Recent content by GothGargoyle

Thanks for the feedback. I was quite disappointed with Rogue Mocha Porter so I'm not really interested in the clone recipe. Also, I'm making a deliberate effort these days to come up with my own recipes from scratch. That way I feel I'll learn a lot more (especially when the recipe doesn't...

Been thinking a little more about this and I've already decided to change as follows: Remove the Victory malt. The MO should provide enough biscuity character Remove the Chocolate Malt and use a little more Chocolate Rye Use WY1450 rather than 1882 (which isn't available right now) Any...

Hi. I'm working on a Robust Mocha Porter recipe, and I'd like some feedback. I'm not sure whether I have too much going on or if the different elements will combine in harmony. Batch Size (fermenter): 18.93 l Estimated OG: 1.061 SG Estimated Color: 31.1 SRM Estimated IBU: 31.4 IBUs...

Yes please!

Just trying a bottle of mine now. It is a nice slightly cloudy light brown with a pretty good pale head. The ginger has dominated the aroma and the taste a little more than I would have liked, although not quite as much when it warms up a little. Definitely best drunk at about 10-15C (50-60F)...

So I just bottled mine - final gravity was 1.007 which means the ABV is ~8.3%. It settles and cleared considerably in secondary and is now a nice golden brown colour. There's a lot of ginger in the aroma but it is fairly subtle in the taste. The vanilla and phenols from the yeast come through...

Made a variation of this a couple of weeks ago, currently sitting it secondary - will be bottling in the next day or so. Batch Size: 5 Gallon Boil Time: 60 minutes Brewhouse efficiency: 70% Ingredients: 9 lbs 8.0 oz Pilsner (2 Row) Bel (2.0 SRM) 73.1 % 8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L...

Just did my second brew using this method. I'm using 2 x 5G pots because that's what my stove can handle. The first brew had a pretty lousy efficiency of 46%, mainly because of a small sparge volume. Trying to dunk the grain bag into the 5G pot for a sparge didn't work out - I had to remove...