RecipeDB - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Porter

[Acasta]

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Porter

Porter - Sweet Stout
All Grain

4 Votes

Brewer's Notes

Bakers Choc = Lindt 85% dark @15min in boil

Cocoa @ 15min boil
Coffee beans = Vanilla beans [2 sliced and added to primary]

Could add more vanilla beans and/or vanilla EXTRACT to secondary to get a pronounced flavour, however the subtle flavour from the 2 beans was great.

Malt & Fermentables

%	KG	Fermentable
	3.8 kg	JWM Traditional Ale Malt
	0.7 kg	TF Brown Malt
	0.5 kg	JWM Dark Crystal
	0.3 kg	JWM Chocolate Malt

Hops

Time	Grams	Variety	Form	AA
	30 g	Goldings, East Kent (Pellet, 5.0AA%, 40mins)
	20 g	Target (Pellet, 11.0AA%, 60mins)

Misc

	150 g	Unsweetened cocoa
	100 g	Unsweetened baker's chocolate
	2 g	Coffee Beans

20L Batch Size

Brew Details

• Original Gravity 1.057 (calc)
• Final Gravity 1.018 (calc)
• Bitterness 42.9 IBU
• Efficiency 70%
• Alcohol 5.05%
• Colour 72 EBC
• Batch Size 20L

Fermentation

• Primary 7 days
• Secondary 7 days
• Conditioning 4 days

 

[felten]

looks good, how was it compared to temptress?

 

[Steve@PMF82]

Does look good, i :icon_drool2: temptress so have been thinking about doing something like this for winter.

So how does it stack up?

 

[Acasta]

I never did a side by side, however I have recieved good reviews from a friend who loves temptress. This isn't a clone recipe, but more a similar ingredients beer.

I don't have great mash control yet, and I think I may have mashed a bit low, also I used S-04. I'm planning my next batch to mash higher (around 69), less choc malt and more dark crystal keeping the colour (could go lighter as this is quite dark) and using a good quality english yeast to give it a fuller, slightly sweeter mouth feel and taste.

I reached FG on the 4/8/11 I'm drinking some as I type. Since first kegging its really developed as alot of darker beers do. Chocolate has always been present but over time the flavours have smoothed out vanilla came though really nicely. I would also recommend an extra vanilla bean or two depending on how much you like the vanilla taste or you can use vanilla extract (not essence)