Lutzen's Pleasing Porter

Title:
Lutzen's Pleasing Porter

Yield:
1 Servings

Categories:
Beer,
Brewing




Ingredients:





 3 1/3 lb Can John Bull unhopped Dark


 3 1/3 lb Bag Northwestern Amber Malt


          Extract


 1 1/2 oz Clusters 6.9% alpha (boil)


     1 oz Cascades 5.6% alpha


          (finish)


          Ale yeast (your choice)






 Bring  2 gallons of water and malt to a boil. Add 1/2 ounce Clusters  at


 beginning  of boil, 20 minutes, and 40 minutes. After 60 min.  turn  off


 heat,  and  add Cascades. At this point it was late in  the  evening,  I


 poured the wort into my sanitized bottling bucket and brought the  quan-


 tity up to 5 gals. and stuck the whole thing in the beverage  refrigera-


 tor.  Next morning I siphoned off the wort into the  fermentor,  leaving


 all  those hop particles behind, pitched the yeast. Put on the blow  off


 tube, and put the fermenter back in the refrigerator. I had the tempera-


 ture  set at 50 degrees. After a week, I replaced the blow tube with  an


 airlock, and bottled after a month of fermenting. Very smooth, nice hop


 balance, but a bit heavy for a summer drink.  Will try to save the rest for


 this fall. This might be considered a lager due to the refrigeration. It


 was only done because the ambient  temperature of my basement "brewing


 room" hits 75-80 Degrees during the summer heat. I brewed this in early


 spring as an ale (65  degrees)  and  strangely enough, they taste very


 similar. (Drink a bottle of one version,  wait, drink a bottle of the


 other, results: Who cares. Both are great.) Original Gravity: 1.052 Final


 Gravity: 1.016 Primary Ferment: 1 month at 50 degrees


 


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 From:                                 Date: 05/27


 


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