Tilldeath

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Alright so here's the winning recipe for the first ever brew of the month! If you're just catching this give a quick read through the links below to get an idea and feel free to participate in this and all parts of December's brew of the month as well.

1. http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/brew-month-142974/
2. http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/official-brew-month-style-poll-1-a-143082/
3. http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/brew-month-1-porter-recipe-submissions-144540/
4. http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/brew-month-1-recipe-poll-145932/

And the winning recipe.....
I am brewing this beer up this weekend. It is Denny Conn's Bourbon Vanilla Porter. I think this would be a good beer to brew because it is very popular, there is a lot of documentation on it, and there is a lot of room to experiment. The all-grain recipe is available (slight variant) from Brewmaster's Warehouse. I will post the extract version in the next post.

Recipe: Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter
Style: Robust Porter
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Boil Size: 6.74 gal
Estimated OG: 1.078 SG
Estimated Color: 30.8 SRM
Estimated IBU: 34.1 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
11.00 lb Brewers Malt 2-Row (Briess) (1.8 SRM) Grain 64.71 %
2.50 lb Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 14.71 %
1.50 lb Brown Malt (65.0 SRM) Grain 8.82 %
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (120.0 SRM) Grain 5.88 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 2.94 %
1.50 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 2.94 %
0.75 oz Magnum [14.00 %] (60 min) Hops 29.1 IBU
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (10 min) Hops 5.0 IBU
2.00 items Vanilla Bean (Secondary 14.0 days) Misc
1 Pkgs American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056) Yeast-Ale


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge
Total Grain Weight: 17.00 lb
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Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge
Step Time Name Description Step Temp
75 min Mash In Add 21.25 qt of water at 161.4 F 150.0 F


Notes:
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After primary, slit open 2 vanilla beans. Scrape the insides, chop the pods into quarters, add to secondary fermenter, rack beer onto vanilla. Taste periodically for the correct balance.

Rack to bottling bucket and add 1.5-2.5 oz/gal of Maker's Mark (to your taste).

Optionally, you can infuse the bourbon with Oak Chips or Oak Cubes for 7-10 days prior to adding it.

Added 2 oz of pure vanilla extract and 3 oz of Makers Mark (to 2 gal). Recommended bourbon @ 2.5 oz / gal.


EXTRACT VERSION
Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter - Extract Version

This is my best guess at the conversion between All-Grain and Extract. I would recommend doing a Partial Mash with this recipe, however.

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Boil Size: 6.74 gal
Estimated OG: 1.067 SG
Estimated Color: 30.5 SRM
Estimated IBU: 37.1 IBU
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
8.00 lb Extra Light Dry Extract (3.0 SRM) Dry Extract 55.08 %
1.80 lb Amber Liquid Extract (12.5 SRM) Extract 15.25 %
1.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 12.71 %
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (120.0 SRM) Grain 8.47 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 4.24 %
1.50 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 4.24 %
0.75 oz Magnum [14.00 %] (60 min) Hops 31.6 IBU
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (10 min) Hops 5.5 IBU
2.00 items Vanilla Bean (Secondary 14.0 days) Misc
1 Pkgs American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056) Yeast-Ale

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BrewRI

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Recipe looks great, I'm going to be trying the partial mash version this Sunday with my pops so he can get hooked on brewing too. I have a few questions though since I'm still very new to this. First of all

"Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge
Total Grain Weight: 17.00 lb
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Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge
Step Time Name Description Step Temp
75 min Mash In Add 21.25 qt of water at 161.4 F 150.0 F "

I don't 100% understand what this means. Here's the picture in my head, you put all the grains in the bag and you boil them for 75 minutes at 160 in 5.5 gallons of water, then you add the extract in and once it dissolved you get to the hop addition? I'm just having a tough time translating the recipe from the words to the actual steps involved in doing it, I havn't done a partial mash before.

dwarven_stout

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I actually just made this last week, without following that it was going to be the "beer of the month".

This was my first shot at The Pol's no-chill/real wort starter strategy. I ended up using Nottingham on it after my starter crapped out. It's in the secondary with vanilla now.

dwarven_stout

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The second number (150) is the one you're shooting for.
What I do when I partial mash is preheat the oven to 150 (check with a thermometer), then preheat around a gallon and a half of water on the stove to 160. Add the grain bag, cover, and pop it in the stove to let it soak. Meanwhile, start heating up the rest of the water. Give the grains at least 30 minutes to steep, then add them to the pot and proceed as normal.

BrewRI

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Alright, so you just initially want it to be at 160, the second temperature is the desired heat during steeping. Once your done steeping the grains in the original mash I take the grains from that and let them sit in the "Sparge" water which is heated up to 160, then I remove the grains, add the wort from the original mashing pot and then start the hops boil?

Tilldeath

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When the recipe for extract says 8lb dme and 1.5 lb lme that alone is going to kick the og to some where around 1.085 right? So shouldn't this be changed if you're shooting for the of posted in the recipe?? Just wondering before I brew this if the conversion posted for the original all grain is correct...

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eppo

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first, i noticed that a partial mash is recomended, but no partial mash recipe is posted, could someone post a partial mash version?
also, we are aloud to tweak this to make it our own. what are the limits of tweaking? can i use a different yeast if i wanted to?

phatuna

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FYI, with the vanilla beans, it says "scrape the insides". I am pretty sure that you want to add those scrapings to your secondary. I just brewed this and just as I was preparing to rinse the scrapings down the sink, my swmbo caught and corrected me

dunnright00

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Not sure if I'm going to make this by the end of the month, but it's definitely my next brew. Probably early December.

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bhamripper

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When I made this I added 10 oz of Makers to 5 gallons. It tasted the best after 6 months of age.