Black Butte Porter Clone Brew
Not satisfied with the progress my porters are making, I decided to attempt to clone Black Butte Porter and work from there. I got the recipe from a Can You Brew It episode, so it should be pretty accurate. It’ll just be a matter of seeing how well I pull it off.
It’s an interesting recipe in the amount of Wheat Malt along with Cara-Pils. Also, I’m going to do a 3-step mash per the instructions along with a fly sparge (as opposed to batch as I usually do). I’ll accomplish the fly sparge by using my bottling bucket as a hot liquor tank and setting it on the fridge. With the MLT on the back of the stove, I should have a good 3-tier setup and it will hopefully lead to some better efficiency.
Recipe
BeerSmith Recipe
Fly Sparge
Brew Day (11/28/10)
Turns out the fly sparge didn’t help efficiency that much.
Kegging
This is my first beer to be kegged. Not much else to say about that.
Impressions
From memory ~17 days from final taste: Hop/Malt balance clearly too far to the hop side for this. I’m not interested in re-brewing this anytime soon. I think my brown porter has much more promise and I’m not too big into cloning at the moment.
