Recipe Help : Robust Porter

[jefin]

Hi All

First post so hope i'm doing this right. Have been brewing BIAB for the last few years and thanks to this site have made a fair few good brew's .

I plan to go to the dark side this weekend with a nice Robust Porter. Haven't made anything like this in the past so any help/tips on tweaking the recipe would be great. Is formualted from what I have on hand.

House Porter
Robust Porter

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 28.0
Total Grain (kg): 7.900
Total Hops (g): 95.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.064 (°P): 15.7
Final Gravity (FG): 1.016 (°P): 4.1
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 6.29 %
Colour (SRM): 42.2 (EBC): 83.1
Bitterness (IBU): 26.2 (Average)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 75
Boil Time (Minutes): 90

Grain Bill
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6.300 kg Pilsner (79.75%)
0.500 kg Chocolate Malt - (Thomas Fawcett) (6.33%)
0.500 kg Crystal Medium - (Thomas Fawcett) (6.33%)
0.300 kg Amber Malt - (Thomas Fawcett) (3.8%)
0.200 kg Flaked Oats (2.53%)
0.100 kg Black Malt - (Thomas Fawcett) (1.27%)

Hop Bill
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25.0 g Palisade Pellet (7.3% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (0.9 g/L)
30.0 g Palisade Pellet (7.3% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (1.1 g/L)
20.0 g Amarillo Pellet (10.4% Alpha) @ 2 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)
20.0 g Cascade Pellet (5.4% Alpha) @ 2 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)

Misc Bill
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1.0 g Whirlfloc Tablet @ 15 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 67°C for 90 Minutes.
Fermented at 18°C with Safale US-05


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Going with the Pilsner due to being out of Pale Malt & haven't played with the water chemistry yet (any water profile suggestions would be good also).

Any tips would be great.

Cheers Jefin

 

[Phoney]

Looks good. Might be a little bit dark / roasty for a porter, but thats just a guess without crunching the numbers. I'm sure it'll be tasty

 

[Liam_snorkel]

are you aiming for an actual robust porter, or just want something dark & tasty?

IMO drop back the black malt til you hit around 50-60 EBC. 83 is going to look quite black.

 

[jefin]

Thanks for the reply Guy's

I'm not too concerned about hitting the style so colour isn't an issue, am just looking for a tasty brew. I love a roasty beer but if the 100g of black malt will be overkill I will roll it back a bit.

Might back it off to 50g??

Cheers Jefin