Vanilla Brown Porter - What do you think?

[Kerth]

7.25 lb Maris Otter
8 oz Brown
6 oz Crystal 85
6 oz Chocolate

Mash 155*

1 oz Kent Golding 5% - 90 min
1/2 oz Fuggle 5% - 15 min
1 ea Vanilla Bean - 5 min

Hard boil 90 min

London Ale - mid 60's

2 ea Vanilla Bean - Secondary

[turkeyjerky214]

In my vanilla porter, I use like 2# of Munich. Also, do some c40 and c120.


I'm personally not a fan of 90 minute hop additions so I would just up them and do it at 60, but that's just a personal preference.

Having brewed my vanilla porter a few times, I'd highly recommend using two vanilla beans and adding them after primary fermentation instead of during the boil.

[Lynux]

Here is the recipe for the Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter that won me a gold in the HHHC for your reference. I really love this beer.

Amount Item Type % or IBU
13 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 65.82 %
2 lbs 8.0 oz Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 12.66 %
1 lbs 8.0 oz Brown Malt (65.0 SRM) Grain 7.59 %
1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (120.0 SRM) Grain 5.06 %
8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 2.53 %
12.0 oz Chocolate Malt (450.0 SRM) Grain 3.80 %
8.0 oz Chocolate (Dingemans) (340.0 SRM) Grain 2.53 %
1.25 oz Magnum [13.10 %] (60 min) Hops 40.0 IBU
0.50 oz Mt. Hood [6.00 %] (10 min) Hops 2.7 IBU
2 Pkgs US-05 (Safale #US-05) Yeast-Ale

Add two scraped and quartered vanilla beans to secondary for 2 weeks. Add 1.5 cups of knob creek bourbon to keg.

Added 1.5 teaspoons chalk, 1/3 teaspoon calcium chloride, half teaspoon baking soda to mash.