Sticky Sweet Maple Honey Porter

February 7 2010   No Commented

StickySweetMapleHoneyPorter Today I brewed a recipe of my own devices, a Sticky Sweet Maple Honey Porter. The intent of this was to have big porter with sweet tones of coffee, maple, and floral tones from the Fuggles hops and honey. In what follows is the recipes, images from the brew day, and the brew particulars.

Fermentables
7 lbs. - Dark Malt Extract Syrup
1.5 lbs. -  Honey
1.25 lbs. - Maple Syrup
1 lbs. -  Rye Malt
1 lbs. - American Black Patent

Hops
1.0 oz. - Fuggles 4.6% AA
0.5 oz. - Fuggles 4.6% AA
0.5 oz. - Fuggles 4.6% AA

Yeast
White Labs Irish Ale (WLP004)

Steep black patent and rye for 30 minutes at ~155 F

Milled Rye Malt Start of the steep - not dark at all  At the end of the steep - Dark as Sin

Add dark malt extract and 1oz of Fuggles hops. Bring up to a boil.

Adding Dark Malt Extract Fuggles hop pellets  Start of the Boil

Add honey and 0.5 oz. of Fuggles hops at 15 minutes.

Add maple syrup and the remaining 0.5 oz. of hops at 2 minutes.

Modern Brewing Chilling the wort Sticky Sweet in the fermenter

 

Original Gravity
1.078 
Final Gravity
1.022 
Color
21° SRM
(Brown to Dark Brown)
Bitterness
4.6 HBU
14.5 IBU
Alcohol
7.5% A.B.V.
5.8% A.B.W.
Calories
259 per 12 oz.

Postscript: The fermentation is healthy to say the least.

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