Porter

[huntsy]

hi,
anyone have recepie for a james squire porter or close to.
huntsy

 

[Tony]

do you want to make it from a kit or do you want to make a really nice beer by steping some chocolate and black malt and hopping some extract yourself?

cheers

 

[mika]

Here's one I made, took a while to mellow out. I'd definitely add a bunch of hops to it (tettnanger) to try and get some spicyness into it.
It's a nice beer (still haven't drunk it all), just didn't taste as complex as I think a Porter should.

Linky

 

[Slurpdog]

do you want to make it from a kit or do you want to make a really nice beer by steping some chocolate and black malt and hopping some extract yourself?

cheers

Bring it on Tony. I'll have a crack.

 

[Tyred]

Brewcraft has the following

JAMES SQUIRE PORTER
2 cans Malt Shovel Deep Roast Ale
SaflagerS-23
250g chocolate grain
15g Fuggles hops
21 litres

I assume that a steep of 20 -30 minutes for the chocolate grain and a 5 minute boil for the fuggles would be required.

I haven't made this one so I'm not sure what it would be like.

 

[Tony]

Now thats what i like to hear. people willing to have a go

here is what i recon would be a great porter and close to JSP. JS say they use Roast barly in theirs but im a traditionalist and prefer a touch of black malt with choc and crystal for a proper porter!
this is made with 2 x 1.5kg cans of coopers un hopped light malt extract, a touch of dextrose to up the gravity to 1.050 (use some dry malt if you want, doesnt matter) and steep some cracked crystal, chocolate and black malt.

porter

A ProMash Recipe Report

Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (L): 23.00 Wort Size (L): 23.00
Total Extract (kg): 3.75
Anticipated OG: 1.050 Plato: 12.32
Anticipated EBC: 48.2
Anticipated IBU: 32.6
Wort Boil Time: 60 Minutes


Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential EBC
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80.0 3.00 kg. Coopers LME - Light Australia 1.038 7
6.7 0.25 kg. TF Chocolate Malt UK 1.033 800
6.7 0.25 kg. TF Crystal UK 1.034 140
5.3 0.20 kg. Corn Sugar Generic 1.046 0
1.3 0.05 kg. TF Black Malt UK 1.033 1300

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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50.00 g. Goldings - E.K. Pellet 5.00 28.1 45 min.
20.00 g. Goldings - E.K. Pellet 5.00 4.4 10 min.


Yeast
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DCL Yeast S-04 SafAle English Ale






the night before you brew, take the cracked crystal, chocolate and black malt and put it in with 1.5 to 2 liters of water at about 60 or 70 deg in a small pot and put the lid on. hot tap water is fine. leave this to cool down and steep over night.
give it a stir a few times...... you wont be able to resist playing with it..... trust me.

the next day, get a big pot at around the 18 to 20 liter volume ($20 bucks at big W) and disolve one of the cans of malt into about 12 to 14 liters of hot water. this will give you a gravity of between 1.035 and 1.040 which is perfect for boiling hops in.
once its all disolved and none is stuck on the bottom (it will burn and taste yucky) plonk it on the stove or a gas ring burner and bring to the boil.

once boiling add the bittering hops and boil them for 45 min as per the recipe.

with 10 minuites left to go, add the flavour/aroma hops and strain in the liquid from the steeped specialty grains. just strain them with a fine kitchen strainer and dont rinse them with hot water, you will just extract tannins!

when its done, turn off the heat, disolve in the other can of extract and the dextrose.

remove from the stove and plonk it in the laundry tub or bath tub and surround with cold water to cool it.

Note: dont boil with the lid on or cool with the lid on. trust me, thats another story.

ok the sticky dark wort is cool....... just pour it in the firmenter and top up to 23 liters with tap water.

too easy.

get a hop sock from ross if you want to get the hops out easily.

firment it with SO-4 or a good english liquid strain at 20 to22 deg for a bit of fruity complexity.

yweast 1318 or 1098 are great.

cheers

 

[ernie]

Nice one Tony. Is that what you would call an extract recipe?

 

[huntsy]

do you want to make it from a kit or do you want to make a really nice beer by steping some chocolate and black malt and hopping some extract yourself?

cheers

hi Tony,
I would like to make a real nice beer have not done mashing yet but like to have a go,
at steeping some chocolate and black maltand hopping, if you have a recepie thanks.

huntsy
ps not too hoppy if you dont mid,

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Basically, what Tony has described as what you get from Grumpy's with their master brews, wich is taking a can of goo and adding steeped grains to add flavour.

Thats how started, now I have been bitten by the dark side :chug:

 

[RobboMC]

If you want a short cut to decent Porter look at the Morgans Master Blend cans. I made one with a can of Dark Crystal and a can of Caramalt ( with some suitably added hops of choice ) added to a Dark Ale kit and it turned out a really lovely beer. I was trying to make a Tooyees Old clone as I used to drink nothing but years ago and this simple recipe exceeded all expectations.

The dark side certainly has it's rewards. The new Muntons Dockside Porter kit is pretty good too, but a touch expensive. I made it as is ( 2 cans supplied, no brewing sugar ) but adding a can of extract wouldn't hurt it at all (IMHO).

 

[oneills]

Try The Country Brewers Old Porter Wetpak 3kg with 25g of Fuggles dry hopped. This kit has dark and crystal grains that have to be steeped, yeast and hops. Rack into secondary after a week and it is a great beer for a kit.