any thoughts about this porter recipe?

I was thinking about doing a porter recipe for my first time ever trying one.

How does this sound?

Grains
8#-2row
2#-crystal malt maybe 40L?
.5#-chocolate

Hops
I have some cascade, nugget on hand

yeast
safale 05 or 04

any suggestions would be appreciated

kjones said:

I was thinking about doing a porter recipe for my first time ever trying one.

How does this sound?

Grains
8#-2row
2#-crystal malt maybe 40L?
.5#-chocolate

Hops
I have some cascade, nugget on hand

yeast
safale 05 or 04

any suggestions would be appreciated

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Less crystal and more chocolate/dark malt would be an improvement IMO. You would want about 10% dark malt to make an appropriately dark porter. That would be 1 to 1.25 lbs for your recipe so maybe a pound of chocolate and 1/4 lb of Carafa II or black patent malt. I would keep the crystal malt to 5-10% or 1/2 to 1.25 lbs here. For a little complexity you could make part of that some darker crystal like British 120L, CaraAroma or Special B. Bitter with the Nugget to an IBU # that's 2/3 of your OG and add a touch of the Cascade in the middle and end of boil for a little flavor & aroma.

8.5 lbs pale malt
1 lb chocolate malt
.25 lb Carafa II
.50 lb medium crystal
.25 lb dark crystal

looks pretty good to me, i just made a very very similar recipe same amount of 2 row and chocolate malt. and cascade hops but i also used williamette as well turned out pretty good.

+1 on the Special B - seriously yummy in small quantities (0.25 lb).