My favourite beer is Emerson’s London Porter, a nice easy drinking Porter somewhere between a Brown Porter and a Robust Porter. So my goal was to try and somewhat emulate Emerson’s offering without making it a clone.
This beer is a pretty standard looking porter recipe based on Gladfield Ale Malt, with Medium Crystal and Chocolate Malts, and some oats thrown in for body. Hops for bittering at 60 minutes is the only hops this beer will see. So nothing out of the ordinary happening with this beer, pretty standard English porter.
This flavour of this beer is all about chocolate and roastiness, with a balanced bitterness lingering at the back end. Colourwise it’s a nice dark shade of brown with a tan head, and when held up to the light a nice red hue dances through the beer.
Recipe Specifications
Batch Size: 23.00 litres
ABV: 5.3%
OG: 1.058 SG
FG: 1.014 SG
Color: 70 EBC
IBU: 25.0 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 73.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes
Mash Schedule
60 Minutes @ 67 Degrees Celsius
15 Minute Mashout @ 75 Degrees Celsius
Grain
4.3kg Gladfield Ale Malt
.5kg Harroways Rolled Oats
.45kg Gladiator Medium Crystal Malt
.23kg Gladfield Light Chocolate Malt
.23kg Gladfield Dark Chocolate Malt
Hops
Bittering @ 60 minutes to 25 IBU (Suggested Fuggles, EKG, Taiheke etc)
Misc
1 x Whirlfloc @ 15 Minutes
Yeast
1 x pkg Fermentis US-04
Brew Sessions
http://www.denemcdonald.com/first-robobrew-day-porter/
http://www.denemcdonald.com/woodside-porter-ekg/
http://www.denemcdonald.com/woodside-porter-v3/
http://www.denemcdonald.com/woodside-porter-taiheke-edition/