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Texas Dawg Slobber - Bear Creek Porter
By John Patterson (76177,137)
Lampasas, Texas
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INGREDIENTS
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5 gallons water
2 cans John Bull Dark Malt Extract (unhopped)
12 oz. bottle "Grandma's" unsulphured molasses
2 cups Crystal malt crushed
2 cups Dark Crystal malt crushed
1 cup Chocolate malt crushed
1/2 cup Black Patent malt crushed
1 oz Kent Golding pellets (60 min.)
1 oz Kent Golding pellets (20 min.)
1/2 oz Kent Golding pellets (when heat off)
WYeast #1028 "London" liquid yeast
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DIRECTIONS
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I boil all 5 gallons. To compensate for loss due to evaporation, I boiled
the wort in 2 gallons of water in one pot, and boiled 4 gallons of clear
water in a separate brewpot.
Crack the malts and place in a cheesecloth grain bag.
Place grains in brewpot containing 1 gallon of water. Raise temperature
to 150-155 degrees F. and hold there for 30 minutes.
At the end of 30 minutes remove grains and discard.
Add enough water to the brewpot to bring it up to 2 gallons and continue
heating the brewpot until the water starts to boil. Remove the pot from heat
and dissolve both cans of malt extract and the molasses in the brewpot,
stirring constantly. Return pot to burner add 1 ounce of Kent Golding hop
pellets and boil for 60 minutes being careful to stir the wort occasionally
so that the malt does not burn on the bottom of the brewpot. When the wort
has boiled for 40 minutes add another ounce of Kent Golding and continue
boiling. When the wort has boiled for 60 minutes remove brewpot from heat
and add 1/2 ounce of Kent Golding.
Once the wort has cooled a little, add it and enough of the boiled water to
make 5 gallons of wort, to your primary fermenter, I used a glass carboy.
The use of a wort chiller is encouraged.
Once the wort has cooled to 70 to 75 degrees, pitch yeast.
After 8 days of fermentation the wort calmed down enough to rack it to a
secondary fermenter (again, a glass carboy) and allowed to ferment further.
Fermentation probably completely halted in another week. I say probably
because I put the secondary in the closet and forgot all about it. It sat
there for a full 84 days. Luckily there was enough CO2 in the carboy to keep
the beer from spoiling.
Bottle or keg as you normally do.
After 1 week of bottle conditioning, the ale was drinkable and mildly
effervescent. It could stand another week or so to fully carbonate.
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STATISTICS
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Total wort volume: 5 gallons
Original gravity: 1.054 at 75 degrees
Terminal gravity: 1.014 at 70 degrees
Calculated % alcohol: 5.20% by weight and 6.5% by volume
Primary fermentation: 8 days in glass
Secondary fermentation: 84 days in glass (see explanation above)
Bottled after a total fermentation time of 92 days.
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STYLE DESCRIPTION AND TASTING NOTES
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The ale is medium bodied and dark, almost opaque, in color with low hop
bitterness and medium-high maltiness. The Kent Golding really comes through
in the nose but is not overpowering. There's still plenty of malty flavor in
this one. I did not use any clarifiers yet the brew is crystal clear.
Perhaps the extended stay in the secondary is responsible for that.
My original objective was to brew a Porter in the same vein as Young's
Original London Porter. This brew tastes exactly like the Young's, IMHO.
After bottle conditioning, the ale should have a medium-low level of
effervescence, with a nice creamy head. The taste is malty with just enough
hop bitterness to slightly counteract the high sweetness of the malt and
molasses yet still retaining a good malty taste.
Label is in data lib 15 - BEAR.GIF
Enjoy!
John Patterson - 76177,137