Found at my house today....UPDATE Dec 31...first pour

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So I spent the day digging in a pile of grains today and this is what I found...

In 3-5 weeks it will be Vanilla-Cocoa Bean Porter. Ten gallons to be exact. I was hoping it would be ready for Christmas but it is looking like maybe I'll crack the first bottle on New Years Eve. If its not good enough yet, I'll wait another week and crack another.


UPDATE: Dec 26. So this thing didn't stop fermenting until Wednesday and on Thursday last week, I transferred these bad boys over to secondaries and measured the gravity. 1.020. Perfect. :thumbsup: So then, of course I drank the beer from the hydrometer. Hands down, the best tasting porter I've ever had. Better than any store bought piece of crap beer...and that's not carbonated and the vanilla hasn't been added. The cocoa beans give it a really subtle, yet strong enough to tell that it's cocoa, taste. With the vanilla in it and carbonated it's going to be a KILLER. When I pour my first glass, I'll post pics.

UPDATE: Dec 31. Bottled it today. The vanilla is a really neat taste in a porter. Really good. Now the three week wait for the bottle condition.

UPDATE: Jan 18. Couldn't wait any longer. Poured the first glass. A little under carbonated and not a lot of head forming/retention. Still SOOOOOOOOOOO good. Two-three more weeks should do it. Next up, extract Irish Red for St Patty's day and then an AG Strawberry Blonde for spring.
 

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Re: Found at my house today

Bushido Dude said:
YUMMY!!!! Double fermented? Im down here in binghamton....need help let me know!!! :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:
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We aren't sure yet if we are going to rack to the secondary or not. We haven't decided. When the bubbling stops we will decide. Either add the vanilla beans and let soak a day, then bottle. Or, rack to the secondary for a week or two, add the vanilla beans then bottle. What do you think?

Brewed in Albany, btw. Never brewed at Mom's house. She's in Endicott.
 

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Historyhound said:
Was debating stopping for a beer after work tonight. Ya got me drooling. Stopping is now a must. Thx
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Glad I could help!
 

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Pass the glass!!
 

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birdman said:
Pass the glass!!
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Just went in the primary about 5 hours ago. It will be at least 3 weeks. 5 weeks if we put in a secondary.
 

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Looks rich!
Formulating your own recipes is great.
I always rack into a secondary,
get it off that pile of dormant/dead yeast as soon as it slows,
I take it that's a full mash, lot of work but the end product justifies the means :hello2:
 

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That looks real nice. I'll take a gallon! :hello2: :headbang:
 

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Nice!!! Let me know if you need any help finishing it off...I'm in Clifton Park :tongue3:
 

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Man, my mouth started watering as soon as I seen the photo!! I brewed up some really good IPA awhile back, think I will try my hand at a Porter next time.......Got some super-duper vanilla-pomegranate wine all bottled up, just waiting on New Year's, though......
 

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creekwalker said:
Man, my mouth started watering as soon as I seen the photo!! I brewed up some really good IPA awhile back, think I will try my hand at a Porter next time.......Got some super-duper vanilla-pomegranate wine all bottled up, just waiting on New Year's, though......
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Here it is if you want to give it a try...steelheadwill, it wasn't AG, but there were some grains.

10 gallons (half everything here for 5 gallons)
1 2 lbs of carafa II grains (I guess those are black patent malt without the husk)
6.6 lbs of light malt extract
6.6 lbs of dark malt extract
1 lb of DME
1 lb of maltodextrin
8 oz of crushed cocoa beans
4 oz of Northern Brewer hops
2 oz of Tettnanger hops
1 tblspoon irish moss
2 vanilla beans
1 packet Fermentis US-04 yeast
(recipe calls for US-05 but the 04 is supposed to be more English style)

Steep carafa grains at 155 F for 15 minutes
Bring to boil and add sugars and Northern brewer hops
with 30 left in boil add 2 oz of cocoa beans
with 15 left in boil add irish moss
with 5 left in boil add Tettnanger hops
with 1 left in boil add 2 oz cocoa beans
chill and pitch yeast
ferment at 55 deg (in my basement)

shuck and steep vanilla beans in 100 proof whiskey 48 hours before bottling and put in fermenter 24 hours before bottling (this can be done in either the primary or secondary although recommendations are coming in to rack and do it in the secondary).

prime and rack to keg or bottle

If you want just a regular porter, remove the maltodextrin, vanilla and cocoa beans.
 

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Nice! I have 10 gallons (2- different carboys) of porter in my fermenters right now, too! Used two different yeasts to see what sort of influlences they have on the final beer. About to rack one to a secondary on some French oak chips and keg the other one for consumption!

I switched to all-grain brewing about 10 years ago, but it is all beer! :hello2:

Look forward to hearing how it turns out!
 

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Lookin said:
Nice! I have 10 gallons (2- different carboys) of porter in my fermenters right now, too! Used two different yeasts to see what sort of influlences they have on the final beer. About to rack one to a secondary on some French oak chips and keg the other one for consumption!

I switched to all-grain brewing about 10 years ago, but it is all beer! :hello2:

Look forward to hearing how it turns out!
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I've tried a little all grain and haven't had any luck with efficiency. I have to figure out what I'm doing wrong before continuing with the AG. I also want to figure out a better way to mash. The 10 gallon cooler just didn't work out.
 

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Hey Skrimpy, that nectar is going to be a bit thick for a while with that much grain. I think you will be drinking that one in about 90 to 180 days from now and you wont to to share that with anyone cause it will be darned tastey! I had a friend that made one of those heavy porters and I hid one from him for 5 months as he drank the rest before it had aged to its fullest robust flavor. He thanked me for it after he opened it as it was the smoothest beer we had ever tasted. I also noticed you have those carboys on a concrete floor from the looks of the picture. Oh grasshopper, one slip and bye, bye beer much sadness and wailing not a good thing. The Plumber,
 

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