Recommendations for a kit porter(ish)

[Maffew]

Hey,

Looking for some recommendations for a kit porter(ish) recipe. Any suggestions?

 

[TheBigD]

These were all copy and pasted from the coopers forum, I've done SteveL's porter and it was delicious

SteveL's Accidental JS Porter Clone:

Revised recipe
1.7Kg English Bitter
300g chocolate grain
250 medium crystal grain
100g roasted barley
200g dark brown sugar
1kg light dry malt
21g Coopers yeast
made to 21 litres


AdamH's Poita Porter:

Revised recipe
1.7Kg English Bitter
300g Choc malt 600
100g Roast Barley
200g Medium Crystal 120
1kg of DME
200g Dark Brown Sugar (either this or molasses)
15g EKG @10mins
15g EKG @flame out
Yeast S04


Ruddager's Very Roasty Porter:

Original post
1.7kg English Bitter
1.5kg Coopers light LME
200g Pale chocolate malt (~600)
150g Roast barley (~1300)
150g Light Crystal (~60)
200g Brown sugar
30g Fuggles @10
Nottingham yeast

Cooper's “Robo Choc” recipe of the month from July, 2014 …




Recipe
1.7kg English Bitter
1.5kg amber liquid malt extract
250g white sugar
300g dark crystal
200g chocolate malt
100g roasted malt
Nottingham yeast
22L


Other recipes …


CraigTube's English Porter Experiment:


1.7Kg English Bitter
1.5kg light liquid malt extract
500g light dry malt
500g crystal 60L
230g chocolate Malt
30g Fuggles @10 minutes
1 worlflock tablet or irish moss for clearing
Windsor English Style yeast



Canadian Eh!L's Campfire Porter:

Original post
1.7Kg English Bitter
1.7Kg OS Stout
200g smoked Malt
200g dextrose
23L water
14g Cooper's Ale Yeast (rehydrated)

 

[RobboMC]

I created this recipe when my little girl was born,
so I call it Sophie's Porter.

1 can Muntons Nut Brown Ale
1 can Morgans Caramalt Liquid Malt
500g light dry malt ( for the hop boil in 6 litres of water )

50g Fuggles boiled 15 min
50g Goldings boiled 10 min

Grains steeped for 45 min or mini-mashed at 68 deg C if you can manage that )
500g Dark Crystal grain
500g Munich grain

Leave out the grain of you just want a kit and boil version. Use some liquid malt in the boil
instead of the dry malt. And if you want a straight K&K without any extras
the Nut Brown Ale and can of Caramalt is a good place to start. I believe this is one
of the best straight K&K combinations there is. ( C'mon someone prove me wrong, so I can try it )

I used the kit yeast, Muntons standard yeast is pretty good, part of why you pay extra for the kit.
Also you could add 300g of Chocolate grain if you like.

Made up to around 22 litres comes in around 6.5% and is a fairly decent Porter.
Add more water if you prefer it less strong.

 

[Maffew]

Ended up with something that looked like this-

- 1.7kg morgans ironbark dark ale
- 50g roast
- 100g amber
- 200g medium crystal
- 1.5 kg coopers liquid amber malt extract
- 500ml vanilla corn syrup

Soaked 2 vanilla beans for a week in 100ml of blantons reserve whiskey and put that in the fermenter too.

Cracked one after two weeks to make sure it was beer.
Nice vanilla coffee tones. Slight smoked hint (whiskey I'm guessing)

Now to leave it for another 3 or 4 months.

 

[Xander]

These were all copy and pasted from the coopers forum, I've done SteveL's porter and it was delicious

SteveL's Accidental JS Porter Clone:

Revised recipe
1.7Kg English Bitter
300g chocolate grain
250 medium crystal grain
100g roasted barley
200g dark brown sugar
1kg light dry malt
21g Coopers yeast
made to 21 litres



AdamH's Poita Porter:

Revised recipe
1.7Kg English Bitter
300g Choc malt 600
100g Roast Barley
200g Medium Crystal 120
1kg of DME
200g Dark Brown Sugar (either this or molasses)
15g EKG @10mins
15g EKG @flame out
Yeast S04



Ruddager's Very Roasty Porter:

