Brewing Porter

Coffee Porter 

6.6 lb Light Malt Extract

1 lb Carastan 30L malt

1 lb Coffee malt

1/2 lb Brown Malt

1.0 oz  Fuggle Hops @ 60 min

1.0 oz Fuggle Hops @ 10 min

Wyeast #1099 Whitbread Ale Yeast

This was a kit from the homebrew store that I received as a Christmas Gift.  The specialty malts were already milled and combined in a bag. 

 Split the specialty malt into 5 muslin bags for steeping

 Into the brewpot with 1.5 gallons water

 Steeped at 150 F for 30 minutes

 Santized the carboy and everything else while I was waiting. 

 Since the malt extract is like molasses, I heated it up for easier pouring. 

 Removed the steeped grain, saved it for the chickens. 

 Added the two cans of malt extract

 Put the hops in muslin bags, for adding at start of boil, and 10 minutes remaining. 

 Boiled for 60 minutes

 Into the sink for an ice bath

 I had 3 gallons of pre-boiled water that I put in the freezer to add to the wort to bring down to about 70 F .

 Readied the 6.5 gallon carboy and funnel. 

 After shaking up to aerate, removed a sample for measuring the original gravity. 

 Original Gravity of 1.050. 

 Pitched the yeast

 Airlock on, time to ferment.

 After a few days fermenting at about 65F, got a nice layer of krausen.