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Well I tried this recipe I got on line a while back, a guy duplicated my favorite brew of all time Sam Adams honey porter. All went pretty well but the color was way light, more like a dark ale as opposed to a porter. Any suggestions? Or corrections.

Original recipe:
10# 2-row Klags malt
8 oz Crystal 90L malt
4 oz Choc. malt
8 oz Honey (last few mins. of boil)
1/2 tsp.Irish moss
1.5 oz Fuggles hop pellets (60 min.)
1/2 oz. Fuggles hop pellets (end of boil)
Wyeast 1098

Conversion with help from Byron Birch at my local supply house

6# light dry malt
8 oz. crystal 90L malt (mini mash)
4 oz. Choc. malt (mini mash)
rest of recipe same as above



Oh yeah, first to post here

I'd add about 3 ounces of Black Patent malt in addition to the chocolate malt and crystal.. Black Patent's color is around 525 srm. I just plugged the recipe into promash and 3 oz really did the trick on the color.
Sam Adams Honey Porter

A ProMash Recipe Report

Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (Gal): 5.00 Wort Size (Gal): 5.00
Total Grain (Lbs): 11.44
Anticipated OG: 1.059 Plato: 14.47
Anticipated SRM: 23.7
Anticipated IBU: 32.2
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70 %
Wort Boil Time: 60 Minutes


Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
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87.4 10.00 lbs. Pale Malt(2-row) America 1.036 2
4.4 0.50 lbs. Crystal 90L America 1.033 90
2.2 0.25 lbs. Chocolate Malt Great Britain 1.034 475
1.7 0.19 lbs. Black Patent Malt America 1.028 525
4.4 0.50 lbs. Honey 1.042 0

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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1.50 oz. Fuggle Whole 5.00 32.2 60 min.
0.50 oz. Fuggle Whole 5.00 0.0 0 min.


Yeast
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WYeast 1098 British Ale

Nice thanks! ! Cool program, heard of that need to invest me thinks

Hillbilly wrote:Nice thanks! ! Cool program, heard of that need to invest me thinks

Just goto http://www.promash.com/ and try it for free fully functional. Limited saves but by then you know you'll like it (or not).

I love Promash. It's one of few reasons I still keep my Windows machine running.