Grey Skies Porter
Beer Recipe
| Recipe Name: | Grey Skies Porter |
| Style: | 12B Robust Porter |
| Mash: | All Grain |
| Volume: | 5.5 Gal |
| OG: | 1.060 |
| FG: | 1.015 |
| % Alc: | 6 |
| IBU: | 42 |
| SRM: | 33 |
| Description of this Beer |
| Balanced, roasty, and delicious. This beer was designed to be similar to Deschutes's Black Butte Porter, but with "more character." This recipe is fine with slightly more or less bitterness or with slightly more or less base malt. I have experimented with different yeasts, too - I think it's an all-around great porter recipe to mess around with and make your own. This is a style with a lot of wiggle room for brewers, so make it to your taste. |
| Fermentables |
| Amount & Type of Fementable (grain, extract, sugar, fruit, etc.) |
|
9 lb Maris Otter (fine with US Pale Ale malt, too) 1 lb British Medium Crystal (Domestic 40-80L is fine, too) 1 lb British Pale Chocolate Malt (12 oz Regular British or US Chocolate is a fair sub) 8 oz Belgian Aromatic Malt (Melanoidin Malt works equally well) 8 oz British Extra Dark Crystal Malt (or Domestic 120L) 4-8 oz Carafa Special II (or sub British Black Malt for a roastier porter) |
| Hops |
| Amount & Type of Hops, %AA, pellet/whole/plug, time in boil/FWH/Dry Hop/Mash Hop |
|
.75 oz Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus 16% AA 60 min .5 oz Willamette 4% AA 15 min |
| Other Ingredients |
| Amount & Type (herbs, spices, wood, finings, etc.), When/Where Added |
|
1 tablet Whirlfloc 1/4 tsp yeast nutrient |
| Yeast | |
| Type of Yeast (e.g. Wyeast 1056, White Labs WLP001) | Amount Pitched |
| Wyeast 1318 (or other British-style yeast) | 2L starter |
| Directions |
| Include mash temps/times, boil times, fermentation temps/duration, etc. |
|
60 min mash at 154F Sparge at 170F 90 min boil Fermentation temp in mid-range for yeast chosen |