Ale to the Chief: Honey Porter
If you follow my blog or SheppyBrew's Facebook page, you may have caught that the White House emailed me two home-brew recipes (see White House #HomeBrew Recipes on my blog).
Both recipes were extract batches, and to this point I have not seen all-grain versions posted. They may be out there, I just have not seen them. I decided to convert the recipes to all-grain.
There is some important missing information on the recipes (OG and IBUs), but I went ahead and plugged the recipe in, making a few assumptions based on what I would have done. I also designed for 5.5 gallons into the fermentor and a 90 minute boil, as is my customary process. The resulting all-grain recipe for the White House Honey Porter is listed below.
I actually don't know if I'll make this recipe. I will probably brew it sometime, but with all the other beers I "have" to make, who knows when I would be able to get around to it.
Feel free to leave comments about the recipe below. As I mentioned, I made assumptions on OG / ABV and boil volumes that are probably not right. If you have better information (or even have speculations on this stuff), I would love to hear it.
You can find what else I wrote about "Obama Beer" on my blog: http://blog.ericshepard.com/search/label/Obama%20Beer
Both recipes were extract batches, and to this point I have not seen all-grain versions posted. They may be out there, I just have not seen them. I decided to convert the recipes to all-grain.
There is some important missing information on the recipes (OG and IBUs), but I went ahead and plugged the recipe in, making a few assumptions based on what I would have done. I also designed for 5.5 gallons into the fermentor and a 90 minute boil, as is my customary process. The resulting all-grain recipe for the White House Honey Porter is listed below.
I actually don't know if I'll make this recipe. I will probably brew it sometime, but with all the other beers I "have" to make, who knows when I would be able to get around to it.
Feel free to leave comments about the recipe below. As I mentioned, I made assumptions on OG / ABV and boil volumes that are probably not right. If you have better information (or even have speculations on this stuff), I would love to hear it.
You can find what else I wrote about "Obama Beer" on my blog: http://blog.ericshepard.com/search/label/Obama%20Beer
| Ale to the Porter --- batch 1 |
| Style | Robust Porter | Batch Size | 5.50 gal | |||
| Type | All Grain | Boil Size | |
7.99 gal | ||
| Brewhouse Efficiency | |
75.00 | |
Boil Time | |
90 minutes |
Recipe Characteristics
| Recipe Gravity | 1.057 SG | Estimated FG | 1.012 SG | ||||
| Recipe Bitterness | 34.0 IBUs (Rager) | Alcohol by Volume | 5.8 % | ||||
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| Recipe Color | 23.5 SRM |
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Ingredients
| Amt | Name | Type | # | %/IBU |
| 7 lbs 12.0 oz | Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) | Grain | 1 | 67.8 % |
| 1 lbs 2.0 oz | Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM) | Grain | 2 | 9.8 % |
| 14.0 oz | Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) | Grain | 3 | 7.7 % |
| 8.0 oz | Black (Patent) Malt (500.0 SRM) | Grain | 4 | 4.4 % |
| 3.0 oz | Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) | Grain | 5 | 1.6 % |
| 0.38 oz | Columbus (Tomahawk) [17.00 %] - Boil 45.0 min | Hop | 6 | 21.7 IBUs |
| 0.38 oz | Columbus (Tomahawk) [17.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min | Hop | 7 | 12.3 IBUs |
| 0.50 tsp | Yeast Nutrient (Boil 10.0 mins) | Other | 8 | - |
| 0.50 oz | Hallertauer [4.80 %] - Boil 0.0 min | Hop | 9 | 0.0 IBUs |
| 1.0 pkg | Nottingham (Danstar #-) [23.66 ml] | Yeast | 10 | - |
| 5.00 ml | Clarity-Ferm (Primary 2.0 weeks) | Fining | 11 | - |
| 1 lbs | Honey (1.0 SRM) | Sugar | 12 | 8.7 % |
Mash Profile
| Name | Description | Step Temperature | Step Time |
| Mash In | Add 13.04 qt of water at 168.2 F | 156.0 F | 45 min |
Batch sparge with 2 steps (1.99gal, 3.99gal) of 168.0 F water
Recipe Notes
Based on White House Honey Porter recipe converted to all-grain.
The White House did not publish their OG / FG or IBUs, so I am sort of guessing on those.
I adjusted the boil time on the first bittering addition as 17% AA doesn't convert well to 10 HBU. I think it should be about the same IBU, and even at 45 minutes there was not much flavor.
I also went with a 90 minute total boil as that is my usual process.
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