adding honey to power pack porter?

[alker12]

I am thinking about adding 1.5 lbs of honey at end of boil (5 min) to the Midwest supplies power pack porter kit.

the ingredients are:

6.6 lbs dark malt extract
3.3 lbs light malt extract
4 oz. black patent malt
4 oz. chocolate malt
8 oz. caramel 120L

1.5 oz. Tettnang hops (60 min)
1 oz. Willamette hops (5 min)

for yeast I plan on using 1.5 packets of 11g Nottingham dry ale yeast if anyone has input on this as well is it welcome.

 

[Supurb]

Are you trying to sweeten the porter with the honey or add more alcahol? I believe adding honey will make the beer more dry, add a little flavor and of course more alcahol. I say give it whirl ! Of course this will alter your OG and FG readings so keep that in mind.

 

[n240sxguy]

Subscribed. I'd like to see how this turns out. I just made my own recipe by crossing the Midwest power packed porter and their oatmeal stout. I call it a power packed oatmeal porter. Hoping to brew it in another week or so.

 

[n240sxguy]

Any news on this one?

 

[alker12]

Sorry for taking so long to respond, but I just finished the last few of these beers and they turned out well. It took some aging because there was a very strong alcohol smell and taste at bottling time, but after 2 months or so in the bottle that had subsided and they continued to improve with age.

 

[n240sxguy]

What abv did you end up with on it?


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[alker12]

I ended up around 7.5% I'm not exactly sure because fermentation stalled at 1.022 and didn't move for a couple days so I bottled, but then they ended up way more carbonated then I intended so I let one go flat and took another reading that said 1.016 if I remember correctly, I forgot to write it down. OG was 1.074.

 

[n240sxguy]

Cool


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