Community Brew Part Deux!!
so i attempted to concoct an original recipe using a generator (i still dont know enough about the individual ingredients to do it myself) and i came up with
0.26 lbs. American Caramel 60°L
0.41 lbs. English Chocolate Malt
0.49 lbs. British Black Patent
0.18 lbs. Special Roast Malt WK
5.49 lbs. Liquid Light Extract
1.25 lbs. Dry Light Extract
0.35 lbs. Maple Syrup
1.7 oz. Cascade (Pellets, 5.50 %AA) boiled 60 min.
0.50 oz. Hallertau Tradition (Pellets, 6.00 %AA) boiled 15 min.
0.50 oz. Perle (Pellets, 8.25 %AA) boiled 1 min.
Yeast : White Labs WLP005 British Ale
not sure if Special Roast Malt WK will add a smokey flavor
I'm pretty much up for anything. Porter's are generally fairly full bodied already but maybe if we cut the crystal in half and added carapils in it's place that would ensure we have a full bodied beer. Personally I would rather not add the oats, maybe we could do an oatmeal stout sometime soon. I haven't seen many porter recipes using oats, but who knows maybe it would turn out damn good. About how many cinnamon sticks would make up a tenth of an ounce? And if we do use cinnamon I think we should add it to the secondary or it may scrub out any of the flavor in the primary, at least thats the experience I've had with cinnamon.
I would say 1/10 of an oz would be 1 stick... maybe 1.5. That is cool about the oats... maybe some other time, just a suggestion to thicken it up. I think it might be interesting to add some carapils... but you probably wouldn't even have to use less Crystal because, as I understand it, the carapils does not add flavor or change the color... just adds body.
My one and only experience using cinnamon I added it to the last 30 mins of the boil. I used 1 oz, so it turned out pretty strong... but i feel like it should be boiled a little bit, even if you toss it in the last 5 minutes. If you are only using 1 stick, i dont think it would be too overpowering.
Added Cara-pils, should we stick with the irish yeast or go with British Ale as suggested by sticky?
also sticky has suggested some diff hops, are we happy with this combo or should we go with sticky's or something else?
6.00 lb Amber Liquid Extract Extract
0.50 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine Grain
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L Grain
0.25 lb Black (Patent) Malt Grain
0.25 lb Chocolate Malt Grain
0.25 lb Smoked Malt Grain
1.00 oz Hallertauer (60 min) Hops
1.00 oz Fuggles (60 min) Hops
1.00 oz Hallertauer (20 min) Hops
1.00 oz Fuggles (20 min) Hops
0.10 oz Cinnamon Stick (Boil 5.0 min) (?1 stick) Misc
0.50 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1.00 lb Maple Syrup Sugar
5.00 gal Distilled Water Water
1 Pkgs Irish Ale (Wyeast Labs #1084) Yeast-Ale
Est Original Gravity: 1.051 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.013 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.9%
Bitterness: 29.5 IBU
Est Color: 27.8 SRM
2 gallon boil / Steep Grains 30min @ 155 degrees / Maple Syrup add 1/2# @ 20min left of boil then 1/2# to secondary
(edit post wop response)
Only concern I would have is adding a half of a pound of maple syrup before bottling. Seems like a lot to prime with to me. I don't know much about maple syrup so i am not sure how much sugar is actually in it. Might end up with closet grenades, or a super carbonated porter. Just something to think about. But other than that I think the recipe looks pretty tasty. I have to side on the liquid Irish ale yeast, i am most used to using liquid yeast and it is what I can easily get but I can always order off a website too.
Cheers
so should we remove the 1/2lb of maple at kegging/bottling? and increase the amount to 1/2lb when adding to secondary?
From some vermont maple sites I've looked at they called out their syrup as 66% sugar. This is what I have seen in a few recipes for bottling using maple
8oz. (1/2 lb.)
.33 c. corn sugar with .66 c. maple syrup
3/4 c. maple sugar
We could always prime with 1 1/4 c. LDME for added body and because it's a tried and true method with pretty consistent results. I've read that this is a beer that will improve greatly with a little more aging. I've had good success with Irish ale yeasts for darker beers. I was on the wyeast web site and this was one they recommended for porters but an american ale 1056 and a british ale would work just as well I'm sure.
I vote for Brewluva's latest recipe.... that looks like it will turn out great. I think we should move the 1/2 pound for kegging/bottling to adding it to the secondary and just use standard priming sugar to prime. Andrew is right.. it is a tried and true method.
I hope everyone who voted will make this brew. I can't wait to brew this one! Where are you guys going to get your maple syrup?
Yeah, i think we got our brew. but will hold out another day or two for any final thoughts before committing and ordering supplies, prime with DME/priming sugar method. as far as getting maple syrup it shouldnt be to hard i live in NH, and if i cant i will hit the grocery store and get somthing as long as its real maple syrup.
Let me know when we decide on a recipe (email me at mark -at- brewingkb -dot- com) - I'll make a sticky thread for it where we can put the recipe and people can ask questions...
Looks good to me too. This ones going to be fun. For those of us that don't live near any maple syrup producers you can google maple sap or maple sugar and more than enough distributers pop up to buy from. Not sure how long it takes them to ship though.
i agree, anyone else that plans to participate please speak up, i think we will commit to this recipe tonight.
Awesome! Can't wait to start this one!
well this is it lets get brewing!!!
6.00 lb Amber Liquid Extract Extract
0.50 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine Grain
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L Grain
0.25 lb Black (Patent) Malt Grain
0.25 lb Chocolate Malt Grain
0.25 lb Smoked Malt Grain
1.00 oz Hallertauer (60 min) Hops
1.00 oz Fuggles (60 min) Hops
1.00 oz Hallertauer (20 min) Hops
1.00 oz Fuggles (20 min) Hops
0.10 oz Cinnamon Stick (Boil 5.0 min) (?1 stick) Misc
0.50 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1.00 lb Maple Syrup Sugar
5.00 gal Distilled Water Water
1 Pkgs Irish Ale (Wyeast Labs #1084) Yeast-Ale
Est Original Gravity: 1.051 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.013 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.9%
Bitterness: 29.5 IBU
Est Color: 27.8 SRM
2 gallon boil / Steep Grains 30min @ 155 degrees / Maple Syrup add 1/2# @ 20min left of boil then 1/2# to secondary
Bought my ingredients today! I plan on brewing this one tomorrow... made a starter (my first one) this afternoon from a whitelabs Irish ale yeast.
I found some great organic maple syrup too. This one was a little expensive... about $53 for everything. is that what you guys are spending for ingredients?
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