AG porter recipe for beginner

Roger Wilko · Jun 1, 2019

Hi folks, like many of you i fancy a dabble at AG after a few years succesfully brewing from kits. I want to brew a simple Porter with some hop additions. Any takers please with instructions lol.
Thanks in advance

GerritT · Jun 1, 2019

Whitbread Porter
Pale malt 10.75 lb (4.9 kg) 81.13%
Brown malt 1.75 lb (794 g) 13.21%
Black malt 0.75 lb (340 g) 5.66%

Fuggles 60 min 1.25 oz (35 g)
Cluster 90 min 0.50 oz (14 g)
Spalter 90 min 0.75 oz (21 g)

OG 1055
FG 1010
ABV 6%

from Ronald Pattinson. “The Home Brewer's Guide to Vintage Beer” (excellent book, go buy it)
for 23L with a 70% efficiency if I recall correctly. It's an old recipe (over 130 years old), yeast choice up to discretion of the brewer.

Roger Wilko · Jun 1, 2019

Need to get myself a book

GerritT · Jun 1, 2019

Pattinson writes nice books, he's a bit of an historian, Greg Hughes is something of a god around here, and there's of course https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/forums/brewing-books-publications.79/

Ask 'm for Fathers day, or Birthday, of Kwanza.

ACBEV · Jun 2, 2019

I'd second Pattinson's books, a wealth of historical information and recipes...

This is my Porter recipe...
23L Batch
OG: 1.041
FG: 1.011
ABV: 4.0
IBU: 35

3000g Pale Malt
225g Brown Malt
300g Chocolate Malt
150g Special B
125g Oat Malt
175g Flaked Barley
225g Wheat Malt

Mash @ 66c for 60 minutes with 10.5L
Add 10L @ 77c and wait another 30 minutes
Drain 1st runnings into a bucket
Add 13L @ 77c and wait 10 minutes
Drain second runnings

Boil for 90 minutes
@ 90 minutes - 21g Northdown
@ 30 minutes - 21g Fuggles
@ 20 Minutes - 7g Saaz

Yeast: London Ale III
Pitch @ 18c
Ferment @ 21c (2 weeks)

matt76 · Jun 2, 2019

In that case I'll second Greg Hughes's book - I made his brown porter earlier this year and it's excellent athumb..

One thing to bear in mind, darker beers like this really do seem to benefit from a bit longer aging - I tried my porter 2 weeks after bottling and it was ok but still very young tasting. An additional 2 weeks paid dividends and it really improved. :beer1:

Roger Wilko · Jun 2, 2019

Thanks for the advice, I had a look for the mentioned book on amazon and it was £42 second hand .???. So much for a cheap hobby

matt76 · Jun 2, 2019

You should be able to find Hughes more reasonably priced

The Baron · Jun 2, 2019

I think I gave under £5 inc postage for Greg Hughes book my tip is look for a used copy from the big sellers on Ebay who grade them on quality and are generally cheap

Roger Wilko · Jun 2, 2019

Good idea

Roger Wilko · Jun 2, 2019

Omg

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