Breckenridge vanilla porter - Page 3

kitemanks · 02-07-2012, 06:32 PM

I put the vanilla in the last 10 minutes of the boil and it smoothed the flavor but I didn't notice any vanilla almost like the real thing. I also added more vanilla once kegged. and I still really didn't taste it. I hit this for some reason with beer gas and it now tastes similar to guiness. When you make this beer carbonate it at 2.2 and you should be fine. It tasted so good in the fermenter I had to have a glass... even flat it was fantastic.

kitemanks · 02-07-2012, 06:53 PM

I think the big opportunity with the recipe I came up with is the Chocolate Malt. Either less of it or none at all.

10 Gallon recipe

16.25 lbs Pale malt
1.00 lbs Caramel/Crystal malt-60L
.50 Black Patent malt (500 SRM)
.50 Chocolate Malt (350 SRM)

Single infusion mash @ 154 90 minutes

.65 0Z Perle (6.5%) boil 90 minutes
.75 OZ Tettnang (4.8%) boil 90 minutes
10 minute boil Servomyces 1 capsule +.50 Wyeast nutrient
Oxygenate with stone at a rate of 1 liter/minute for 2 minutes.

Ferment @ 68 with SB-05 for 7 days in connical. Keg and check final gravity.

SonOfLiberty · 02-23-2012, 05:16 AM

Thanks so much Kite. I'm having my first taste of this brew and really liking it. I was looking at an earlier posting that listed Chinook and Goulding additions.Is there a reason you left them out. Same with the roasted barley. I would expect a small addition of vanilla beans as well as a 3-4 day addition of raw beans to the secondary. That would add the vanilla. Your recipe looks delicious and I may do a 5gal batch just to try it out. Thanks for taking the time to experiment and share. Maybe with a few of us working together and sharing, we can tweak it to what it should be.

kitemanks · 02-23-2012, 05:02 PM

I Love lacing and or legs on my glass and I always have flaked on hand but many breweries don't use flake anymore. If seems mills are a little tougher than they used to be. This allows the Breweries to customize the roast they use. A good example is Guiness Draught.

In this recipie attempt I was trying to 1)match the color 2)match the gravity 3) match the IBUs 4) match as many of the primary ingridents as possible. I think that goal was achieved.

Im my opinion the commercial beer has alot of coffee flavor that is not overpowering. I think the vanilla really smooths this out. I don't even taste vanilla in the fore front, middle, or end of the beer. I think the vanilla translates to a sweetness that quiets the coffee not making it so robust.

So I added the Black patent (milled as well) because I felt I could get a heavier coffee flavor and by not using very much maintain the redish color of the beer. I also didn't use Chinook hops because my boils sometimes go long and that is a high alpha hop. Some times, I believe the hops listed on websites to be a bit misleading. Some are used interchangably by the brewer or in such a ratio that at our volume of beer the mix is negligable. Trying to hit a low IBU beer is easier without using a high alpha hop. That should do it.

SonOfLiberty · 02-26-2012, 06:54 AM

Thanks Kite. The insight is golden. I agree that breweries list hop additions that may be negligible to the homebrewer and may be misleading. This is why I tend to rely more on homebrewer experience.

I'm going to give your recipe a go round. Probably on a 5 gal scale to test. I'd like to add some vanilla beans to the secondary for a couple days. May break it into two 2.5 gal batches, one with and one w/o, to taste.

I've been looking for a good porter to add to rotation and I may have found it. I plan to brew next weekend. I hope to post my results (I suffer from CRS at times)

jbsg02 · 02-26-2012, 04:15 PM

This beer is so much better if you can find it on tap somewhere, the bottled version really doesn't do it justice

cherokee180c · 02-26-2012, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by BrewBrain

Not the same beer, but I've tried the vanilla porter from Dry Dock Brewing and found it excellent. They have homebrew versions of their recipes on their site. I've got the AG version of the vanilla porter clearing now.

I have this NB all grain kit in my secondary with the included 5 vanilla beans floating in the carboy. The only thing I was really disappointed in was the grind of the grain from NB. It was poor, and I missed my OG to the low side pretty significantly. Hopefully the beer will still taste good. I brewed the Caribou Slobber kit from NB that I purchased at the same time and my buddy re-ground the grains. I actually exceeded the OG targets significantly from the higher efficiency.

**MrSpiffy** · 02-26-2012, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by BrewBrain

Not the same beer, but I've tried the vanilla porter from Dry Dock Brewing and found it excellent. They have homebrew versions of their recipes on their site. I've got the AG version of the vanilla porter clearing now.

I'm having a tough time finding any recipes on their site. My guess is they've taken them down since your post. Any chance you still have the recipe?

SonOfLiberty · 02-28-2012, 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by jbsg02

This beer is so much better if you can find it on tap somewhere, the bottled version really doesn't do it justice

I did some looking and it is not available in Austin or any of the surrounding towns (that I am aware of). The bottled version was really good though. If/When I make it up to Colorado, I'll definitely have to try it on tap!

**tjderrington** · 02-28-2012, 04:50 PM

My wife and I had the Breck Vanilla Porter at the Brewery after a full day on the slopes back in January. She flew a six pack back to Houston with her not knowing we could find it at the local HEB.

She loves the stuff, for me its just ok. I can attest that it tastes much better on tap after a day on the slopes!