endorphines
Active Member
So my brewing buddy and i wanted to make a porter, so we looked through our tub of specialty grains and came up with some ideas. Basicly, we want to make a smoked porter, that's rather potent, with a definite biscuit taste to it. We figure it'd make a great beer for while we're out camping and feel at home in that environment. We wrote up a recipe, and whittled down the base malt every time we added a specialty malt. Eventually, we found that we had no base malt left.
Here's my question, I looked up the diastatic power of all of the grains below, and they are very low for the most part. I'm worried that this grain bill will not self convert during the mash. Is that a concern? or am I over thinking this? We wanted it big bodied, so i was thinking 156 for 60, but if it will have issues converting, should we stretch that to 90?
Feel free to critique it on it's other aspects too if you wish.
Camp Fire Porter
Baltic Porter
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.00 gal Brewer:
Boil Size: 7.48 gal
Boil Time: 90 min
End of Boil Volume 5.98 gal
Est Original Gravity: 1.072 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.021 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.8 %
Bitterness: 57.9 IBUs Calories: 34.4 kcal/12oz
Est Color: 40.6 SRM
Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
4 lbs Smoked Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 1 25.0 %
2 lbs Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 2 12.5 %
2 lbs Brown Malt (65.0 SRM) Grain 3 12.5 %
2 lbs Carafoam (2.0 SRM) Grain 4 12.5 %
2 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (120.0 SRM) Grain 5 12.5 %
2 lbs Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 6 12.5 %
1 lbs Melanoiden Malt (20.0 SRM) Grain 7 6.3 %
8.0 oz Chocolate Malt (450.0 SRM) Grain 8 3.1 %
8.0 oz Rye Malt (4.7 SRM) Grain 9 3.1 %
0.75 oz Simcoe [10.00 %] - First Wort 90.0 min Hop 10 27.6 IBUs
0.50 oz Northern Brewer [8.50 %] - Boil 90.0 min Hop 11 14.2 IBUs
0.50 oz Northern Brewer [8.50 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 12 10.2 IBUs
0.50 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 13 1.4 IBUs
0.50 oz Northern Brewer [8.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 14 2.7 IBUs
0.50 oz Willamette [5.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 15 1.7 IBUs
Here's my question, I looked up the diastatic power of all of the grains below, and they are very low for the most part. I'm worried that this grain bill will not self convert during the mash. Is that a concern? or am I over thinking this? We wanted it big bodied, so i was thinking 156 for 60, but if it will have issues converting, should we stretch that to 90?
Feel free to critique it on it's other aspects too if you wish.
Camp Fire Porter
Baltic Porter
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.00 gal Brewer:
Boil Size: 7.48 gal
Boil Time: 90 min
End of Boil Volume 5.98 gal
Est Original Gravity: 1.072 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.021 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.8 %
Bitterness: 57.9 IBUs Calories: 34.4 kcal/12oz
Est Color: 40.6 SRM
Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
4 lbs Smoked Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 1 25.0 %
2 lbs Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 2 12.5 %
2 lbs Brown Malt (65.0 SRM) Grain 3 12.5 %
2 lbs Carafoam (2.0 SRM) Grain 4 12.5 %
2 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (120.0 SRM) Grain 5 12.5 %
2 lbs Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 6 12.5 %
1 lbs Melanoiden Malt (20.0 SRM) Grain 7 6.3 %
8.0 oz Chocolate Malt (450.0 SRM) Grain 8 3.1 %
8.0 oz Rye Malt (4.7 SRM) Grain 9 3.1 %
0.75 oz Simcoe [10.00 %] - First Wort 90.0 min Hop 10 27.6 IBUs
0.50 oz Northern Brewer [8.50 %] - Boil 90.0 min Hop 11 14.2 IBUs
0.50 oz Northern Brewer [8.50 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 12 10.2 IBUs
0.50 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 13 1.4 IBUs
0.50 oz Northern Brewer [8.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 14 2.7 IBUs
0.50 oz Willamette [5.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 15 1.7 IBUs
