Merv's Liquid Sex

1/28/12 - WHO Brewship Brewoff - Gold Medal
2/12/12 - Biermeisters Homebrewers Competition - Gold Medal

Additional Steps for this batch:
Night before:

• Crush 1/2 of roasted grains separately and cold steep in 3 gallons of filtered water (subtract this from water added to mash tun)
  
• Crush remaining grains separately into trash bag
  
• Fill HLT with filtered water
  
• Measure out water (less 3 gal) for mash tun
  
  Day of (addl steps):
  
• At 5 min, draw off .5 gal of wort to stock pot. Add 8oz of Hershey's cocoa powder and boil for 5 min to break apart the powder
  
• Chill and split batch into standard robust porter and spiced robust porter (5.25gal into standard and 4.75gal into spiced)
  
  Kegging:
  
• Draw 1L sample of spiced porter and use eyedropper full of hazelnut extract (into 100ml samples) until a balanced amount is reached. Scale up the optimal amount and add to full batch (remembering how much wort remains).
  
  Bottle for Competition:
  
• Bottle 2 weeks before competition.