True To Style – All Grain Recipe Kits #10 English Porter

These all grain kits are all designed with one thing in mind, making great tasting beer at affordable prices. We’ve built and created this range to offer our first “core” range of all grain kits that represent either great ingredients, methods or beer styles which we adore.

All of them are 23 litre batches and come in at sensible strengths for the mid week beers or sessions at the weekend! Read our full blog post on this range here!

This deep dark complex porter features a host of wonderful roasted and caramel malts for a multilayered finished beer. The use of bramling cross hops brings notes of red berries and hedge rows to mind. To drink, this beer is happy either on a cooler late summer evening or the depths of winter, by the fireside.

The absence of chocolate malt aids in the beer being less astringent thanks to Carafa 3s de-husked nature. The other malts in the grain bill work together to drive notes of dried fruit, winter berries and dark chocolate.

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Ingredients Included

Simpsons Malt – Aromatic Malt
Simpsons Malt – Heritage Crystal Malt
Weyermann Carafa Special Type 3
Simpsons Malt – DRC (Double Roast Crystal)
Simpsons Malt – Munich Malt
Simpsons Malt – Best Pale Ale Malt
Bramling Cross T90 Pellets (60 grams)
LALLEMAND London – English Style Ale Yeast – 11g (1 packs)

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Method

Beer Style (main): British Ales
Beer Style (sub): Robust Porter
Batch Size: 23l
Original Gravity: 1.051
Final Gravity: 1.011
ABV %: 5
IBU: 24
Mash efficiency: 80

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 65
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60
Temperature °C (Step 2): 75
Length (mins) (Step 2): 10

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Hop / kettle additions and timing:

20g Bramling Cross @ 60min
20g Bramling Cross @ 30min
20g Bramling Cross @ 5min

Yeast: LalBrew London
Fermentation temperature/steps: 20c 7-10 days

Secondary additions:

Add kettle finings to aid in clarity of the beer.

Comments:

Once brewed, this recipe benefits from some time in the bottle or keg to condition. At least 4 weeks but after 8 it will be at its finest. Fermented slightly warmer to aid in developing complex flavours and aroma.