The third rebrew of my Woodside Porter Again. Again with Taiheke hops for bittering due to difficulty getting reasonable priced Fuggles.
The last brew of this was slightly disapointing and had a slight off flavour due to a possible infection but nothing serious. This is a lot cleaner but still not as good as the first brew. Therefore next brew will have an equal amount of Light Chocolate and Dark Chocolate to both darken the colour and add more chocolate depth. I’ve secured some East Kent Goldings as well, as while the Taiheke is good its not what I wanted.
Details
Mashed in with 16 litres and was a little dry so added an extra litre of cold water. Not much flow through so pump off and temp sitting at 71 on the robobrew but my thermometer was saying 64 Very slow flow rate during the mash and took ages to clear.
1.065 After 60 minute mash so extended mash, after 1 hour 50 1.072 so mashed out. Need to get iodine.
1.072 after mash out
Sparged with 15 litres
1.046 pre boil with 27.9 litres
Started timer and went to check it and it had reset itself. So Chiller went in approx 50 mins and extended the boil for 5 mins.
15 mins to cool
24 litres @ 1.049
22 litres to fermenter
Fermentation
Fermenter: Plastic Carboy
Chamber: V Fridge
Heat Source: Heatpad
Controller: Grey
Recipe Specifications
Estimated OG: 1.052 SG
Estimated Color: 52.0 EBC
Estimated IBU: 25.4 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 78.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 81.4 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes
Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
3.80 kg Gladfield Ale Malt (6.0 EBC) Grain 1 76.3 %
0.50 kg Harraway’s Rolled Oats (2.8 EBC) Grain 2 10.0 %
0.45 kg Gladfield Medium Crystal Malt (111.0 EBC Grain 3 9.0 %
0.23 kg Gladfield Dark Chocolate Malt (1300.0 EB Grain 4 4.6 %
29.00 g Taiheke [7.80 %] – Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 25.4 IBUs
1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 6 –
1.0 pkg SafAle English Ale (DCL/Fermentis #S-04) Yeast 7 –
Mash Schedule: Robobrew, Full Body
Total Grain Weight: 4.98 kg
