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Icky Baltic Porter (PM, steam lager style)

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 12:04 am
by mashani
Family out of town, brewing up a bunch. Wanted to use up the extra Aromatic malt. Figured it should sub fine for Munich in a Baltic Porter kind of thing. And since I've got tons of 75L and extra Special B, that went in it too. And old hops to use up. So...

So for 2.5 gallon batch:

1 hour oven mash of the below at 154:

1# Vienna
2/3# Aromatic Malt
1/4# British chocolate (470L)
1/4# 75L British Crystal
1/4# 120L Special B

Added 2.5# of Briess Golden Light DME

3/4oz of Magnum at @60 (my hops are old, so this is actually only going to give somewhere between 30-40 IBUs).

OG 1.067

I used S-23 yeast that I also had to use up. My temps are 1-2 degrees too warm for me to keep it below 59, so it's going to sort of be a Steam Lager too, but that's ok. S-23 does better too warm then too cold in my experience, so it will be fine.

Why is it icky? Because a borg friend here think porters are Icky. I figured I'd test his theory.

Re: Icky Baltic Porter (PM, steam lager style)

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 12:25 am
by Rebel_B
Great name! Let us know how it turns out.

Re: Icky Baltic Porter (PM, steam lager style)

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:15 am
by Inkleg
I can hear it now "Do you have any more of that Icky beer, I loved it". :rofl:

Re: Icky Baltic Porter (PM, steam lager style)

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 4:25 pm
by wollffy
IckyBrew for you know who.
I dont
But sounds quite tasty

Re: Icky Baltic Porter (PM, steam lager style)

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 2:18 am
by mashani
I bottled this at 1.017. Sample tasted nice, malty nose, and the bit of fruity esters from the warmer ferment with the yeast went well with the dark fruit from the crystal malts.