RecipeDB - Chocolate Porter

[peas_and_corn]

Chocolate Porter

Porter - American Amber Ale
All Grain

Brewer's Notes

This brew included chocolate at two points- a pack of Coles dark cooking chocolate in the boil at 60 mins (gets rid of pesky oils) and choc extract, added into secondary. I used a smack pack of the yeast... not sure how many mL that's supposed to be.

Malt & Fermentables

%	KG	Fermentable
	6 kg	JWM Traditional Ale Malt
	5 kg	JWM Light Munich
	0.8 kg	Weyermann Carapils(Carafoam)
	0.5 kg	JWM Chocolate Malt
	0.1 kg	JWM Roast Barley

Hops

Time	Grams	Variety	Form	AA
	40 g	Amarillo Gold (Pellet, 8.5AA%, 60mins)
	30 g	Williamette (Pellet, 5.5AA%, 5mins)
	20 g	Williamette (Pellet, 5.5AA%, 15mins)
	20 g	Williamette (Pellet, 5.5AA%, 30mins)
	20 g	Chinook (Pellet, 13.0AA%, 10mins)

Yeast

50 ml

Wyeast Labs 1056 - American Ale

44L Batch Size

Brew Details

• Original Gravity 1.067 (calc)
• Final Gravity 1.017 (calc)
• Bitterness 31.3 IBU
• Efficiency 75%
• Alcohol 6.51%
• Colour 51 EBC
• Batch Size 44L

Fermentation

• Primary 14 days
• Secondary 14 days
• Conditioning 5 days

 

[drsmurto]

Bought myself some 85% dark chocolate for a crack and youngs double choc stout and some essence.

Hoping you bring a bottle or 2 along to the swap.....

1 smack pack for 44L , I know 1056 is atough little ******* but 44L of 1.067 will have tested it muscles for sure! No starter?

 

[peas_and_corn]

I'm a lazy man, and haven't made starters since going to 44L, with mixed results- generally no problems, though. I will be bringing some bottles along to the swap, as it's both on tap and in bottles- though the bottle ones have more choc flavour than the tap one- this could be because in secondary the beer was in two vessels, and I guessed how to divide the essence in half, and most likely got it wrong.

 

[drsmurto]

Have you tasted Youngs Double Choc Stout?

A desert beer if ever there was one!

Looking forward to it mate. Drooling already.....

 

[Kleiny]

Drinking my chocolate prorter right as i type
vey similar malt profile just with Fuggles and Goldings for hop addition
the wife loves it and its a great full mouth feel, choco hit

 

[peas_and_corn]

I haven't tried it yet, but I took a few hints on how to do it from a clone of that beer in BYO- plus a few tips from GMK, who suggested the cooking chocolate in the boil. There's a long list of beers on my 'to try' list, and Young's is there, especially since there are so many good reviews for it!

 

[bindi]

Drinking my "Blow it out your rum and raisin" beer as I type, made with, well <_< Rum and raisin chocolate, nice

Back on topic: I have everything except the carapil for this recipe, what else could I use [thinking a little wheat may work] instead?

 

[peas_and_corn]

Some light crystal might do the trick- though I haven't substituted for this grain before.

 

[MVZOOM]

I was at MHB in Nth Syd buying grain for a choc stout. It's finishing it's boil in two mins...... recipe to follow! I reckon it's more of a chock porter anyway!

Cheers - Mike