Original post
1.7kg English Bitter
1.5kg Coopers light LME
200g Pale chocolate malt (~600)
150g Roast barley (~1300)
150g Light Crystal (~60)
200g Brown sugar
30g Fuggles @10
Nottingham yeast

Cooper's “Robo Choc” recipe of the month from July, 2014 …



Recipe
1.7kg English Bitter
1.5kg amber liquid malt extract
250g white sugar
300g dark crystal
200g chocolate malt
100g roasted malt
Nottingham yeast
22L


Other recipes …

CraigTube's English Porter Experiment:


1.7Kg English Bitter
1.5kg light liquid malt extract
500g light dry malt
500g crystal 60L
230g chocolate Malt
30g Fuggles @10 minutes
1 worlflock tablet or irish moss for clearing
Windsor English Style yeast




Canadian Eh!L's Campfire Porter:

Original post
1.7Kg English Bitter
1.7Kg OS Stout
200g smoked Malt
200g dextrose
23L water
14g Cooper's Ale Yeast (rehydrated)

So no hops for the JS Porter Clone? Do you recommend using a different yeast?
What is the process for this brew? (I'm a new brewer sorry pal)

Thanks for putting these up! I'm keen to get one (or more) bottled for winter.
Cheers.

 

[TheBigD]

Cant remember what yeast I used but I think it was Windser (i really should take notes), feel free to steep and/or dry hop its only going to add to it, I probably through some Fuggles in as that's what I had at the time.

 

[Xander]

SteveL's Accidental JS Porter Clone:

Revised recipe
1.7Kg English Bitter
300g chocolate grain
250 medium crystal grain
100g roasted barley
200g dark brown sugar
1kg light dry malt
21g Coopers yeast
made to 21 litres

So I got some fuggle hops today - 30 grams total. When should I add these and how much of them? Not bothered if I don't use all of them...

Cheers.

 

[TheBigD]

Id just boil a litre of water take off the heat and throw the whole lot in and steep for 10 minutes then throw the lot in your FV, hops and all if you can cold crash, if not pour the hop tea through a strainer. or you could hop tea 15 grams at the start and dry hop the other 15 on day 4 of fermentation.

 

[Magnaman]

Hey Xander, my two bob's worth would be to give the Fuggles a 10 minute boil, but that's just me.

 

[nvs-brews]

i did a REAL simple 1.. worked a treat, 1 of the only brews ive done more than once and will do it again (even though ive moved onto AG now)

1.7kg Thomas Coopers Brewmaster Selection Irish Stout lme
1.5kg Morgans roasted dark (unhopped) lme

2 or 3 frozen young coconut juice packets (get them from your local asian market/supermarket/store)

(add the juice and add the flesh but put it in a bag or ball so you dont block your tap etc)

and i brewed 1.5ltr of coffee (a nice percualted ground coffee or whatever... no instant shit)
added that...

us-05 yeast..

was a tasty drop..

the coffee is optional, i would add the coconut juice, ive it a slight nut taste..
do you bottle or keg?

if you keg i would add the coconut/coffee pretty much when fermentation is done
If you bottle i would probably add prior to pitching yeast..

it's quick/simple and pretty damn tasty!

 

[TheBigD]

looks like an interesting recipe nvs-brews but that would be a stout not a porter :unsure:

 

[nvs-brews]

yeah i tend just to make my own recipes...
porter/stout boarder is pretty thin.. specially when it said porter(ish)

entered it into a comp as a porter, was just a bit low abv (imo) to be a stout

 

[TheBigD]

i purchased a can of coopers Irish stout only last week to put down after the two fermenting now, I don't know if Im game enough to use coconut though

 

[nvs-brews]

oh its great...
they cost about $1.20 a pack..

for shits and giggles, buy 1 and pour about 300/600 ml of coffee over it in a container.. give that a sniff and taste.. coffee and coconut go great!

it fades pretty quickly in beer so if you want to try a bit, it wont last to long.... i always keep some in the freezer, its a nice little nutty sweetener.. it ferments.. ive added it to all sorts..
i keg so i dont have to worry about adding post ferment and getting bottle bombs

 

[Xander]

I've got the JSporter fermenting now...

Should I do a secondary on this one? What difference will it make if I do or if I don't?

Cheers!