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Offline Black Lion Homebrewery

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Baby Beer - Imp. Porter Recipe Advice
« on: April 14, 2020, 08:56:46 pm »
I'm planning on brewing a 10% imperial/reserve porter to celebrate my second child. I think I've got the recipe nailed down, but was hoping I could get some other eyes on it before I place an order. Any advice or comments would be appreciated!

STATS:
Original Gravity: 1.093
Final Gravity: 1.022
ABV: 10.24%
IBU (tinseth): 42.02
SRM (daniels): 35.66

FERMENTABLES:
12 lb - Pale 2-Row (58.5%)
3 lb - Munich Light (14.6%)
2 lb - Brown (9.8%)
2 lb - German - Chocolate Rye (9.8%)
1 lb - Caramel Malt - 80L (4.9%)
0.5 lb - Caramel Malt - 40L (2.4%)

HOPS:
1 oz - Galena (13.3%) 90 min
1 oz - Fuggles, (4.3%) 5 min
1 oz - Fuggles (4.3%) Flameout

Wyeast - London Ale 1028

Offline spurviance

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Re: Baby Beer - Imp. Porter Recipe Advice
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2020, 08:19:28 pm »
Recipe looks solid to me.  Have you brewed this before?  Are you practiced at brewing and fermenting high ABV beers?
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Offline Black Lion Homebrewery

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Re: Baby Beer - Imp. Porter Recipe Advice
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2020, 08:52:18 am »
Thanks.  I haven't brewed this before. This is a scaled up and tweaked brown porter recipe that I have brewed.  I've brewed a few high abv beers before (a large barleywine and dopplebock).  I'm planning on brewing a mild ale before and pitching directly on the yeast cake. 

Offline jeffy

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Re: Baby Beer - Imp. Porter Recipe Advice
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2020, 10:41:16 am »
The base Imperial Porter from Denny's BVIP is very good.  You should be able to find that recipe all over the web and compare what you have to it.
Jeff Gladish, Tampa (989.3, 175.1 Apparent Rennarian)
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