winter smoke
Robust Porter • All Grain • 4.25 gal
trying for a subtle smokey flavor
December 28, 2009 pm 06:58pm
Ingredients (All Grain, 4.25 gal)
- 8.25 lbs
Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt; Thomas Fawcett
Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt; Thomas Fawcett
A principal ingredient of cask ales using heritage barleys.
- .5 lbs
British Crystal 55°L
British Crystal 55°L
Sweet caramel flavor, adds mouthfeel and head retention. For pale or amber ales.
- .75 lbs
Chocolate Malt; Thomas Fawcett
Chocolate Malt; Thomas Fawcett
Roasted coffee flavor.
- .4 lbs
Smoked Malt; Weyermann®
Smoked Malt; Weyermann®
German-grown two-row spring barley (2004 harvest). Product Characteristics: Unique in the world. Initially formulated specifically for the traditional Bamberg Rauchbier (Bamberg Smoked Beer). Can be used for any kind of lager or ale with a complex flavor. Carefully dried over hot, smoky ambers of well-aged beech wood to achieve characteristic smoky flavor, while preserving relatively pale color. Suitable for beers of all strengths, from “regular” to Märzen to Doppelbock. Recommended Quantities: Up to 100% of total grain bill. Suitability (beer styles): Lagers: Bamberg-style Rauchbier, unfiltered barley-based lagers. Ales: Alaskan smoked, Scottish
- .5 lbs
British Dark Crystal
British Dark Crystal
Sweet caramel flavor, mouthfeel. For porters, stouts, old ales and any dark ale.
- .6 oz
Fuggle - 7.0 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
Fuggle
Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.
- .7 oz
East Kent Goldings - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 20 min
East Kent Goldings
Mild, slightly flowery.
- .7 oz
East Kent Goldings - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 1 min
East Kent Goldings
Mild, slightly flowery.
- 1 ea
Vanilla (whole bean) - (omitted from calculations)
Vanilla (whole bean)
Vanilla Beans have a sweet, perfumed aroma with a woody or smoky flavor. Pure Vanilla Extract has a similar aroma. Vanilla Beans are the long, greenish-yellow seed pods of the tropical orchid plant, Vanilla planifolia. Before the plant flowers, the pods are picked, unripe, and cured until they're dark brown. The process takes up to six months.
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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: | 1.015 | 1.012 - 1.016 | |
| Color: | 27.4 SRM | 22 - 35 | |
| Alcohol: | 6.1% ABV | 4.8% - 6.5% | |
| Bitterness: | 32.2 IBU | 25 - 50 |
