2018 Chocolate-Peanut Butter Porter
August 2018 – I love Duclaw’s Sweet Baby Jesus and Terapin’s Liquid Bliss – chocolate peanut butter porters! So much that I had to make one!
Ingredients:
| Malt | 6 lbs dark malt extract |
| Steeping Grains | 1 lb crystal malt light 4SL 0.7 lbs pale chocolate malt 0.25 black malts |
| Hops | 1.75 oz East Ken Golding (boiling) 0.75 oz Fuggle (boiling) 0.75 East Ken Golding (finishing) |
| Yeast | Safale US 05 |
| Flavorings | 8 oz peanut butter flavoring 5 oz chocolate flavoring |
| Priming | 3/4 cup priming sugar |
Method:
| Put steeping grains in mesh bag. Heat 2.5 gallons water to 155 F and steep the grains for 20 minutes. Let bag drain for 10 minutes.
Brought wort to rolling boil. Shut off heat. Added 3 lbs DME, stirring to dissolve. Bring back to boil. Added 1.75 oz East Kent Golding hops. Boiled 45 minutes. Added 0.75 oz Fuggle hops. Boiled 15 minutes, turned off heat, added 0.75 oz East Kent Golding hops. Stirred in remaining DME. See note below. Poured wort into primary, topped up to 5.5 gallons. Sprinkled yeast on top. |
07/11/2018 SG 1.050 |
| Racked, put into 5 gallon carboy + 1 gallon jug. | 07/18/2018 SG 1.013 |
| Racked. Added 8 oz peanut butter flavoring and 5 oz chocolate flavoring. Added priming sugar. Bottled. | 08/11/2018 SG 1.013 |
Notes:
| Yield | 57x 12 oz bottles |
| Alcohol | 5.0% |
| Brewing Notes | Stirring the final malt in did not work well. It clumped badly. I’ll do something different next time. |
| 09/15/2018 | This has been a successful experiment. It’s still in need of aging, but the taste is great! I expect that at the 6 month mark this will be great! The big question is: how much will be left at that mark? |
| 10/15/2018 | Another month has shown that it has great flavor. I need to make this again soon … mostly so some will survive to age long enough for a good taste test. |