Hemp Porter (All Grain) 5 us gallons

Hemp Porter
(All Grain) 5 us gallons

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This Homebrew Recipe was added by R. Michener on January 02, 1999 at 03:02:39:
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Brewing Method: All Grain
Yeast: Nottingham Ale, 14gr.
Yeast Starter: none (rehydrated in 105 degree water
Batch Size: 5 us gallons
Original Gravity: 50
Final Gravity: 12
Alcohol Content: 5.0 %
Total Grains: 10 lbs.
Color: unknown
Extract Efficiency: unknown %
Hop IBU's: unknown
Boiling Time: 65 minutes
Primary Fermentation: 7 days, temperatures 65-80 F
Secondary Fermentation: none
Additional Fermentation: none

Grain Bill:

British 2 Row 8 lbs.
Crystal 90 1 lb.
Black Patent .5 lb.
Chocolate .5 lb.

Hop Bill:

Perle (6.7) 2 oz. 45 minutes
Hemp Seeds 4 gm. 30
Irish Moss 1 tsp. 20
Tettnang (4.5) .5 oz 15
Tettnang (4.5) .5 oz 10

Mash Schedule:

All grains mashed wiht 10 quarts untreated tap water (Sonoma,CA) for 110 minutes with temperature slowly dropping from 69 C at start to 63 C at end of mash. Sparged grains with four gallons untreated water at 80 C.

Brewers Notes:

Volume at beginning of boil was 6.5 gallons, ending 5.5 gallons.
Wort chiller employed to drop wort temp to 29 C within 25 minutes, yeast pitched at that temp.
Hemp seeds were standard quality mexican, approx. 1 year old

This brew is smooth an satisfying with only minor hoppiness and slight bitterness due to hemp seeds. Heralded by all who consumed as an excellent example of the lesser hopped porter style.