Johan Smithlehimer's Tardy Porter (10/19/95)
- Ingredients:
- 2.0 lb. American Crystal Malt (40L) (cracked)
- 2.0 lb. American Munich Malt (10L) (cracked)
- 4.0 oz. M&F Chocolate Malted Barley (cracked)
- 4.0 oz. Black Patent Malted Barley (490L) (cracked)
- 5.0 lb. Munton's Light Dry Malt Extract (DME)
- 6.0 oz. Malto-Dextrin Powder
- 1.0 oz. Eroica Hops (boil) Alpha = 12.0%
- 1.0 oz. Willamette Hops (aroma) Alpha = 4.4%
- 2 packages Whitbread Ale Yeast
Procedure:
- Bring water to 150 degrees (F)
- Steep specialty grains for 45 minutes
- Bring wort to a boil
- Add DME & Dextrin
- Get to hot break
- Add 1/2 boiling hops
- Boil 30 mintues
- Add 1/2 boiling hops
- Boil 30 minutes
- Add aromatic hops
- Boil 2 minutes
- Chill with wort chiller
- Add 2 packages of dry yeast to 1 cup water and let sit 15 minutes
- Move wort to carboy
- Add yeast to carboy and shake around (aerate)
- Put blow-off tube in carboy and seal with tube sticking in bucket of water
- Readings:
- O.G. = 1.076
- F.G. =
Bottling ():
Notes:
Trying for something like Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter. Started bubbling
very strongly almost immediately. Ended after 2 or 3 days.