Additions to porter post primary. Need some ideas.

[msa8967]

Ended up brewing 10 gallons of porter instead of just 5. I kegged 5 gallons of lower gravity (1.052) and still have the higher gravity portion (1.066) left in the primary at the end of week 3. I plan to transfer to a secondary and wanted to ask if anyone had suggestions of something I could add to make this second batch stand out a bit more. Adding vanilla bean(s), oak soaked in bourbon....just not sure what to do.

 

[lumpher]

I also have 10 gallons of porter fermenting(mine is a smoked robust porter). I'm going to make mine 5 gallons of Oaked and Smoked, and the other 5 will be Bourbon Vanilla Smoked.

 

[CJ-3]

My vote is to do both.

2 ounces of oak chips soaked in 8 ounces of bourbon with 2 vanilla beans scraped and cut.

Let the oak soak in the bourbon and vanilla for 2 weeks and add the entire lot to the porter. Taste after a few days and then every day until you get the oak level you are looking for.

 

[Dolomieu]

I recently cold brewed a half pound of my sister in-law's favorite coffee from a local roaster. It turned out really well. I had them do a coarse crush then took my cold crashed porter (5gal of a 10gal batch) and put it right on the coffee. The coffee was in a stainless dry hopper. It took longer to carb up but its like a black cup of coffee Porter. Creamy and delicious.

 

[ong]

All the vanilla stouts and porters I've had are really pretty gross, and I like vanilla. Something just off about the combo for me. I've gone coffee, which is good; cacao, which I also liked; and most recently I racked 3 gallons of barrel aged imperial stout onto a 750ml bottle of homemade raspberry wine, which I think will be really nice (but is way too hot at the moment).

 

[Gman1954]

Pecan Coffee extract made using Bourbon is what I'm adding to a stout for my daughters wedding! Extraction uses my ISI whip cream charger. We tried that in Porter too. Works well with Cacao beans too. btw Did not work with well with PB2 dry defatted peanut butter.. had to add that to the keg