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- Sep 4, 2017
- Messages
- 1,449
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- Recipe Type
- All Grain
- Yeast
- Omega #OYL-211 Bit O' Funk
- Yeast Starter
- 1 Liter
- Batch Size (Gallons)
- 5.5
- Original Gravity
- 1.066
- Final Gravity
- 1.010
- Boiling Time (Minutes)
- 120
- IBU
- 77
- Color
- 40
- Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
- 10 days @ 65°F
- Tasting Notes
- 41/50 total score from local competition
1890 Truman Porter
The last competition I entered was over a decade ago... probably longer. It was a Foreign Export Stout which received nothing but positive comments at our local club meeting so I entered it in a state competition. The results were the polar opposite from my club experience. It should be noted that I had just joined this club so these were not buddies or people I even really knew at the time and two of them were BJCP judges. So I got discouraged and stopped entering competitions. This past December I had a few bottles of a porter I had made and packaged up for a family reunion. While visiting my LHBS I saw they had their quarterly comp about to start and the theme this quarter was dark beers so I dropped off my last two bottles. Today I got the score sheet back and am pretty happy about the results... 41/50 total score.
The recipe is from Ron Pattinson and was taken from the 1890 Truman Brewery log books. I brewed it in May and bottled a few dozen off my keezer tap using a TapCooler counter pressure bottle filler for the family reunion. Three bottles were left and I stashed them in the back of the fridge and forgot about them until December. Since there was no cost to enter the comp I figured what the hell and dropped off two bottles the day before the submission deadline. Judging was last weekend and I got the results emailed today. I didn't notice much funk from the yeast so next time I will try using the next step up in the Omega brett blend line.
8 lbs 8.0 oz | Chevallier Heritage (Crisp) (3.0 SRM) | Grain | 1 | 68.0 % | 0.66 gal |
1 lbs 4.0 oz | Brown Malt (65.0 SRM) | Grain | 2 | 10.0 % | 0.10 gal |
12.0 oz | BEST Black Malt (BESTMALZ) (609.1 SRM) | Grain | 3 | 6.0 % | 0.06 gal |
2 lbs | Invert Sugar No. 3 [Boil] (70.0 SRM) | Sugar | 4 | 16.0 % | 0.17 gal |
2.00 oz | Fuggle [4.50 %] - Boil 120.0 min | Hop | 5 | 29.3 IBUs | - |
1.50 oz | Fuggle [4.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min | Hop | 6 | 20.5 IBUs | - |
2.00 oz | Hallertauer Mittelfrueh [6.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min | Hop | 7 | 28.0 IBUs | - |
1.00 Items | Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) | Fining | 8 | - | - |
0.00 gal | Chiller (Boil 15.0 mins) | Other | 9 | - | - |
1.25 tsp | Yeast Nutrient (Boil 5.0 mins) | Other | 10 | - | - |
1.0 pkg | Bit O' Funk (Omega #OYL-211) | Yeast | 11 | - | - |
0.50 oz | East Kent Goldings (EKG) [5.00 %] - 3.0 Days Before Bottling for 0.0 Days | Hop | 12 | 0.0 IBUs | - |
The last competition I entered was over a decade ago... probably longer. It was a Foreign Export Stout which received nothing but positive comments at our local club meeting so I entered it in a state competition. The results were the polar opposite from my club experience. It should be noted that I had just joined this club so these were not buddies or people I even really knew at the time and two of them were BJCP judges. So I got discouraged and stopped entering competitions. This past December I had a few bottles of a porter I had made and packaged up for a family reunion. While visiting my LHBS I saw they had their quarterly comp about to start and the theme this quarter was dark beers so I dropped off my last two bottles. Today I got the score sheet back and am pretty happy about the results... 41/50 total score.
The recipe is from Ron Pattinson and was taken from the 1890 Truman Brewery log books. I brewed it in May and bottled a few dozen off my keezer tap using a TapCooler counter pressure bottle filler for the family reunion. Three bottles were left and I stashed them in the back of the fridge and forgot about them until December. Since there was no cost to enter the comp I figured what the hell and dropped off two bottles the day before the submission deadline. Judging was last weekend and I got the results emailed today. I didn't notice much funk from the yeast so next time I will try using the next step up in the Omega brett blend line.
