One of my porter'ish recipes

[homebrewer79]

Recently I sent one of my beers to Drsmurto as a thank you because he was kind enough to part with a couple of packs of his dry yeast, cheers mate the munich is working away as we speak . He suggested I post the recipie so others could give it a whirl, so here it is

1x Beermakers Old
1.5kg DDME
100g Dex (just to up the alc/vol)
200g Maltodextrin (I only put this in to get rid of what I had, but ask Doc, the head does not go)
300g choc malt steeped 30 mins
5g chinook @60 min
5g chinook @20 min
5g chinook @5 min
yeast US-05 (I actually used 2 kit yeasts but would normally use US-05)

Hops are boiled in DDME, and the rest (not the kit) added just before the 5 min addition

Made to 23, est OG- 1058, est FG-1019, Alc/vol 5.9%.

For some reason my gravities were quite different and I ended up with 5% alc/vol but hey, it's a fairly good drop for a kit brew.
Next time I make it (in about 2 weeks) I will use LDME and up the choc to 500g and will finish off the hopping with some fuggles or EK goldings.

Hope this gets you drinkin

[Lachy]

Ooo, interesting. I've got some choc malt and some leftover chinook. I'm getting back into dark ales after the Winter Lagerfest '08, so I might give this a go...

[drsmurto]

Ive used amarillo and cascade in porters before so reckon chinook will work fine. Being the hop head that i am i would have gone for 20g additions at 20 and 5 mins as i didnt get much in the way of the none too subtle passionfruit you get from chinook. Next time maybe...

Am surprised that you got so much choc/coffee oomph into the beer with only 300g.....

I have > 500g each of fuggles and EKG - they go very well in dark ales/porters!

And yes, i did enjoy this beer, nice big head and i got a fair way of choc/coffee out of it. Nice easy drinker sitting next to the fire at this time of year!