So I've got some ingredients hanging around that I want to combine into an extract porter of some sort. I've only brewed from kits before so sort of in the dark when it comes to recipe formulation and I'm looking for a little advice. Here are the ingredients I have to work with:
8 lbs. amber lme
1 oz. fuggles pellets
1 oz kent goldings pellets
1 lb. precrushed chocolate grain
1 lb. precrushed debittered black malt
1 packet wyeast london ale
Any great ideas? I know I want to use the full 8 pounds of amber lme for sure since that is not getting any younger, but as far as how much chocolate or debittered black malt to throw in with it I'm not so sure. I'm looking for something roasty and dark but hopefully not too astringent or overly hoppy. Fuller's london porter comes to mind as a commercial example. So yeah any advice on deciding how much of the grains to use would be much appreciated.Tempted to throw caution to the wind and just chuck the whole 2 pounds and see what happens but have heard that too much black malt in particular can really ruin a brew.
8 lbs. amber lme
1 oz. fuggles pellets
1 oz kent goldings pellets
1 lb. precrushed chocolate grain
1 lb. precrushed debittered black malt
1 packet wyeast london ale
Any great ideas? I know I want to use the full 8 pounds of amber lme for sure since that is not getting any younger, but as far as how much chocolate or debittered black malt to throw in with it I'm not so sure. I'm looking for something roasty and dark but hopefully not too astringent or overly hoppy. Fuller's london porter comes to mind as a commercial example. So yeah any advice on deciding how much of the grains to use would be much appreciated.Tempted to throw caution to the wind and just chuck the whole 2 pounds and see what happens but have heard that too much black malt in particular can really ruin a brew.