Please critique my Black Butte clone recipe

**bricks** · 01-09-2012, 09:59 PM

Hey all. Semi new brewer wanting to clone Black Butte porter. I went to the Deschutes website and found the ingredients, just not the amounts of the ingredients. I thought I would throw this out for you more experienced brewers to critique and see what suggestions you may have.

Here are the ingredients:
7 lbs. Briess light LME
1 lb. Crystal 60
1 lb. Cara-pils
1 lb. Chocolate wheat
1 oz. nugget 60 min. addition
1 oz. cascade 15 min. addition
1 oz. tettnang 15 min. addition
1 pkg. Safale 04 dry yeast

Beersmith gives an estimated OG of 1.056, 32.9 IBU's, and 32.5 SRM for color. Since I have never come up with my own recipe, do the grains sound about right, or do I need to add to amounts or reduce amounts? I know that according to Deschutes, they use 2 row and the above listed grains. I substituted Nugget hops for Galena, as my LHBS did not have Galena.

Any suggestions or does this look like it may turn out pretty close?

Thanks in advance!

**bricks** · 01-10-2012, 12:04 PM

Anyone????

houge04 · 01-11-2012, 01:54 PM

This recipe comes from the Jamil podcast. They comfirmed it being cloned on the show, and I brewed it once and was very happy with the results.

10.58 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 75.95 %
1.39 lb Wheat Malt, Bel (2.0 SRM) Grain 9.98 %
0.70 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (120.0 SRM) Grain 5.03 %
0.42 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 3.02 %
0.42 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 3.02 %
0.42 lb Chocolate Malt (450.0 SRM) Grain 3.02 %
0.60 oz Galena [13.00 %] (90 min) Hops 29.8 IBU
0.25 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (30 min) Hops 3.8 IBU
0.25 oz Tettnang [4.50 %] (5 min) Hops 0.8 IBU
1 Pkgs English Ale (White Labs #WLP002) Yeast-Ale

You can substitute about 6 lbs. of extract for the 2-row. I hope this helps.

skibb · 01-11-2012, 02:12 PM

Yeah I would go with the recipe above. It's the same recipe as Deschutes (percentage wise), just scaled down to a 6 gallon batch. Here's a link to the show:
The Brewing Network.com - :

elproducto · 01-11-2012, 04:23 PM

EricCSU here at HBT has done a lot of work with these clones:

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/can-you-brew-recipe-deschutes-black-butte-porter-176186/