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Breakfast at the North Pole

261 calories 28.6 g 12 oz
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Beer Stats
Method: All Grain
Style: American Porter
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 5.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Pre Boil Size: 6.5 gallons
Pre Boil Gravity: 1.066 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 70% (brew house)
Source: Dr. Colin Beech
Calories: 261 calories (Per 12oz)
Carbs: 28.6 g (Per 12oz)
Created: Monday December 17th 2018
1.078
1.022
7.4%
32.9
32.7
5.5
n/a
 
Fermentables
Amount Fermentable Cost PPG °L Bill %
8 lb United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale8 lb Maris Otter Pale 38 3.75 47.8%
4 lb American - Smoked Malt4 lb Smoked Malt 37 5 23.9%
1 lb American - Caramel / Crystal 60L1 lb Caramel / Crystal 60L 34 60 6%
1 lb Flaked Barley1 lb Flaked Barley 32 2.2 6%
1 lb United Kingdom - Chocolate1 lb Chocolate 34 425 6%
1 lb United Kingdom - Munich1 lb Munich 37 6 6%
0.50 lb American - Carapils (Dextrine Malt)0.5 lb Carapils (Dextrine Malt) 33 1.8 3%
0.25 lb American - Black Malt0.25 lb Black Malt 28 500 1.5%
16.75 lbs / $ 0.00
 
Hops
Amount Variety Cost Type AA Use Time IBU Bill %
1 oz Challenger1 oz Challenger Hops Pellet 8.5 Boil 60 min 25.45 50%
1 oz East Kent Goldings1 oz East Kent Goldings Hops Pellet 5 Boil 15 min 7.43 50%
2 oz / $ 0.00
 
Other Ingredients
Amount Name Cost Type Use Time
2 oz Maple Extract Flavor Secondary 7 days
2 oz Dry-beaned Coffee Flavor Secondary 2 days
6 oz Bacon Tincture Flavor Kegging 0 min.
 
Yeast
White Labs - London Ale Yeast WLP013
Amount:
1 Each
Cost:
Attenuation (avg):
71%
Flocculation:
Medium
Optimum Temp:
66 - 71 °F
Starter:
Yes
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Target Water Profile
London (Porter, dark ales)
Ca+2 Mg+2 Na+ Cl- SO4-2 HCO3-
100 5 35 60 50 265
Mash Chemistry and Brewing Water Calculator
 
Mash Guidelines
Amount Description Type Start Temp Target Temp Time
20.9 qt Strike water/Mash: 168.4F Infusion -- 152 °F 60 min
8.9 qt Mash-out Infusion -- 212 °F 10 min
5.2 qt Sparge it good... Fly Sparge -- 170 °F 60 min
Starting Mash Thickness: 1.25 qt/lb
Quick Water Requirements
Water Gallons  Quarts
Strike water volume at mash thickness of 1.25 qt/lb 5.23 20.9  
Mash volume with grains 6.57 26.3  
Grain absorption losses -2.09 -8.4  
Remaining sparge water volume (equipment estimates 4.18 g | 16.7 qt) 3.61 14.4  
Mash Lauter Tun losses -0.25 -1  
Pre boil volume (equipment estimates 7.08 g | 28.3 qt) 6.5 26  
Boil off losses -1.5 -6  
Hops absorption losses (first wort, boil, aroma) -0.08 -0.3  
Post boil Volume 5.5 22  
Going into fermentor 5.5 22  
Total: 8.84 35.4
Equipment Profile Used: System Default
 
Notes

This is an English/Canadian inspired imperial porter, with smacks of coffee, maple, and bacon. Balancing these flavors is the trick, and so there’s a number of things going on here. The water profile is that of a London porter, so Ca+2:100, Mg+2:5, Na+:35, Cl-:60, SO4-2:50, and HCO3-:265. For the base recipe, a solid imperial porter recipe was selected, strong, malty, and toasty, with generous hops for a porter brewed in the colonies. For the bacon flavor, six strips of hickory bacon from a local farm are fried extra crisp, and placed in 1 cup of vodka (or to cover bacon); mixture is allowed to sit for 2 weeks (agitate daily), when the fat is skimmed; freeze overnight, skim the fat, and then use coffee filters to remove tincture. FAT MUST BE REMOVED or head retention will suffer, though the flaked barley in the recipe is there to help you out... Tincture is added at kegging, so preparing it on brew day is ideal. For the maple flavor, actual maple syrup is problematic at best, so a maple extract is used; a 2 oz. bottle should suffice added to secondary. Finally, coffee flavor is added by dry-beaning, which warrants caution. 2 oz. of a mocha style, French roast, or espresso style bean are warranted here, the lighter the roast, the less oil to hurt head retention. Have the barista use the coarsest grind on the 2 oz. of beans, then toss in a sanitized mueslin sack, and add for the last 2 days in secondary. Too much, and the coffee will overpower the rest of the brew. Tread carefully on the ice at the North Pole…

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