Anchor Porter Clone
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Batch Size (gallons) | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Efficiency | 70% | ||||||||||||||||||||
Recipe type | All Grain | ||||||||||||||||||||
Style | 12B. Robust Porter | ||||||||||||||||||||
Original Gravity | 1.070 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Final Gravity | 1.014 | ||||||||||||||||||||
ABV | 7.35% (basic) / 7.37% (advanced) [what's this?] | ||||||||||||||||||||
IBU | 39.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Color | 31.5 SRM | ||||||||||||||||||||
Boil Time | 60 min | ||||||||||||||||||||
Yeast | Lallemand - (Nottingham Yeast) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Directions | I mash this at 152 for 1 hour, dough-in at 164 with 4.3 gallons and sparge at 170 with 4.7 gallons. I also boil for 1hour. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Fermentation notes | I generally use the dry Nottingham yeast for this and just 1 pack rehydrated about 30ish minutes before pitching. I ferment at 67-68 and it is usually done and in the keg between 2-3 weeks. For carbing I just leave it on 30 psi for 36 -48 hours and then serve at around 7-8 psi. Another variation I have done with this recipe has been aging the beer on coffee grounds for about 1 week. What I do is take 1 K-Cup per gallon and cut the top off and pour the coffee straight into the fermenter and siphon off carefully after 1 week. "Cold steeping" the coffee like this increases the coffee flavors of this beer without adding any additional bitterness. It is really good with or without the coffee though. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tasting notes | This beer is a very good clone of Anchor Porter, although in a blind side-by-side taste test with multiple tasters it was able to be identified. So despite not being a perfect clone, it is the same vein as the Anchor Porter. It has very nice dark chocolate and coffee aromas and flavors, it has a mouth feel that isn't to heavy (making it very easy to have a few) and a nice substantial fluffy head. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Credits | I believe this recipe was taken from BrewToad originally, but I have brewed it so much now I consider it my own. It is always very well received and almost always having to be rebrewed to be back on tap at the house. |
Recipe Reviews
Type: Brewed this Beer
This is probably not a fair review of this recipe because the grain bill and yeast are only thing that remained unchanged for the batch I brewed. My LHBS was out of Cascade hops (WTF?), so I used East Kent Goldings in place of the Cascades. I also adjusted the amount of hops down to .75 oz of each to get the IBU down to around 40.
Great roasted flavor with the tiniest bit of alcohol bite. I can see how coffee would really round out this recipe. I'll definitely brew this one again with coffee and a higher IBU.
posted by Snoballz on 2/26/2015
This is probably not a fair review of this recipe because the grain bill and yeast are only thing that remained unchanged for the batch I brewed. My LHBS was out of Cascade hops (WTF?), so I used East Kent Goldings in place of the Cascades. I also adjusted the amount of hops down to .75 oz of each to get the IBU down to around 40.
Great roasted flavor with the tiniest bit of alcohol bite. I can see how coffee would really round out this recipe. I'll definitely brew this one again with coffee and a higher IBU.
posted by Snoballz on 2/26/2015
This all grain Robust Porter homebrew recipe was submitted by skaggs77.