4th Brew a Mr J Porter

I thought I might try a porter for my next brew if any one has any thought on porters ( nice ones )
please run your eyes over the below
I like stouts and such but have started to become fond of dark beers at are fairly dry and light with a bit more carbonation.
by the way Mr J is my dog (black lab)
OVERVIEW

Style: Porter
Name: Mr J Porter
Yeast: US - 05
Original Gravity: 1.050
Total IBU's: 30
Colour (EBC):
Efficiency at End of Boil: 73%
Mash Length (mins):90
Boil Length (mins):90
Your Vessel Type (Pot/Keggle/Urn):Keggle
Source/Credits:
Notes/Instructions/Comments: N/C

Volumes etc.
Your Vessel Volume (L):50
Your Vessel Diameter (cm or in):32
Water Required (L): 37
Mash Temperature (C): 64C
Volume at End of Boil (L):
Volume into Fermenter (L):23
Brew Length (L): 19
Total Grain Bill (g or oz):

Grains - Colours - Percentages and/or Weight (g or oz)
Grain 1: BB Ale malt 90% 4.66Kg
Grain 2:Choc Wheat 3.5% .18Kg
Grain 3:Choc malt 3.5% .18kg
Grain 4: Amber Malt 2% .10kg
Grain 5: Carafa Special 2 1% .05kg

Hops - AA% - IBUs - Weight (g or oz) at Minutes
Hop 1: North downs 9.6% 21g @ 60min
Hop 2: North downs 9.6% 21g @ 5min
Hop 3:
etc

Adjuncts/Minerals/Finings etc
Adjunct:
Mineral:
Finings: gelatin

Also got my STC-1000 temp controller just got to wire up this bad boy then no more midnight trips to the fermenting fridge ice blocks in toe
Mex

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Well thank god it's Friday
I brewed this one last Sunday, everything went as well as could be expected, extra good rolling boil with a bit more evaporation than usual. Should have expected it as the weekend was a scorcher
No chilled and pitched on Monday, Hooked up the STC-1000 to 18.5C leave and forget sweet
Checked grav on Thurs and she's down to 1.022 from 1.050
Notes: Nice and dark out of light black, up to light a dark crimson red, Lovely Choc biscuit like flavor
Kept a ltr of the break material and put in fridge, after the break seperated poured of wort as to get an idea of colour and flavour as I have never made a dark style before, I tell you can not wait
This Sunday I'm going to have a crack at an ALT'ish German style as a mate has given me some of his German yeast starter.
Percentages: Munich 96%, CaraMunich 1 3%, Choc 1% and some Hallertau

Mex

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Thank PP.
Did the Alt today, all went well, very strange though, normally I only get about about 3.5 to 4 lts of break at the end but today I got close to 6 lts loss at the bottom I think I must have moved my pick up too low also there was a heap more hops in there that blocked it up too
Live and learn. Other than that colour looks nice and rich and there is a nice bitterness, will pitch once the porter is finished.
Today Porter is down to 1.011 exepect it to get down to 1.008 Sample has mellowed nicely
Upped temp to 21C to kick the little buggers along
When I heard that they say that AG is addictive they weren't joking

Mex

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Spewing just worked out my Eff 64%, if it wasn't for the pick up trub issue I might have got close to 72%
Oh well Live and learn

Mex

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Yeh, not wrong there Hashie . I was able to get 3 bottles from the bottom of the fermentor going to keep these little babies for a while before cracking them open
I think thats where double batch would come in handy

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hashie wrote:I wonder how long you will be able mature that keg Mex?

If it was me, it might get 2 weeks max.

Cool, so I'm not the only one Late last year I brewed a relatively high alcohol choc porter, with the intention to age it until the middle of winter 2011.

As of today there are three bottles left.

Might have to do it again soon, and let it age a bit for the September NSW comp. My only concern is that I dont know whether it's strictly a porter or a sweet stout Damn the BJCP guidelines.

While we're throwing tasty recipes up for this style, here's mine. You will note that I cheated a bit on the pure "AG" by adding Caramalt LME.

1500.00 gm Can of Morgans Caramalt Extract 19.48 %
5000.00 gm Pale Malt (3.0 SRM) Grain 64.94 %
300.00 gm Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 3.90 %
250.00 gm Brown Malt (65.0 SRM) Grain 3.25 %
250.00 gm CaraPils (2.0 SRM) Grain 3.25 %
150.00 gm Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 1.95 %
30.00 gm Northern Brewer [11.00 %] (60 min) Hops 25.9 IBU
20.00 gm Northern Brewer [11.00 %] (20 min) Hops 10.5 IBU
100.00 gm Cocoa (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
250.00 gm Brown Sugar, Light (8.0 SRM) Sugar 3.25 %
1 Pkgs California Ale (White Labs #WLP001) Yeast-Ale

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