2009 Honey Porter
Robust Porter • Extract • 5 gal
May add some high quality vanilla extract prior to bottling. Tasted before racking to secondary, nice flavor, a bit sweet at 1.016, hoping that it loses a point or two in the secondary. 12 days in primary, 21 in secondary.
November 3, 2009 am 09:43am
Ingredients (Extract, 5 gal)
- 1 lbs
British Dark Crystal
British Dark Crystal
Sweet caramel flavor, mouthfeel. For porters, stouts, old ales and any dark ale.
- .25 lbs
Roasted Barley
Roasted Barley
Sweet, grainy, coffee flavor and a red to deep brown color. For porters and stouts.
- .5 lbs
Chocolate Malt; Breiss
Chocolate Malt; Breiss
Rich roasted coffee flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • Chocolate Malt is used in all beer styles for color adjustment with minor or no flavor contribution. • Use 1-10% for desired color in Porter and Stout Beer. • The chocolate flavor is very complementary when used in higher percentages in Brown Ales, Porters, Stouts and other Dark Beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.
- .25 lbs
De-Bittered Black Malt (Mout Roost 1400); Dingemans
De-Bittered Black Malt (Mout Roost 1400); Dingemans
Using an exclusive evaporative process, Dingemans De-Bittered Black Malt will contribute the same color characteristics as Black malt with a less astringent flavor.
- 3.3 lbs
Munich Liquid; Alexanders
Munich Liquid; Alexanders
Often used in belgian specialty ales, Dusseldorf Altbier, and Northern German Altbier.
- 2 lbs
Dry Light Extract
Dry Light Extract
White color, mild flavor. Will produce lagers and Pilseners and can also be used to produce darker beers when used in conjunction with colored malts. Made of pale malt.
- 1.5 lbs
Honey
Honey
Imparts sweet and dry taste. For honey and brown ales. Also: specialty ales.
- .5 lbs
Barley Flaked
Barley Flaked
Helps head retention, imparts creamy smoothness. For porters and stouts.
- 1 oz
Challenger - 6.9 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
Challenger
Popular bittering hop used primarily in British ales and lagers. Mild to moderate aroma, but quite spicy.
- 1 oz
Willamette - 4.9 AA% pellets; boiled 1 min
Willamette
This hop is used for finishing and dry hopping American and British style ales. Aroma is mild and pleasant ans slightly spicy
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Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04
Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04
A well-known, commercial English ale yeast, selected for its fast fermentation character and its ability to form a very compact sediment at the end of the fermentation, helping to improve beer clarity. This yeast is recommended for the production of a large range of ale beers and is specially well adapted to cask-conditioned ales and fermentation in cylindro-conical tanks. Sedimentation: high. Final gravity: medium. Pitching instructions: Re-hydrate the dry yeast into yeast cream in a stirred vessel prior to pitching. Sprinkle the dry yeast in 10 times its own weight of sterile water or wort at 27C ± 3C. Once the expected weight of dry yeast is reconstituted into cream by this method (this takes about 15 to 30 minutes), maintain a gentle stirring for another 30 minutes. Then pitch the resultant cream into the fermentation vessel. Alternatively, pitch dry yeast directly in the fermentation vessel providing the temperature of the wort is above 20C. Progressively sprinkle the dry yeast into the wort ensuring the yeast covers all the surface of wort available in order to avoid clumps. Leave for 30 minutes and then mix the wort e.g. using aeration.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 12 - Porter
Subcategory: B - Robust Porter
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.061 | 1.048 - 1.065 | |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.014 | 1.012 - 1.016 | |
| Color: | 29.5 SRM | 22 - 35 | |
| Alcohol: | 6.1% ABV | 4.8% - 6.5% | |
| Bitterness: | 26.4 IBU | 25 - 50 |
Discussion
Not too shabby
2009-12-24 6:55pm
I used 3 oz of organic vanilla extract, turned out to be a bit much, but it seems to calm down a little each week. The beer came out smooth and creamy. My friends seem to really enjoy it.
