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London Porter Recipe

London Porter Recipe For Home Brewers

This is the recipe for our London Porter. We don’t mind publishing these, there’s no ‘secret sauce’ to these recipes and part of the pleasure in brewing beer is sharing – so we are sharing all our recipes. If you brew the beer let us know, and if you want to buy a recipe kit it’s here: London Porter Recipe Kit

All of our recipe kits are designed to use a starting volume of 23lt, which should yield 18lt into the keg or bottles, and a brewhouse efficiency of 70%. This is the complete recipe, it can be scaled to suit any batch size.

Porter is an intriguing beer style and we were very pleased to design a kit from a customer request; and we found ourselves so intrigued by the style that we brewed it in the shed and immediately installed it as a firm favourite. It’s like a stout without the rasping bitterness that makes stout such a ‘marmite’ style – people seem to love it or hate it and there’s not much middle ground. Porter, or at least our version of it, is a lot softer with a real mellow bitterness and lots of deep chocolate notes; a cracking beer.

Note that the dry hop addition is very optional with this one – we don’t add it when we brew but it’s included in the kit; up to you!

London Porter Recipe

Original Gravity 1.045   Final Gravity 1.011  ABV 4.5%  IBU 26.1 SRM  32

Fermentables:

2.5kg Maris Otter – Classic English pale ale malt

250gm Caramalt – For golden colour and sweetness

350gm Torrefied Wheat – To promote head retention

350gm Malted Naked Oats – For a fuller ‘mouthfeel’

250gm Crystal Malt – Colour and sweetness

350gm Chocolate Malt – Colour, sweetness and depth

Hops:

Fuggles – Classic English hop

Yeast:

Safale S04

Mash Guidelines:

The kit is designed to use 22.5 litres of water (kettle volume) which should give 18-19 litres into the fermenter.

Mash temp 66°C for 60 min

Boil 60 min

Hop Schedule:

15gm Fuggle at first wort or as boil starts

25gm Fuggle at 10 minutes before flameout

25gm Fuggle at 5 minutes before flameout

25gm Fuggle at flameout

25gm Fuggle dry hop – at 3 days into fermentationOptional!

Yeast Pitch:

15-20°C Ideally 18°C and fermented to final gravity – expect 5-7 days.