Ok, här kommer ett som ska vara orginalet, DC står för Dennis Conn som tydligen är lite av en hembryggarlegend i staterna, på Northern Brewer har han nästan 15000 inlägg på forumet så han är tydligen flitig..
DC´s Imperial Bourbon Vanilla Porter
Size: 18.93 L
Efficiency: 73.0%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Calories: 397.08 kcal per 16.0 fl oz
Original Gravity: 1.089 (1.060 - 1.090)
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Terminal Gravity: 1.022 (1.016 - 1.024)
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Color: 32.42 (17.0 - 30.0)
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Alcohol: 8.81% (5.5% - 9.5%)
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Bitterness: 33.7 (20.0 - 40.0)
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Ingredients:
4.99 kg Pale Malt(2-row)
0.68 kg Brown Malt
1.13 kg Munich Malt(light)
0.45 kg Crystal 120
0.23 kg Crystal 40L
0.57 kg Chocolate Malt
22.68 g Magnum (14.0%) - added during boil, boiled 60.0 min
14.17 g Goldings - E.K. (4.8%) - added during boil, boiled 10.0 min
1.0 ea WYeast 1056 Amercan Ale/Chico
Schedule:
Ambient Air: 21.1 °C
Source Water: 15.6 °C
Elevation: 6500 ft
01:00:00 Dough In - Liquor: 5.99 gal; Strike: Target: 67.8 °C
01:10:00 Sparge & Mash Out - Water: 3.5 gal; Target: 75.6 °C
Notes
Denny Conn posted on the B&V (12/06) that he uses 1.25# of Chocolate Malt, not 1/2#.
10 ml. Jim Beam to bottling bucket per pint.
For secondary, get 2 fresh, good quality vanilla beans...they're expensive, but get the best you can find. Spilt them lengthwise and scrape the seeds out of the pod. Chop the pod into a few pieces and add all the seed gunk and pods to secondary. Rack the beer on top of them. Taste after a week or so to see how the vanilla flavor develops. Let it get a little stronger than you think it should be since it's the first thing to fade in the beer. At bottling time, before adding priming sugar, pour several measured samples (2 or 4 oz.) of the beer and add a measured amount of Bourbon (I used Beam Black) to each sample. Taste and decide which one has the level of bourbon that suits your taste. Extrapolate that up to your full batch size and add to bottling bucket. I used the equivalent of 10 ml./pint. Yeah, I know, mixed measurements...
Jag körde på American AleII för jag hade inte testat den, och den var riktigt bra, flockade ordentligt och jäste ut fantastiskt. jag nöjde mig med en OG på 1.075 för annars funkade det inte att koka i min BM.. (även solen har sina fläckar)..
/Mattias