GuitarGumption
Well-Known Member
I had a funny and interesting brew day yesterday after getting off work early, and realizing I had time to do a brew. I quickly searched up a winter porter recipe, ran to the brewstore for some grains and wlp007, assumed I had good enough hops at home, and went for it. Here's the recipe, based on a Crafty Gremlyn Brewing kit recipe I found:
for 5.5 gallons:
10 lbs. Marris Otter
.75 lbs. chocolate dark
.5 crystal 80
.25 quaker oats
.25 black patent (actually half of this was carafa II)
.25 flaked wheat
I don't have a scale, so the hop amounts are extremely approximate:
FWH: 1 oz. total of sterling/chinook/simcoe leftovers
15 min: 1 oz. total (I think) of simcoe and amarillo
yeast: wlp007 (loved this yeast in my ipa)
spices: 1/4 tsp each of cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg,
mashed at 157 (hoping this will prevent the wlp007 from drying it out completely)
I had a limited time to brew, so I had to cut my mash time to 45 minutes, and also my boil to 45 minutes. I did it indoors so my rolling boil was not as aggressive as usual, so I ended up with too much liquid. So I threw in some brown sugar just for fun, and to make up for the surely bad efficiency I was headed for.
In the end, some yummy dark liquid resulted, and my OG was 1.052 (bad efficiency, but still good range for a porter I think). It will be interesting to see how it turns out!
for 5.5 gallons:
10 lbs. Marris Otter
.75 lbs. chocolate dark
.5 crystal 80
.25 quaker oats
.25 black patent (actually half of this was carafa II)
.25 flaked wheat
I don't have a scale, so the hop amounts are extremely approximate:
FWH: 1 oz. total of sterling/chinook/simcoe leftovers
15 min: 1 oz. total (I think) of simcoe and amarillo
yeast: wlp007 (loved this yeast in my ipa)
spices: 1/4 tsp each of cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg,
mashed at 157 (hoping this will prevent the wlp007 from drying it out completely)
I had a limited time to brew, so I had to cut my mash time to 45 minutes, and also my boil to 45 minutes. I did it indoors so my rolling boil was not as aggressive as usual, so I ended up with too much liquid. So I threw in some brown sugar just for fun, and to make up for the surely bad efficiency I was headed for.
In the end, some yummy dark liquid resulted, and my OG was 1.052 (bad efficiency, but still good range for a porter I think). It will be interesting to see how it turns out!