Blonde Porter or Amber Porter

[DylanTO]

So the idea is a rich brown porter, but lighter in colour and hopefully with its own thing going flavour-wise.

I got the idea when I read that amber malt is just a lighter roasted brown malt.

Here's the initial recipe. I'd love some feedback.

60% Maris Otter
20% Flaked barley
10% crystal 40
10% amber malt
+maybe a small amount of brown malt

I'm thinking OG 1.050, FG 1.014
...25IBU from fuggles.

 

[kh54s10]

Looks good to me. I have never tried Fuggles and have read a lot of post about not liking them.

I would say you will have a good beer but technically it would not be a Porter without a certain amount of color.

Actually all malts are different amounts of malting using Barley. So a pale malt is just a lighter amber malt which it just a lighter roasted brown malt. They will produce quite different flavors.

 

[DylanTO]

Haha... I'm aware that all malts are barley unless otherwise specified.
However, amber malt is a British roasted malt, similar in character to brown malt (from what I understand) which have a very different character than say a German malt of the same colour rating, just as a British base malt will have a different character from a Belgian or American one.