.016

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