Chocolate Orange Porter - Brewday! Pics inside :)

[RobWalker]

Rock and roll! My weekend brew, hope it's delicious.

Chocolate Orange Porter
Brew Type: All Grain 
Date: 04/07/2012 
Style: Brown Porter 
Brewer: Robert Walker 
Batch Size: 9.00 L
Boil Volume: 10.00 L 
Boil Time: 60 min 

Ingredients Amount Item Type % or IBU 
1.50 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.0 SRM) Grain 72.8 % 
0.25 kg CaraMalt (15.2 SRM) Grain 12.1 % 
0.13 kg Chocolate Malt (450.0 SRM) Grain 6.3 % 
10.00 gm Aurora [8.60%] (60 min) Hops 20.3 IBU 
10.00 gm Bobek [4.00%] (15 min) Hops 4.7 IBU 
10.00 gm Cascade [5.50%] (3 min) Hops 1.5 IBU 
2.00 items Orange Peel, Sweet (Boil 5.0 min) Misc  
80.00 gm Cocoa Powder (Boil 1.0 min) Misc  
0.18 kg Milk Sugar (Lactose) (0.0 SRM) Sugar 8.7 % 

Beer Profile Estimated Original Gravity: 1.052 SG (1.040-1.052 SG)
Estimated Final Gravity: 1.014 SG (1.008-1.014 SG)
Estimated Color: 25.3 SRM (20.0-30.0 SRM)
Bitterness: 26.5 IBU (18.0-35.0 IBU)
Estimated Alcohol by Volume: 5.0 % (4.0-5.4 %)

General everything shot

Grain Bill

Hops, peel, cocoa.

Dough in

Cowboy mash tun

 

[Bailey]

Very sweet with the crystal as well.

 

[tazuk]

mmm i wonder wot this would be like as a stout mmmm verry :thumb:

 

[RobWalker]

Not far off I guess, my inspiration for this is the sweet cooper's stout i'm drinking now, just thought i'd try a porter instead. :)

 

[RobWalker]

Just bumping to let y'all know this has gone ahead

 

[RobWalker]

boil on! wort is ridiculously sweet. somehow my OG is 1.057 when I was aiming for 1.052!

 

[PD]

How much wort did you get to boil ?

 

[RobWalker]

10l. I let the hot break go at about 8.5l after grain absorption, then the bag is dumped in boiler top up water, gives me a bit more wort on a small system. Not saying my figures are entirely accurate, but it makes good beer!

 

[RobWalker]

Bottled. Very thick at the moment, a little worried that there'll be tonnes of leftover cocoa sludge in the bottles! My hydrometer measured 1.030 but it's dry! Needs some maturing now...

 

[RobWalker]

Well, against all odds, this has turned out quite well! Cracked the first pint tonight.

It's not clear, there's a few bits floating in it, looks like strands. But the sediment has packed nicely, so the sediment and small amount of chocolate powder in the bottles are seperating when pouring, meaning that the floaters arn't nasty sediment but tasty chocolate. There's no greasiness or nasty texture when drinking, so it's palatable even if head retention is low :)

Flavour wise, it's a bit bitter and dry, but the chocolate is nice. Orange doesn't come through much, maybe I should serve with grand mariner! But it's drinkable, and my stupid brewing phases are calming down now, so not a roaring success but a beer nontheless and hopefully one I can crack out to make people laugh :

 

[abeyptfc]

nice effort man, better stick to the Terry's Chocolate Orange lol!