Porter Bottling Day Jan 30, 2010

Bottling the porter was very exciting. We have much anticipation for this one since our hefe turned out so well.


The porter didn't have near the foam from fermentation at the top as the hefeweizen we brewed.










The bottom of the 6 gallon carboy doesn't have near the build-up of sludge either.















Next, I mixed the corn sugar into water for the last step before bottling,......

while Tim sanitized all the bottles.

Then we siphoned the beer into the 5 gallon and mixed the sugar into it.

And finally my favorite part, the taste testing!!

Yep, it's ready for the bottle

Beginning Porter Brew

Date: January 10, 2010

Beer: Clone of "Flag Porter"

Ingredient Substitutes: 6oz of British Brown was substituted for 3oz Medium Crystal and 3oz CaravPils. 1/2 oz Fuggles flavor hop was substituted for 1/2 oz of East Kent Goldings.

Log: Bring 1 gal. water to 169 degrees. Remove water from heat steep the grains. Grains steeped for 23 min. and removed at 138 degrees. Add 1/2 gal water that was heated to 150 degrees. Sparge the grains with the 1/2 gal of water. Add 1 quart to reach a total of 1.5 gal. and bring to a boil. Add DME, 1.4 oz of flavor hops, and 1 gal. of water to reach 2.5 gal. total. Once it reaches a boil set timeer for 45 min. At 45 min add 1/2 oz aroma hops, 1 tsp Irish Moss and reset timer to 15min. After the total 1 hr cook immediately remove to an ice bath to the depth of the wort. After 15 min. pour the cooled wort into the carboy for the first fermentation. Yeast pitched at 66 degrees.