American-style Porter

[NeilArge]

Hey all

I'm looking at putting down a US-style porter (something like Sierra Nevada Porter, or Anchor Porter) soon and wouldn't mind some feedback on the recipe below, if you please. Is it balanced enough (at all?)? Any advice greatly appreciated.

Cheers

ToG

Recipe: Salisbury Waters Porter
Brewer: Neil
Asst Brewer:
Style: Robust Porter
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 22.00 L
Boil Size: 25.18 L
Estimated OG: 1.047 SG
Estimated Color: 43.6 EBC
Estimated IBU: 38.6 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 79.01 %
0.38 kg Munich, Light (Joe White) (17.7 EBC) Grain 8.58 %
0.30 kg Chocolate Malt (Joe White) (750.6 EBC) Grain 6.77 %
0.25 kg Caramalt (Joe White) (49.3 EBC) Grain 5.64 %
25.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [6.00 %] (60 min) Hops 16.9 IBU
5.00 gm Northern Brewer [8.50 %] (60 min) (First Hops 5.3 IBU
25.00 gm Williamette [5.50 %] (30 min) Hops 11.9 IBU
20.00 gm Williamette [5.50 %] (10 min) Hops 4.5 IBU
1 Pkgs American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056) [Starter Yeast-Ale


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium Body
Total Grain Weight: 4.43 kg
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Single Infusion, Medium Body
Step Time Name Description Step Temp
90 min Mash In Add 11.56 L of water at 73.5 C 67.0 C
10 min Mash Out Add 6.47 L of water at 93.1 C 75.6 C

 

[Dazza_devil]

Was you gonna put any vanilla in it?

 

[NeilArge]

I was gonna play this one fairly straight down the line. But I am planning a Denny's Bourbon Vanilla Porter soon after this.

 

[Dazza_devil]

Looks delicious to me. Sorry I can't offer any advise but I'm curious about your bittering additions. What's your logic behind the 5g of Northern Brewer?

 

[NeilArge]

Looks delicious to me. Sorry I can't offer any advise but I'm curious about your bittering additions. What's your logic behind the 5g of Northern Brewer?

Thanks Boagsy. To be honest, I can't see much sense in 5g of NB FWH. It was a bit of a leftover from mucking around with the recipe. I think that I'll either up it or drop it.

 

[razz]

Looks good ToG. I made the SN Porter this year and loved it. I will do it again in a few weeks/months and I won't change anything.

 

[Dazza_devil]

Just looking on the Sierra Nevada website and I see you have the same hop and malt profile, not considering the NB. If you was to delete the NB you would also have about the same IBU's I reckon. What's your expected FG and alcohol percentage?

 

[NeilArge]

Looks good ToG. I made the SN Porter this year and loved it. I will do it again in a few weeks/months and I won't change anything.

Thanks Razz. After a lot of trawling around I think it was your recipe that had the most influence over what I have posted above - It just looked right.

Cheers

ToG

 

[NeilArge]

Just looking on the Sierra Nevada website and I see you have the same hop and malt profile, not considering the NB. If you was to delete the NB you would also have about the same IBU's I reckon. What's your expected FG and alcohol percentage?

Boagsy

I would be expecting this to finish up at 1.010 with an alcohol level of 4.7%.

ToG

 

[Crunched]

Sorry for the grave-dig, but how did this turn out TunofGrunt?

 

[Luka]

I think Willamette is a good choice. Other good US porters like Deschutes use Cascade as well, but not too late in the boil.