Your Basic Smoked Porter (All Grain) 5 US gal

Your Basic Smoked Porter
(All Grain) 5 US gal

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This Homebrew Recipe was added by Rope on October 18, 2001 at 14:51:04:
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Brewing Method: All Grain
Yeast: Wyeast 1056 American Ale
Yeast Starter: None - 2 small 1 year old SmackPacks + oxygen
Batch Size: 5 US gal
Original Gravity: 1.054
Final Gravity: 1.016
Alcohol Content: 5 %
Total Grains: 10.13 lb
Color: 24
Extract Efficiency: 75 %
Hop IBU's: 53
Boiling Time: 60 minutes
Primary Fermentation: 20 days @ 65慚
Secondary Fermentation: 3 months @ 40慚
Additional Fermentation:

Grain Bill:

6.50 lbs Pale Malt (Briess 2-row)
2.00 lbs Smoked Malt (Weyermann)
0.50 lbs Crystal 40摔
0.50 lbs Cara-Pils
0.50 lbs Chocolate Malt
0.13 lbs Black Patent Malt

Hop Bill:

1.50 oz Willamette Pellet 4.8% AA First Wort Hopping
0.50 oz Willamette Pellet 4.8% AA for 30 minutes
1.00 oz Fuggle Whole 4.9% AA for 30 minutes

Mash Schedule:

1.58 qts/lb mash water w/1 tsp Gypsum

152慚 for around 90 minutes
168慚 for 10 Mashout

Brewers Notes:

First attempt at this style and it was pretty good (2nd place 2001 BRCC). Next time will cut back on the hopping to IBU's in low-to-mid 40's and possibly up the mash temp and lower the water/grist ratio.