Spellcaster

By Mick Harrison

Recipe is part of Recipe Index

BJCP 2021 Style English Porter

I normally brew my porters on a solid London Porter base (Fullers etc) but having tasted Andys beer for the on-line club tasting I fancied a change!
Brewed as a clone of Elusive's Spellbound but wanted a more sessionable beer so this has been 'detuned' a bit!

Awards

LAB Open 2023 (Hammerton Brewery, May 2023)

2nd - Porter and Stout table

Statistics

• Batch size - 40l
• IBU 25
• ABV 4.7%
• OG 1.048
• FG 1.012
• EBC 75.6 (dark for a porter)
• 48 litres into fermenter (over sparged!)

Ingredients

Water

Blackfield water is hard - Ca 115, Mg 38, Na99, So 17, Cl 40
NO CRS in hot liquor tank, but added 5gr Epsom salts and 8gr Calciuim chloride to the mash

Malt

• All Simpsons Malt as used by Elusive
• Low colour Pale Malt, 3 EBC, 7.36kg, 71.8%
• Brown Malt, 525 EBC, 1kg, 9/8%
• Crystal Dark, 267 EBC, 1kg, 9.8%
• Crystal Light, 104 EBC, 440gr, 4.3%
• Naked Oat Malt, 3 EBC, 220gr, 2.2%
• Chocolate Malt 1200 EBC, 220gr, 2.2%

Hops

• 50gr Target, 9% AA, 25 IBU, boil 75 mins

Yeast

Nottingham, 2 packets

Process

Mash

Single infusion mash, Full Body, Batch Sparge

Boil

Hops in at rolling boil for 60m mins
Protofloc added and boil for another 15 mins

Ferment

Rehydrate yeast and pitched at 20°C
Completed in 8 days including diacetyl rest