Mocha Porter

I made this in the summer; I let it sit around and bottle condition for about 4 weeks, the began doling out samples and tastes. I've gotten nothing but positive responses - and more importantly, I enjoyed drinking the beer.

My Mocha Porter:

5 gal. batch




9 lb. Amber LME
12 oz. Flaked Oats
1 lb. chocolate malt
8 oz. black patent malt
12 oz. crystal 60

1.5 oz. Bullion 1 hr
.5 oz. Wilamette 30 min
.5 oz. Wilamette 5 min

1.5 cup cocoa powder 10 min.
2 vanilla beans primary

Yeast: US-05


Numbers (per Brewtarget)
1.071 OG
1.018 FG
7.0 ABV
28.5 IBUs
50.5 SRM


I primaried for 3 weeks, secondaried for 2 weeks, then bottle conditioned for 4 weeks. I bottled using normal sugar.

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Note that I did not get my target efficiency. My actual OG was 1.065 and my actual FG was 1.022.


But I was pleased with the recipe and had fun making it.

I am very interested in this recipe. Is there any changes you would have done to it? Also, what is your thoughts on instead of vanilla maybe using pecans? Thoughts..