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The Deacn's Blackberry Porter
2 pints of fresh Blackberries, boiled for 2 minutes, then add 1/2 cup corn sugar. Mix and mash well, freeze for 1 week. Thaw the day before transferring to secondary. Rack beer onto thawed blackberries.
| Brewer: | DeacnBleu | Email: | deacnbleu@att.net | |||||
| Beer: | The Deacn's Blackberry Porter | Style: | Robust Porter | |||||
| Type: | Extract w/grain | Size: | 5 gallons | |||||
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Bitterness: | 3 IBU | |||||
| OG: | 1.047 | FG: | 1.010 | |||||
| Alcohol: | 4.7% v/v (3.7% w/w) | |||||||
| Water: | Filtered city water, luckily, our city water tastes just fine. | |||||||
| Grain: | .5 lb. Wheat malt .5 lb. American chocolate |
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| Steep: | Bring 3 qts. water to boil, remove from heat, steep grains for 45 minutes, sparge with 1 qt. 150° water. | |||||||
| Boil: | 60 minutes | SG 1.233 | 1 gallons | |||||
| 3.5 lb. Amber malt extract 2 lb. Dark dry malt extract |
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| Irish moss last 15 mins. | ||||||||
| Hops: | 1 oz. Mt. Hood (4.5% AA, 60 min.) | |||||||
| Yeast: | Danstar Windsor | |||||||
| Log: | Picked blackberries on 6/22/01, brewed on 6/23/01, transferred to secondary on 6/28/01 onto thawed blackberries. Kegged on 7/03/01. | |||||||
| Carbonation: | 2.2 volumes | Keg: 8.1 psi @ 38°F | ||||||
| Tasting: | Can taste the chocolate malt and although I have never been a big fan of fruit beers, the blackberries leave a very nice after taste. I think that the corn sugar with the blackberries has added a few percentage points to the expected alcohol content. So far, I'm very happy with this one. Any recomendations on a better yeast would be greatly appreciated. Next will be DeacnBleuBerry Beer!!! | |||||||
Recipe posted 07/05/01.
