All-Grain - Bee Cave Brewery Robust Porter - Page 50

**rico567** · 02-04-2012, 05:05 PM

I'm now drinking my second batch of this, and it's the best porter I've ever brewed....I now consider it a regular brew. I didn't secondary this beer whatever. A month in the primary and then right into the bottles. Five weeks later, it was very good, and it keeps getting better.

**Bigcorona** · 02-08-2012, 01:38 AM

"This ferments vigorously" is an under statement. Wow!

tt0027 · 02-16-2012, 03:42 PM

Can anyone help convert this recipe to a BIAB 3 gallon, no sparge? This will be my first AG and I want to try a half-batch with the equipment I already have as I'm limited to what I can boil on the stove. I am trying to figure out all of the settings to change in Beersmith2 to be able to scale this as a BIAB, but I'm not there yet. Hoping if someone can assist in the recipe, I can reverse engineer a bit....

Any suggestions on the beersmith settings would be awesome too!

Thanks!

tennesseean_87 · 02-16-2012, 05:37 PM

I brewed it 2.75 gallons stovetop BIAB. I cut the recipe in half, basically, might have scaled the grist just a bit for efficiency (I scaled to 70% and hit 73.x%).

I did a sparge, though. I prepared 4 gallons of water via the primer and mashed at ~1.25 qt/lb and sparged with the rest. I guess for no-sparge you just mash with the full volume. I hit my volume into fermenter spot on with some good bag squeezing.

**Yourrealdad** · 02-20-2012, 02:34 PM

I picked up the ingredients for this and it is my second brew ever and I am doing an extract version.
The guy who was helping me out told me to use two packages of Nottingham dry yeast, my question is, is this too much yeast?

It sounds like this ferments pretty well anyways, and doesn't dry yeast have more cells than a liquid ( I was assuming this was using liquid in the recipe)

I also will be rehydrating the yeast before pitching, no proofing or starter, just water.

So should I use one packet or two?

Thank you

tennesseean_87 · 02-20-2012, 03:08 PM

I just bottled mine after about 8 weeks in primary. Half of it got the coffee treatment, which, after tasting, I hope mellows with time. It finished at about 1.026, which is a little high, but it tasted good (without coffee). The last brew I did also finished high, so I may need to check my thermometer.

**midfielder5** · 02-20-2012, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yourrealdad

( I was assuming this was using liquid in the recipe)
I also will be rehydrating the yeast ...
So should I use one packet or two?
Thank you

the OP calls for 1 pkg dry Notty rehydrated. Good luck.

**rico567** · 02-20-2012, 06:34 PM

I'm on my second batch. Only yeast used on either batch was 1 pkg Nottingham, just sprinkled right into the bucket before sealing down the lid. Both batches have been great.

Jbt · 02-20-2012, 06:41 PM

I had enough problems keeping this one in the bucket with 1 pack.I lost 1/2 to 3/4 of a gallon thru the blow off.

Pitching 2 packs you will probally have 1/2 to 3/4 gallons left after the first day!!

**crazyseany** · 02-20-2012, 08:19 PM

You guys have me worried! I brewed this on 1/1 and haven't looked at it...

My daughter said it was bubbling during the first week but didn't have any blow off...

5.5 gallons in 6.5 gallon bucket