Today was brewday AG#7 robust porter

beechwood · Feb 19, 2016

Ok so today was brewday, first one this year. I went for a robust porter similar to guinness single stout porter of 1883. Well along those lines anyway.

Aimed for 10 lts but slighty over sparged, got 11.5 lts

Marris otter 2380g (85%)
Amber malt 280g (10%)
Black malt 140g (5%)

Mashed at 66c for 90 mins

Boiled for 60 mins with: 25g challanger @ 60 (AA 6.5%) IBU's 44

Og was 1060 (eff better than expected over 70%)

Pitched gervin gv-12 @ 20c, will leave for 8 days to ferment.

This is my first attempt at a porter, hopefully will be nice.
Anyone tried guinness west indies porter? Really like that beer, this beer shouldn't be too far out from it. :thumb:

cmwood64 · Feb 21, 2016

Sounds good to me. Should be nice if it's similar to the Guinness West Indies Porter. Good luck.

beechwood · Feb 21, 2016

Cheers.... I'll keep you posted :smile:

beechwood · Feb 28, 2016

Checked the fg yesterday hoping to bottle it up, but after 8days it seems to have got stuck at 1024 which is a bit of a pain. Anyway i stirred up the yeast with a sterilised spoon and put it back in to the water bath at slightly higher temp, it has started bubbling again so hopefully will bottle in a week if its dropped down enough (usually with gv-12 i can get it down 1010)

beechwood · Mar 5, 2016

Bottled this one up today after another week of being in the fv, even tho it started bubbling a week ago the fg hasn't changed since a week ago so i decided to bottle anyway. I guess i didn't oxygenate the wort enough. So fg was 1024 which makes it about 4.8%
It has got a nice flavour and a bit of sweetness comes through, will leave to mature for at least 3 weeks before trying the first one.
Next brew will be a stout i think :thumb:

beechwood · Mar 28, 2016

So its been three weeks and its rather nice. Lots of roasted coffee flavour and smell which is good, quite similar to guinness west indies porter. I will keep a couple for a good few months to see how it improves :drink::hat: