carnevoodoo
Well-Known Member
Hi all. I'm new here. A couple of weeks ago I was on vacation and I decided to take the plunge into homebrewing. So I went down to my local homebrew store (http://www.homebrewmart.com/ and I think I am lucky to live near such a great store!) and got one of the kits with all the stuff I needed, etc.
They gave me the ingredients I needed to make my first beer and I chose an English porter. It is an extract brew, Munton's Dark extract with 1.5 ounces of hops and .5 at the end of boil, and all seemed to go well.
Now, I am pretty used to the porters around here. Ballast Point and Alesmith and stone all make porters and they're all dark. Almost black. My porter is very much a deep reddish brown.
Now, I don't know much about English porters. I am just used to American ones. I measured the gravity and I'm at about 4.3% right now, so it is actually beer and it smells and even tastes like beer, but is it a porter? If not, what is it?
Thanks!
They gave me the ingredients I needed to make my first beer and I chose an English porter. It is an extract brew, Munton's Dark extract with 1.5 ounces of hops and .5 at the end of boil, and all seemed to go well.
Now, I am pretty used to the porters around here. Ballast Point and Alesmith and stone all make porters and they're all dark. Almost black. My porter is very much a deep reddish brown.
Now, I don't know much about English porters. I am just used to American ones. I measured the gravity and I'm at about 4.3% right now, so it is actually beer and it smells and even tastes like beer, but is it a porter? If not, what is it?
Thanks!