Hi Ed,
Not sure if your still watching this thread, but I was going to try brewing this thursday. i was picking up a couple of grains I needed for it at the LHBS and i showed the recipe, and the guy suggested to add a Lb of Special B Grain, what do you think ?? Also, do you think it would hurt to pitch this on a BEE Cave Amber Ale yeast cake ?? i'm ready to transfer my latest batch of that on thursday. thanks
Sounds interesting, but it would be a different beer. It probably would be good, but then again, it would not be a BCB Robust Porter.
One of the great things about homebrewing is tweaking recipes. If you have a good one to start with, you can try different things, but you will never know if you don't start with the baseline to begin with.
Good luck, but I would not add any Special B to it and I would not pitch on a yeast cake of your Amber beer (I don't have a BCB Amber Ale recipe).
Brewed a variation of this last thursday and its probably almst done fermenting. I wanted to use pale chocolate so i replaced the chocolate with the pale chocolate and added 1/4 lb of carafa III special to make up for the color difference. Also used half 2 row and half maris otter and bittered with columbus to 40 ibus.
5.50 lb Maris Otter (Crisp) (4.0 SRM) Grain 39.01 %
5.50 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 39.01 %
1.00 lb Caramel Malt - 40L (Briess) (40.0 SRM) Grain 7.09 %
1.00 lb Chocolate (Crisp) (250.0 SRM) Grain 7.09 %
0.50 lb Oats, Flaked (Briess) (1.4 SRM) Grain 3.55 %
0.25 lb Black (Patent) Malt (500.0 SRM) Grain 1.77 %
0.25 lb Carafa III (525.0 SRM) Grain 1.77 %
0.10 lb Roasted Barley (Briess) (300.0 SRM) Grain 0.71 %
1.25 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [11.50 %] (60 min) Hops 41.1 IBU
Just wanted to post back on the recipe changes i used. Using the MO and the pale chocolate probably made this quite different than the original but it has still gone over well and it is very easy to drink. At last weeks homebrew meeting, it went over pretty well and a couple people really enjoyed it. I am already thinking about brewing this again after I realized how much is gone already. On the next batch I may do regular chocolate malt but with all MO. I used columbus because it is just what have been trying to use up but at just a 60 minute addition it probably doesnt matter too much which hop is used.
Well I realized that I was drinking this much faster than my other 2 beers on tap so I thought I better brew it again before I run out. I changed the recipe a bit this time too, but it is actually closer to the original than my first one. I used all maris otter this time instead of 2 row but all other grains were the same. I bittered to 40 ibu with centennial and I am fermenting with nottingham. I realized I forgot the maltodextrin with about 2 minutes left. I grabbed it quickly from my storage and quickly stirred it in and let it boil for 5 extra minute. So I had a 65 minute boil.
Other than forgetting the maltodextrin til the end which wasnt a big deal to me, this batch was the smoothest all grain yet and got my highest efficiency yet. I hit about 76-77% with a gravity of 1.071 and a full 5.5 gallons. My mash start at 150.5 according to my brand new thermapen and finished at 149.5 also.
Hi,
I am going to be brewing this! I was wondering how many 11g packets of the Nottingham yeast people have been using? The recipe calls for 1 but mrmalty.com says 1.5 ish any thoughts? Or just pitch 2 just to be safe?
I had an explosive fermentation with 1 packet. In fact, I have never pitched more than one sachet of yeast in a brew except for when I had a packet of recalled Nottingham that didn't rehydrate. You should be fine with 1.
I wanna brew a peanut butter chocolate porter would this recipe be a good base?
This beer has an awesome chocolate/roasty flavor (I've brewed it ~5 times now). I think adding peanut butter would be pretty cool!
Could someone give me a partial mash version?
knappster said:Here's the link to the partial mash recipe I used:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f126/bee-cave-brewery-robust-porter-56768-post2308551/?highlight=partial+mash#post2308551
Just brewed this again. Mmmmm. Here's a twist, and I know it's blasphemy to even consider messing with EdWort's drink... add a little splash of Kahlua and serve in a snifter for an after dinner drink. I call it a "Mexican Car Bomb"
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