29 March, 2011

Home Brew: Brown Porter

I brewed up this Brown Porter back in late Feb, bottled it a couple weeks after, and just sampled it after two weeks in the bottle. Me likey! Great fluffy off-white head, nice malt aroma with light chocolate notes. Very smooth body with just enough hops to balance well with the maltyness. Although, I didn't use English hops, I used both Centennial and Crystal, which are usually a bit more floral/fruity. But frankly you can't tell.

We'll see how this develops over the next couple weeks. I may enter this one in the brew fest.



Style: Brown Porter
Brewer: Chris Hartman
Batch: 2.20 gal

Recipe Characteristics
Recipe Bitterness 32 IBU
Alcohol by Volume 5.6%
Recipe Color 22° SRM
Alcohol by Weight 4.4%

Ingredients
0.50 lb Brown Sugar, Dark Sugar Other
0.50 lb Crystal 90L Grain Mashed
0.50 lb Crystal 120L Grain Mashed
0.75 lb MrB. Booster Sugar Other
1.21 lb MrB. Englishman's Nut-Brown Ale Extract Extract

0.50 oz Centennial Whole 30 minutes
1.00 oz Crystal Whole 10 minutes

1.00 unit Irish Moss Fining 1/2 tsp
0.50 unit Safale US-05 Dry Ale Yeast Yeast Temperature Range: 59°-75° F 11.5 GRAMS

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