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Baton Rouge Brown Porter – Brewed June

June 17th, 2012

So our Brasseurs a la Maison club competition is porter for the sake of sending the beer to the club competition in the AHA.    This was coincidental to my latest decision to go on a British style brewing rampage so I’m pushing the ESB and sweet stout until July although I’m ordering all the ingredients for all of the brews.    I love the English style brown porters especially the Taddy porter from Samuel Smith.   I’ll be brewing Jamil’s with a slight variation in chocolate and crystal malts.   I want more actual chocolate taste so I’ll be using pale chocolate.   Pale chocolate is slightly sweet so I’ll reduce the crystal addition.   Hopefully it’ll work out and be a a very nice porter.  Salt additions will likely involve calcium carbonate, gypsum and/or Epson salts.

Here is the original brew game plan:

Mash Water Modification For 5 gallons prepared mash water volume with the intention of using 4 of it.  75% Baton Rouge water 25% distilled with 3/4 teaspoon chalk, 1/4 teaspoon Epson salt and 1/3 teaspoon calcium chloride.   If we drop the volume to 4 gallons prepared the chalk will become 1/2 teaspoon and the calcium chloride 1/4 teaspoon.   1 teaspoon of Irish Moss rehydrated.

How it went down:

Everything went very smooth.  I hit the mash temperature right but for some reason before I could run off enough liquid the gravity fell below 1.010 which caused me to stop it there.   Original gravity was about 1.049 which is slightly lower but I think it’s because the grain ran clean fast.   I may need to adjust my efficiency or just run off more wort until I get to the 1.007 area.

After 10 days the final gravity was at 1.013 which tends to make me think adding a little DME would’ve been a good idea in this situation.  However the results I got resulted in a great tasting beer with a nice balance of chocolate, roast, nutty and sweet flavors.   Currently carbonating.

Name: Baton Rouge Brown Porter
Description: A classic porter.   Mash at 153F for 60 minutes..   ferment at 67F.   the chocolate is pale chocolate and the carafa is because i dont have time to age the acrid roast maltS.  1 teaspoon irish moss and modify water for carbonate profile using 3/4 tsp chalk, 1/4 tsp epson and 1/4 tsp calcium chloride.   4 gallons mash water with 5 prepared.   btr water
Post Boil Volume: 6.00
Pre Boil Volume: 7.00
Mash Time: 60.00
Boil Time: 75.00
Desired Original Gravity: 1.052
Desired Final Gravity: 1.013
Calculated Likely ABV% Based on Specified Gravities: 5.120
Users Targeted ABV%: 5.000
Desired CO2 Volumes: 2
Anticipated Brewhouse Efficiency: 70
Likely Original Gravity at 6.00 Based on Grains and Efficiency: @ 70% = 334 GU = 1.056

Grain: Caramel/Crystal Malt – 40L qty:0.5
Grain: Pale Malt, Maris Otter qty:10
Grain: Brown Malt qty:1
Grain: Chocolate Malt qty:0.5
Grain: Caramel/Crystal Malt – 20L qty:0.5
Grain: Carafa II qty:0.5

Hop : Fuggles qty:2 at:60 mins. AA=4.50
Hop : Fuggles qty:1 at:10 mins. AA=4.50

Yeast: Burton Ale qty:2 Max temp: 73.0 Min temp: 68.0

Style Name: Brown Porter (Porter)
Baton Rouge Brown Porter Pocket Brewer XML Code»


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