American Porter Edmund Fitzgerald Clone (AG)

[bonecitybrewco]

Officially bottled Thursday. Cracked a bottle yesterday because I am extremely impatient and although nowhere near ready carbonation-wise, this is incredible. The mouthfeel, the smoothness. Everything about this is amazing. 2lbs of pb2 and 2 oz of vanilla extract....it's just outstanding. Cannot wait for this to finish carbonating and conditioning. This beer REALLY lends itself well to additives.

 

[ChocolateMaltyBalls]

This beer REALLY lends itself well to additives.

I agree, I'm finishing up a keg right now. Next time I'm going to put a split vanilla bean in the keg.

 

[bonecitybrewco]

I agree, I'm finishing up a keg right now. Next time I'm going to put a split vanilla bean in the keg.

I added 1 oz of extract to secondary and 1 oz at bottling. The oz at bottling seems to have smoothed it out just a bit more. I imagine at kegging it would do the same.

 

[ThinBrewLine]

I was looking to make a new porter this weekend and stumbled upon this. Sounds good (I never had a commercially made EF). What really made me want to make it is actually kind of funny-
My now 89 year old Dad was the lead insurance underwriter for the policy on the Edmund Fitzgerald while working for AIG in NYC.
Secondly, my brother is an attorney specializing in maritime law.......

 

[Mojzis]

It's a very good beer if you can get your hands on it. Available just about everywhere on the east coast

 

[Sailingeric]

Just got carbed on my keg and yum! Solid porter!

 

[Garmoni]

I'm going to brew this tomorrow. I have 05, 04, and Nottingham yeast on hand. Any recommendation on which one I should use?

 

[Shenanigans]

Does this need to be bulk aged or can I just fill it straight into bottles and let it mature there?
I guess as it's only an OG of 1.060 it shouldn't need too long to mature?

 

[giorgio-alemani]

...

 

[giorgio-alemani]

..,

 

[giorgio-alemani]

Brewed 5 gallons last weekend. Decided to take it in a different direction just for fun. (Used roasted barley instead of black malt, Crystal 80 instead of Crystal 60 and the last addition was Cascade instead of Willamette as GLBC has updated ingredients on website) Mashed at 152 and fermented with S04 at a little higher temperature. There is a lovely english-y toffee/dark fruit character on the nose. It's different for a robust porter but it's fantastic. It fermented out in 3 days flat and so yesterday I added 2lbs of PB2. Adding 1 oz of super good quality vanilla extract today. I'm gonna let that sit for 7 days and then bottle with a little more vanilla extract if needed. There's a lot going on with this beer. I believe it's related to the Special B. Ohiobrewtus this is an extremely good beer on it's own. It's also a dang fine base beer to experiment with. I love it. Thank you.

The GLBC website no longer lists the hops for EF. What was your final hop schedule and do you recommend it?

 

[bonecitybrewco]

The GLBC website no longer lists the hops for EF. What was your final hop schedule and do you recommend it?

My final hop schedule was as follows:

1 oz Northern Brewer 60 min
1 oz Willamette 15 min
1 oz Cascade Flameout

Not sure that the Cascade or Willamette really did much for mine because of the malt complexity combined with the peanut butter and vanilla but if you go stock recipe, this should turn out well.

Those were the hops listed. I only went with what made sense in terms of hopping schedule for those specific hops. I'm sure you could swap the Willamette and Cascade too.

 

[HowlingHog]

Ok. Any Thoughts?

Excited to be brewing a version of this for a 20 gallon batch. No Special B, so I'm throwing in Brown & C-80 (highest Crystal I have).

43 lbs 2-Row
2 lbs C-60
2 lbs Choc.
1 lb Brown
1lb C-80
1 lb Black.

Will also sub Fuggles for Willamette, as it's what I have on hand and the LHBS is 2 hrs. away.
4 Pkgs. SF-05

 

[burntchef]

EF not available in DE. We used to pay friends to bring it back from trips. I am firing this up after lunch today using recipe on first page. I am pitching sloppy slurry wlp007 from my brown porter from 2 weeks ago.
Eric